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Breaking: FDA approves Gilead‘s antiviral drug remdesivir as 1st COVID treatment.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:35 pm
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:35 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 3:36 pm
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:37 pm to GEAUXmedic
Trump was right again.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:40 pm to GEAUXmedic
Can I take off this stupid fricking mask now?
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:41 pm to GEAUXmedic
Still not tired of winning.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:42 pm to GEAUXmedic
Zero chance they allow testing west of Lafayette
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:42 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
Just for the record, this was the drug Fauci first touted when he said HCQ didn't work. the PT hated this drug. They said it was Fauci and big pharmas push
This post was edited on 10/22/20 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:43 pm to GEAUXmedic
Yet the data shows that it isn't very effective.
Follow the money. Nine members of the NIH panel are in bed with Gilead.
Follow the money. Nine members of the NIH panel are in bed with Gilead.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:44 pm to GEAUXmedic
It's been commonly used for months. Not exactly breaking news.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:47 pm to crazyLSUstudent
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:48 pm to Bmath
quote:Which 9 members? What does "in bed with" mean specifically?
Follow the money. Nine members of the NIH panel are in bed with Gilead
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:50 pm to Bmath
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Yet the data shows that it isn't very effective.
Follow the money. Nine members of the NIH panel are in bed with Gilead.
This. shite is garbage. 100% a money play by a corrupt system
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:50 pm to GEAUXmedic
Well shite. I heard some doctor on tv this morning saying it doesn’t work. I was like wth are you talking about??
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:53 pm to tiger91
He’d be correct. I get multiple calls a day switching people from 5 day courses to 10 day courses as their disease progresses worse while they are 3-4 days in on treatment. Total waste of money
Posted on 10/22/20 at 3:55 pm to WaydownSouth
So can we open stadiums up and have concerts now?
Posted on 10/22/20 at 4:00 pm to GEAUXmedic
Good luck to everyone who takes the trial run of this rushed medicine.
Enjoy the inevitable class action.
Enjoy the inevitable class action.
Posted on 10/22/20 at 4:00 pm to Jobu93
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Trump was right again.
I can see him now, working in the lab, late into the night...
"Eureka! Pence! Come quick! I've done it!"
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