FDA allows emergency use of remdesivir
to treat coronavirus patients
after promising study
Fox News,
by
Louis Casiano
&
James Rogers
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
5/1/2020 5:46:17 PM
President Trump announced Friday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of Gilead Science's experimental antiviral drug remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients after early results of a clinical study indicated the drug helps speed recovery.Trump announced the news at the White House alongside Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn. "FDA's emergency authorization of remdesivir, two days after the National Institutes of Health's clinical trial showed promising results, is a significant step forward in battling COVID-19
Reply 1 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/1/2020 6:05:23 PM (No. 397834)
Wait, we have to wait for the serum from Bill Gates. That was the plan.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/1/2020 6:21:30 PM (No. 397848)
Of course, hydroxychloroquine has had all kinds of positive results treating the virus, but it has been around for decades, and therefore, is inexpensive. I saw this touted on the front page of the Boston Globe.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MorningStar 5/1/2020 6:32:30 PM (No. 397859)
Gilead's new drug runs $900 to $1,000 a treatment. HCQ has a decades-old safety record, is very effective, and is inexpensive. I'd go with HCQ/Zith/Zinc. Plus, it has a 91.6% effectiveness. Don't mess with success!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 5/1/2020 6:37:18 PM (No. 397863)
I don't know if it's true but I just heard on the radio that hospitals in NY can no longer use Hydroxychloroquine in combination with the other drugs. Apparently, Dr. Fauci approves of this drug. I certainly hope that it works, but I do wonder why he was so down on a drug that had had very good results, especially when administered early. With all of this FBI malfeasance finally coming to the light, is it too far a stretch to ask who profits from this drug? Dr Fauci loves the new drug that lessens the virus duration by 3 days. He hated the drug combo with a 65 year track record and, according to many first hand reports, stopped the virus in its tracks.
The patent on Remdesivir won't expire until 2037 when a generic can be made available. Hydroxychloroquine is now available in generic form. Azithromycin, Doxycycline and Zinc are affordable.
Is all this Deep State stuff that's about to hit the fan just making me overly sceptical?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
marbles 5/1/2020 6:47:44 PM (No. 397867)
# 4 Fauci and friends will make money from Gileads drug. None to be made from HCQ +Az + Z. It always about the money.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
agrunt 5/1/2020 6:51:35 PM (No. 397870)
I think it would be wise to follow the money trail on this. I think that at least some of the money will find in the pockets of Gates and China.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 5/1/2020 7:16:13 PM (No. 397884)
So now, Remdesivir and HCQ have both been given emergency use authorization to treat COVID. This is a bigger deal for Remdesivir than it was for HCQ, for a couple of reasons.
First, prior to now, Remdesivir was not approved for use in any country -- unlike HCQ, which, as an approved drug for other conditions, could be prescribed off-label for COVID. (The NIH only recommended against combining it with azithromycin.)
Second, this approval is based on the evidence of a controlled randomized clinical trial, so our degree of belief that the drug really is effective (even if only to a limited degree) should be pretty high. Until the HCQ trials have been completed. the general public can't have quite that same level of confidence about HCQ's effectiveness.
I just don't see any reason to be disgruntled over this news.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/1/2020 7:38:27 PM (No. 397898)
Follow the Money------follow the Money---follow the Money. At 100 times the cost why Remdesivir.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/1/2020 7:42:10 PM (No. 397903)
Good. I bought stock in this company when the flu began growing in March.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jlw509 5/1/2020 8:07:48 PM (No. 397912)
I have rheumatoid arthritis, have been taking Plaquenil every day for years. So have literally hundreds of thousands of other RA and Lupus patients. Needs a prescription of course (don't take it in high doses or if you have cardiac issues) but it's one of the best-understood, safest drugs on the market. I just refilled my prescription. 66 cents per pill. I take one a day, just like a multivitamin.
You know how many are called for in the HCQ-Zinc-Zpack regimen? One a day. For 5 days. If you do it within days of the onset of symptoms, it wipes out the coronavirus.
Can you get better than that? Why the heck isn't this THE solution? Are people crazy?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/1/2020 8:23:13 PM (No. 397929)
I would like to know if Fauci or anyone in the CDC/NIH (or their wives or children) has a financial interest in remdesivir
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