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Comparing different approaches to Covid-19 containment | 56 comments (56 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Funny, because it's true. (none / 1)
by Cat on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 03:49:33 PM EST
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US press corps gearing NIAID competitive ebola marketing strat.
Uncle Sam wants YOU! to enroll in Gilead's floor wax Phase 3 living lab

China may be keeping coronavirus data for commercial gain: Trump adviser

"One of the reasons that they may not have let us in [BWAH!] and given us the data [?] on this virus early, is they're racing to get a vaccine and they think this is just a competitive business race, it's a business proposition so that they can sell the vaccines to the world," Navarro told Fox Business Network.

"But we're going to beat them [!]. We're going to beat them because of President Trump's leadership. We're going to beat them because HHS has already got a five-company horse race [!]," said Navarro, referring to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


archived abnormal psych, projections
Wed Jan 29th, 2020
Sat May 12th, 2018
"It was not possible to collect biological samples from people who received the vaccine in order to analyse their immune response."
by Cat on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 04:15:06 PM EST
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technical expertise

by Cat on Sat May 2nd, 2020 at 04:40:00 PM EST
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Trump wants to deliver 300 million doses of coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. Is that even possible?
Six: The number of rhesus macaque monkeys inoculated with single doses of the Oxford vaccine in March at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratory.

elements of a typical Harper's Index

by Cat on Sun May 3rd, 2020 at 01:54:38 AM EST
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FDA | Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) Of Remdesivir  For Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Not a lot of people have taken remdesivir.  Serious and unexpected side effects may happen.

like hydroxycholoroquine, but not

by Cat on Sun May 3rd, 2020 at 03:32:58 AM EST
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One notable difference between the two: hydroxychloroquine is in the public domain, Remdesivir may bring a lot of money to GILD shareholders. This may impact the PR efforts in the corporate media.
by Bernard (bernard) on Sun May 3rd, 2020 at 03:37:43 PM EST
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Re: Funny, because it's true. (4.00 / 3)
ahem.

"Remdesivir" (brand name of licensed USAMRID patent) appeared in the "public domain" ostensibly to treat ebola in 2014 and again 2018 to present, I might have mentioned more than once.

Neither it nor hydroxycholorquine (compound generic) is approved by FDA for treatment of COVID-19. And both are EAU authorized by FDA for ("off-label") treatment of COVID-9, cover-story, clinical trial of "investigational" (formerly known as "experimental") drug. NIAID's trial design (linked above) is suspiciously comprehensive and detailed, given purported inexperience with this "biologic" drug's active ingredients, forensic disposition, and therapeutic efficacy.

FDA's public notice alerts prospective trial-subjects and parents [?!] to known and unspecified side-effects that may occur with application. While such notice does not represent an informed consent agreement, I note with interest that the US Congress is preparing to indemnify any and all commercial establishments from tort claims relating SARS-COv-2 infection to exposure on premises. One several "trial balloons" floated by press in last three weeks, U.S. Republicans push for coronavirus lawsuit immunity for business, to which no opposition has appeared.

by Cat on Sun May 3rd, 2020 at 05:31:44 PM EST
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May Day And The Other Government - TPM
Part of the myth of the American identity is the extreme loathing of government. Somewhere in our history, government came to mean, specifically, the state. Private government, or the private sector, was positively not the government. The idea of private government, i.e. an institution that controls a large portion of our lives, has never been more important than it is now.

In "Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It)," Elizabeth Anderson discusses at length how the free market, as imagined by 18th and 19th century thinkers such as Adam Smith and Thomas Paine, was supposed to be a "levelling" force that gave more liberty to individuals. They imagined a society comprised mostly of people who worked for themselves, or companies that were quite small. Smith's famous pin factory in which he explained his theory of division of labor had 10 people and it was thought to be large. The massive corporations of today and the power they exert do not reflect that vision.

by Bernard (bernard) on Sun May 3rd, 2020 at 08:24:25 PM EST
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hmm, yes, well, file in "most ignorant" or between preserved letters by the sainted gentleman farmer, Tho. Jefferson.

#WhereIsOSHA is not trending, and @ewarren is flogging another plan for a plan, billed as the "Essential Workers Bill of Rights" notwithstanding the imprimatur of random "Black or African American" clergy and URGENCY of enforcing OBSCURE provisions of 29 U.S.C., one might suppose.

by Cat on Mon May 4th, 2020 at 12:41:07 AM EST
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US government will decide where remdesivir goes amid coronavirus outbreak, drugmaker says
remdesivir was found to shorten the duration of illness [by 30%!] in patients with severe COVID-19, but it had no statistically significant effect on whether patients died.
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Gilead has donated 1.5 million vials of the drug, O'Day said, which amounts to between 100,000 and 200,000 treatment courses, depending on how long patients take it.

"This donation will be made available to patients here in America in the United States and across the world, as other regulatory decisions are taken for those countries," he said.
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In a press release on Friday, Gilead said its goal is to produce at least 500,000 treatment courses by October and more than a million by December.

The FDA-authorized drug is infused through an IV, and its use is limited to hospitalized patients with severe disease. But O'Day said Gilead is looking at other formulations of remdesivir too -- including an inhaled version that could be given outside of the hospital.

by Cat on Mon May 4th, 2020 at 01:47:40 AM EST
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Provisional Death Counts for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), w/e 2 May 2020
CDC numerology, Classification and Its Consequences
by Cat on Mon May 4th, 2020 at 12:26:29 AM EST
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Comparing different approaches to Covid-19 containment | 56 comments (56 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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