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Did they stockpile remdesivir in the same quantities, given its actual efficacy?
by osrec 6y ago
Did they stockpile remdesivir in the same quantities, given its actual efficacy?
- dumbfoundded 6y agoNo, President Trump didn't hold any shares of the manufacturers. The company behind its production is donating its stockpile to the US Government: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/03/entire-stockpile-of-coronavirus-treatment-remdesivir-donated-to-government-says-ceo/#6c7576ea725f https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/05/03/...
- bioinformatics 6y agoYou only watch CNN too?
- makomk 6y agoWrong mainstream news outlet. The stupid conspiracy theory about Trump pushing hydroxychloroquine because he owned shares in its manufacturer was mostly the New York Times' doing. (This lead to the rather unusual spectacle of Snopes debunking a nonsensical online conspiracy theory pushed by the NYT... and there was plenty wrong with it, from the utterly miniscule size of Trump's indirect shareholding via a mutual fund to the low amount of money to be made from it to the fact that apparently that company was no longer selling it in the US anyway, some of which the NYT were clearly aware of.)
- bioinformatics 6y agoremdesivir is a quite new drug and really hard to manufacture. Also HCQ is a very old drug, created on WWII and really easy to manufacture.
- adventured 6y agoThey're very different contexts. Gilead doesn't have such a large stockpile or production capability for Remdesivir. Everything Gilead had was turned over to the government. From May 3rd: "Gilead CEO says remdesivir will be available to patients this week: ‘We’ve donated the entire supply’" "Gilead expects to produce more than 140,000 rounds of its 10-day treatment regimen by the end of May and anticipates it can make 1 million rounds by the end of this year." https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/03/gilead-ceo-says-remdesivir-available-to-coronavirus-patients-this-week-weve-donated-the-entire-supply.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/03/gilead-ceo-says-remdesivir-a...
- mc32 6y agoThat one is difficult to manufacture, so the effort necessary would be much higher.
- ars 6y agoBetween 2006 and 2014 we spent FAR FAR more money stockpiling Tamiflu which does absolutely nothing. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-roche-hldg-novartis-search/stockpiles-of-roche-tamiflu-drug-are-waste-of-money-review-finds-idUSBREA390EJ20140410 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-roche-hldg-novartis-searc...
- pnutjam 6y agoDid they stockpile PPE? It's proven effective for this pandemic and many other situations; however the feds let the stockpile dwindle for no good reason.
- thu2111 6y agoI thought the jury was still out on masks at least. The WHO keeps changing its mind about them, as do other governments.
- pnutjam 6y agoIt's not, nobody is changing their mind. There were some efforts to reserve masks for front line medical workers. That muddied the issue, but masks protect you from spreading a sickness you may now know you have and provide a minimal amount of protection from catching covid-19.
- thu2111 6y agoNobody is changing their mind? That's obviously nonsense. There have been so many reversals it made the news. https://nypost.com/2020/06/06/who-reverses-position-on-face-masks-as-coronavirus-cases-climb/ https://nypost.com/2020/06/06/who-reverses-position-on-face-... Different authorities can't even agree: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-offer-conflicting-advice-masks-expert-tells-us/story?id=70958380 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/cdc-offer-conflicting-advice-m... The mask situation is absurd, one more failure on top of so many others for the global health establishment.