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Remdesivir is Ebola treatment so accessibility is not widespread.
. This is what we were hoping to see, if the other hospitals with phase 3 concur look for cross company licensing to ramp up this iv drug.
 
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Wuhan Institute of Virology (China) Sought to Patent Gilead’s Remdesivir

https://www.trialsitenews.com/...-gileads-remdesivir/

Gilead’s experimental drug remdesivir shows possibly the most promise of all experimental COVID-19 vaccine prospects as evidenced by China’s reported possible move, via the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to patent the drug to treat coronavirus. The experimental drug isn’t licensed or approved anywhere yet, but it surely looks promising. Both remdesivir and chloroquine show promise, according to Chinese authorities.

The Promise of Remdesivir

According to a report from IPRdaily, Gilead’s Remdesivir, a new antiviral drug of nucleotide analogs’ group, was initially introduced by Gilead to fight the Ebola virus, but the results there were not successful. However, at one point The New England Journal of Medicine promulgated that Remdesivir could challenge the brand-new coronavirus, as at some point an American patient with 2019-nCoV was prescribed the drug and doctors observed after about a week conditions improved. NEJM did advocate the use of randomly controlled trials to produce more evidence.

Chinese researchers observed that Remdesivir and chloroquine, a malaria treatment, could have an impact in slowing down the coronavirus.

The Move for a Patent Application

On January 21, it was reported that China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences filed a patent for commercial use of remdesivir in China. Also involved is the Military Medicine Institute of that nation. They sought to secure this patent “out of national interest” and noted they were not interested in enforcement should foreign pharma companies seek to collaborate in China to stop the pandemic. An IP attorney based in Shanghai, China observed that the Wuhan Institute of Virology would be wise to secure approval from the drug’s maker and owner—Gilead.

Remdesivir-based Clinical Trials in China

As TrialSite News has reported, Remdesivir is currently an experimental drug in use in at least a couple clinical trial programs in China. In one clinical trial, Jin Yin-tan Hospital in WuHan and others are conducting a study sponsored by Capital Medical University and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences for up to 308 patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms. In another study concerning patients with severe COVID-19 conditions, Capital Medical University is sponsoring another study led by professor Bin Cao.

According to one report, the Chinese Healthcare Department has selected the Friendship Hospital in Beijing for conducting an additional study, including one with 270 coronavirus patients.

Conclusion

It could be deemed a provocative move for the local Wuhan institute to attempt to patent the Gilead drug without working with them. Remdesivir currently has entered China via clinical trials for patients with novel coronavirus. According to reports, the Northern California-based biotech has distributed at least enough doses for 500 patients—they are purportedly ramping up for more supply in case the clinical trials fail. Gilead’s chief medical officer reports that Remdesivir is being tested in at least two clinical trials in China.


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If Gileads drug proves an effective antiviral this will have a huge psychological lift for this country. Production of the drug along with testing will probably dictate a timetable to return to normal.
 
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Meanwhile, our Gov in Washington State has increased his estimate from 950 inmates to be released this week to 1,100. They sent out a list of names of those to be released which includes their DOC number. Doesn't include anything about why they were in prison. Perhaps they should just put 'Misunderstood' next to their name. Im sure they were there for public intoxication or something.

Probably wont be any real increase in crime...
 
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Pleased to report the Change.Org recall petition
(For what its worth) for Michigan's evil queen has reached 268K+.


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Meanwhile, our Gov in Washington State has increased his estimate from 950 inmates to be released this week to 1,100. They sent out a list of names of those to be released which includes their DOC number. Doesn't include anything about why they were in prison. Perhaps they should just put 'Misunderstood' next to their name. Im sure they were there for public intoxication or something.

Probably wont be any real increase in crime...

If you have someone local or of interest otherwise you might try navigating this.

https://www.doc.wa.gov/information/inmate-search/


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Governor Parsons today said Missouri will begin a return to some normalcy May 3rd. The more populated counties will return at a more measured pace than the others.

That's about two weeks from now. About damn time.



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Well, well, well... Roll Eyes

Cuomo Extends Coronavirus Shutdown Order to May 15:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...new-york-update.html


You should've been able to see this coming from a mile away.
When that date gets closer, they'll extend it again.

They can't do it any other way or people are going to flip out very quickly.
They're trying to keep the herd under control.




 
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The masks restrictions are a joke.

Was out getting stuff today and seeing all kinds of mask failures.
Worn under the nose, only covering part of the nose, tight at the top of the nose and hanging down, home made, poorly fit, etc.

