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USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
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Re: USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my friends is an anaesthetist dealing with Covid patients day in day out in India. She works for a Government hospital and they started trying Remdesivir 3 days ago. She said all three patients that they have given the drug to have died of arrest - she does insist though that its not because of the drug but she was saying that it isn't improving things if the patient is in late stages of Covid.
This is a worthless 2nd hand hearsay anecdote. Remdesivir has a minor beneficial impact when delivered VERY EARLY. No need to spread FUD when there's clinical data available.
Can you point me to the results from the clinical trial?
I wasn't trying to spread FUD. I did state that the arrests weren't because of the drug.
Re: USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
#123The wonder drug that supposedly can cut two whole days off a case! Wow I am surely sad that MY goverment didn't hoard all those pills, I mean they are only 2000USD per treatment...
First the US buys all the chloroquin, now this. Next they will come for all our sugar pills too!
Re: USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my friends is an anaesthetist dealing with Covid patients day in day out in India. She works for a Government hospital and they started trying Remdesivir 3 days ago. She said all three patients that they have given the drug to have died of arrest - she does insist though that its not because of the drug but she was saying that it isn't improving things if the patient is in late stages of Covid.
This is a worthless 2nd hand hearsay anecdote. Remdesivir has a minor beneficial impact when delivered VERY EARLY. No need to spread FUD when there's clinical data available.
Yes a minor impact, that doesn't really show that it saves lives at all. Just that generally those who take the drug early on are out of bed a couple of days earlier than others. Not really worth 2000USD a pop. Sounds like a big pharma scam to me. Same with the Chloroquin
Re: USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
#125I thought studies include Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquine showed negative results. Why would we be buying up Remdesivir when Dexamethasone is the new hot drug with good clinical results?
Remdesivir reduces hospital stay but does not reduce mortality. It costs a lot and is hard to make.
Dexamethasone is cheap, easy to make, and reduces mortality. We don't want remdesivir, which is why you're not seeing regulatory action to seize control of the rights.
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/first-drug-to-reduce-mortality-i...
Re: USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a worthless 2nd hand hearsay anecdote. Remdesivir has a minor beneficial impact when delivered VERY EARLY. No need to spread FUD when there's clinical data available.
>Remdesivir has a minor beneficial impact when delivered VERY EARLY. There's still a couple of problems though: * It has to be delivered by IV drip * It's in short supply * It's expensive Which means that realistically, the only way to get a positive impact from it would be to send high-risk patients who were very likely to have just been exposed to the hospital for the injection. Even then, the risk-value propositio…
It’ll be a means for the rich to lessen their pain. Nothing more. Let’s be honest.
No hospital would take you in on slight symptoms. The drug alone costs $3,000+, it’s basically US-only and thus needs to be administered there, which will end up costing about as much again.
See the top 0.01% hold some remdesivir in their mansions for their private physician to administer.
Re: USA buys up world stock of remdesivir
#1271. remdesivir is not a cure for COVID and not as valuable to the rest of the world. We need vaccine 2. there is plenty of generic remdesivir in India
2. there is plenty of generic remdesivir in India How does this go together with the claim that "Remdesivir is patented by California-based Gilead"?
Fun Fact: it's perfectly legal to photocopy a textbook for educational purposes in India. Supreme Court threw away the court case when somebody tried to sue them.