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Breaking: FDA approves Gilead‘s antiviral drug remdesivir as 1st COVID treatment.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:34 pm
FDA approves Gilead‘s antiviral drug remdesivir as a COVID treatment.
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FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the antiviral drug Veklury® (remdesivir) for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. As an antiviral drug, Veklury works to stop replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Previously authorized by the FDA for emergency use to treat COVID-19, Veklury is now the first and only approved COVID-19 treatment in the United States. The drug is now widely available in hospitals across the country, following early investments to rapidly expand manufacturing capacity to increase supply.
In the United States, Veklury is indicated for adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older and weighing at least 40 kg) for the treatment of COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. Veklury should only be administered in a hospital or in a healthcare setting capable of providing acute care comparable to inpatient hospital care. Veklury is contraindicated in patients who are allergic to Veklury or any of its components; please see below for additional Important Safety Information for Veklury.
This approval is based on three randomized controlled trials including the recently published, final results of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) double blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 ACTT-1 trial, which showed that treatment with Veklury resulted in clinically meaningful improvements across multiple outcome assessments compared with placebo in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. Based on the strength of these data, Veklury has become a standard of care for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.
This post was edited on 10/22/20 at 3:37 pm
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:35 pm to GEAUXmedic
Fauci approve$.
This post was edited on 10/22/20 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:38 pm to GEAUXmedic
This should've been done way earlier. My wife is a Veterinarian and talked about this back in March/April whenever shite was bad. As typical, government bureaucracy slows things down.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:41 pm to Eli Goldfinger
Trump should issue an Executive Order declaring Covid a national emergency and stating that Gilead can only charge the cost of producing Remdesivir plus 10%. At the end of the Executive Order, Trump can make a notation saying "frick You Anthony Fauci - You’re not gonna profit off of your failure.”
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:41 pm to LSUSUPERSTAR
They've been using it for months already under emergency authorization.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:42 pm to GEAUXmedic
Wasnt there JUST a study released where Remdesivir didn’t really help all that much?
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:42 pm to GEAUXmedic
Gilead is thrilled to have finally found a disease their patented until 2037, ~$1000 per trratment drug sort of works on!
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:43 pm to GEAUXmedic
Ok. Let’s get back to normal. Follow the science and all that jazz.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:44 pm to MMauler
quote:How would he profit off of Gilead's drug?
"frick You Anthony Fauci - You’re not gonna profit off of your failure.”
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:46 pm to GEAUXmedic
We've turned the corner.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:47 pm to GaDawg9977
If true, it shows you that the FDA doesn’t give a damn about efficacy as long as it is lining someone’s pockets.
This drug showed literally minimum effect.
This drug showed literally minimum effect.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:51 pm to Geauxgurt
I took it. Sure seemed like plasma with Covid antibodies was my saving grace.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:53 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:
This drug showed literally minimum effect
I'm sure you will provide information to back up your claim.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 4:05 pm to GEAUXmedic
Looking forward to their commercials for this drug. They can use Trump as a spokesman:
"Makes you strong like bull. Look at me...3 days after taking it, I was back running the free world and kicking butt!"
"Makes you strong like bull. Look at me...3 days after taking it, I was back running the free world and kicking butt!"
Posted on 10/22/20 at 4:06 pm to GEAUXmedic
Fauci is about to make BANK
Posted on 10/22/20 at 4:08 pm to GEAUXmedic
I assume dems won’t be taking it because Trump endorsed it.
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