Local grocery store is requiring delivery drivers to wear masks to drop off products.
If you don't have a mask, they'll sell you an N95 mask for $5.00

Some had their own, some bought masks and some said fuck it and dropped the product anyway. A few of them asked if customers were required to wear mask? Answer, no. Then why must I wear one?

I'm happy to hear some of them refused to wear/buy the masks.

This shit is out of control and is getting worse, day by day.




 
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Link for above:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/...onding-to-treatment/
Dammit! Is there anyone with even a modicum of curiosity and journalist abilities looking into this. It is kind of important after all.

"We’ve only had two patients perish,” said Kathleen Mullane, the University of Chicago infectious disease specialist overseeing the remdesivir studies for the hospital."

Really? Great news that the other 113 recovered and I hope this drug is the cure we need, but what was different about the two who died? How old were they? Did they have comorbidities that played a significant role in their deaths? Did someone accidentally trip over the cord to their respirators? 'Or', is there a group of yet unidentified people for which this drug doesn't work? Come on dude, throw me bone will ya and ask the follow up questions.


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If Gileads drug proves an effective antiviral this will have a huge psychological lift for this country. Production of the drug along with testing will probably dictate a timetable to return to normal.
Forgive me, but didn't you (or maybe someone else above) note this an an IV drug? As such it wouldn't be much use to the folks who acquire symptoms but aren't sick enough to be hospitalized (i.e. the vast majority of cases), correct? So this is only meant for the most aggressive, hospitalized, cases, right?
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Well, well, well... Roll Eyes

Cuomo Extends Coronavirus Shutdown Order to May 15:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0...new-york-update.html


You should've been able to see this coming from a mile away.
When that date gets closer, they'll extend it again.

They can't do it any other way or people are going to flip out very quickly.
They're trying to keep the herd under control.
Yeah, but I think Cuomo is playing a dangerous game. As other states reopen and the world doesn't collapse, he's going to find it harder and harder to keep New York shut down.


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If New York had a lot more cases than a lot of other states, wouldn't keeping it closed down while other states reopen would minimize the risk those other states would have to face by reopening?
 
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China's 'seventh domain' bio warfare focus boosts coronavirus suspicions, says expert

https://justthenews.com/world/...irus-suspicions-says

In a podcast interview for John Solomon Reports, scholar and advisor to President Trump on China policy Michael Pillsbury discussed the origin of the novel coronavirus and where China stands today as a threat and rival to the U.S.

Pillsbury, whose 2015 book "The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace American as the Global Superpower," changed top officials’ understanding of American-Chinese relations, believes China has long been ramping up their military and intelligence operations, such that they have now surpassed the space and cyber warfare efforts of the United States by several key benchmarks.

“The schedule this year is that [China] will launch twice as many satellites as we do,” said Pillsbury.

Perhaps most alarmingly, Pillsbury warned of an area of warfare development that he says China calls “the seventh domain.”

The seventh domain refers to biological warfare, which Pillsbury says includes “bio weapons” and “genetically tuned weapons that can attack only a certain kind of ethnic group.”

The Biological Warfare Convention is a treaty signed by 183 nations globally, including China and the United States, stipulating that no participating nation will use or maintain biological weapons, aside from samples.

However, Pillsbury points out that several prominent Chinese generals have written books about the seventh domain being the next wave of warfare technology, and in the time since those books were published, one general has been made the head of China’s National Defense University, and the other is now the vice director of their Academy of Military Science.

All of this “adds to the suspicion about the coronavirus experiments in Wuhan,” says Pillsbury.

Adding further to those suspicions are the teams of Chinese scientist who, according to Pillsbury, wrote extensively, even boastfully, in world-renowned medical journals about their research on the coronavirus and its relationship to the genome structure of bats.

“Now, China's trying to take all that back," Pillsbury said. "They're trying to say no, we never really experimented with the virus. We didn't culture new strains of it in the laboratory. But the problem with that is their scientists have already published these articles, and they're rather easy to find online.”


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https://www.foxnews.com/world/...f-virus-dead-by-1290

Translation: We’ve been lying about the numbers all along so we’re going to increase the number of deaths to make our lies more believable even though it’s still nowhere near the truth.


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Translation: We’ve been lying about the numbers all along so we’re going to increase the number of deaths to make our lies more believable even though it’s still nowhere near the truth.


my thoughts exactly

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The opportunity for meddling is far, far worse than the virus. Now hoping the reaction to the Dems bullshit will be massive and legendary. Or we risk a real rupture.




