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Fun fact: You cannot get emergency FDA approval for a vaccine (Remdesivir) if another effective drug exists (HCQ).
by Fjolsvith 6y ago
Fun fact: You cannot get emergency FDA approval for a vaccine (Remdesivir) if another effective drug exists (HCQ).
- leoh 6y ago>Fun fact: You cannot get emergency FDA approval for a vaccine (Remdesivir) if another effective drug exists (HCQ). Remdesivir is not a vaccine, it is an anti-viral, which is not the same thing. Moreover, the FDA is not going to block emergency approval for a vaccine with radically greater efficacy than an approved medicine used in an off-label manner. There are no approved drugs for COVID-19. There drugs approved for other illnesses that are used in an _off-label_ manner for COVI-19.
- djaque 6y agoFirstly, Remdesivir isn't a vaccine. Second, there is no magic cure. I just took another look at controlled trials of OH-Chloroquine and the latest science says its effects on patient outcomes are small when they exist at all.
- casefields 6y agoOP was taking the NYT method such as in this article about a possible vaccine: >The goal is to prevent haphazard or inequitable distribution of a treatment or vaccine when there isn’t enough to go around. Such a system has already been used in allocations of remdesivir, the first drug shown to be effective against the coronavirus. >“This is all very new,” said Dr. Douglas White, an ethicist and vice chairman of the department of critical medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, which began using a weighted lottery last month to distribute remdesivir. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/health/coronavirus-vaccine-allocation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/health/coronavirus-vaccin... It's quite easy to see how the jump to vaccine can be made when they really meant treatment.