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https://www.foxnews.com/world/...f-virus-dead-by-1290

Translation: We’ve been lying about the numbers all along so we’re going to increase the number of deaths to make our lies more believable even though it’s still nowhere near the truth.


my thoughts exactly

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If the Chinese are willing to "admit" an increase of deaths of 50% you can BET the actual number is exponentially higher.




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Regarding the inmates being released, I am curious to see how all of the state and private prisons handle this.

My good friend is a regional nursing surpervisor over multiple prisons (not sure how many, but I think at least a half dozen) in FL. Generally she just oversees nursing staff, handles audits, etc. Sometimes she visits the site, sometimes she works from home.

I spoke to her last night and she told me she is working 12-14 hours per day, 7 days per week, all at various sites. She comes home each night to basically shower and sleep.

She said staffing is becoming a real issue. Nurses are not coming in, saying they do not feel safe, or they had contact with a positive and they are self quarantining, or they are leaving for more lucrative positions.
 
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KIRK: One Governor Has Risen Above The Coronavirus Hysteria And Is Defending The Constitution

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is one of a few state governors who have not yet placed citizens under a stay-at-home order in response to the current outbreak. Not only has she not placed the order, she has been outspoken in her contention that doing so would stand against everything America is supposed to stand for. She sees her decision as empowering individuals to take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and their families.

She is also taking an aggressive position on the use of hydroxychloroquine in treating the virus, placing her ahead of many other state governors.

As a result, on Monday, Governor Noem received about the highest praise any good American could when she was attacked in the pages of the Washington Post. The Post used the occasion of an outbreak of the virus at South Dakota’s Smithfield Foods, a pork producer located in Sioux Falls, as an opportunity to attack the governor’s non-conformance. More than 300 workers at the facility have now tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus.

For anyone just learning of the story, that might give you pause to think that the governor should have locked down the state after all.

There are two problems with that conclusion. The first being South Dakota, a very rural state, has fewer than 1,000 reported cases of the virus (10th lowest in the nation), meaning the outbreak at Smithfield Foods accounts for nearly one-third of all statewide cases. The other problem, as was pointed out in The Federalist, is that since the pork plant is an “essential industry,” the workers would have been there even with a lockdown!

Of the 988 cases reported in South Dakota as of this wiring, nearly 800 are reported in the county where the plant is located. This makes the South Dakota experience with the virus one of the most localized and minimized in the entire country. This is despite the fact that while much of the nation has been locked down for at least three weeks, South Dakota has remained open.

Governor Noem has been standing firm against the mob and their chosen talking heads on mainstream and social media, that have been demanding obedience to the collective “wisdom” of the collectivists, the “elites” and the “experts.” In a time when big government has taken control of almost everything (from fishing rights, to buying garden seeds, to traveling to a relative’s home) in most places, Governor Noem has courageously looked the mob in the eye and said, “No.”

They don’t like to hear “no.” They aren’t used to hearing “no.”

One of the principal differences between Republicans and Democrats is supposed to be that Democrats favor government intervention in nearly every aspect of our lives, while Republicans almost universally say they prefer limited government and individual rights. They say that, but these past few weeks prove that only a few of them mean it.

Governor Noem means it and she isn’t apologizing for it.

There is an important distinction to be made in my support of the governor over her refusals to lock down the state. I am not suggesting that no leader should have ordered any lockdown, for any period of time, anywhere in the country. What I am suggesting is that in the particular case of South Dakota there was and is no reason to order a lockdown.

If Governor Noem had caved in to the pressure of the national digital mob it would have been strictly for the purpose of saving face — for being liked. She could have done it to try and avoid criticism. To that point, I’m sure the governor knows that you can’t satisfy the insatiable. Most politicians, especially Republicans, cower when the media puts them in their crosshairs. Governor Noem is showing no such signs of cowardice. She is, seemingly, the rarest of all things in American politics — the real deal.

I’m sure the governor isn’t doing any of this to receive national recognition, but thanks to the Washington Post and others, she’s getting it anyway. What they undoubtedly intended as a hit piece, will be perceived by at least half of the country as a badge of honor. In fact, when her time as governor is concluded, should she give serious consideration to seeking higher office, I believe she would be rewarded for her bravery and dedication to the Constitution. I for one hope she does consider it.

To borrow from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, “Some governors are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” I am not sure which best applies to Governor Kristi Noem, but at least one, if not all, certainly does.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/0...ng-the-constitution/



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WHO recommends limiting access to alcohol

Believe it may increase chances of catching the ‘vid.

Oopsie.



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