They're slow walking remdesivir imo.

[triron]

Get it widely available already!

[SunSeeker]

1. Gilead hasn't donated to Trump I guess. nt

[SoonerPride]

2. It is being studied. We don't just dump drugs into people and hope.

[uponit7771]

3. !?!? remdesivir was an overt pump and dump by the same company who did it with Ebola ...

... and Giliead gladly tanked seeing they weren't going to make any money off of it anyway.

remdesivir was a huge pump and dump, criminal level

[greymattermom]

4. An encouraging animal trial was reported recently,

and there's a human trial ongoing to test earlier stages of the disease. So far, all of the data I've seen have been positive. Maybe the manufacturer is gearing up.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Hmm . . . remember the last big cure?

hydroxochloroquinine and zpak

It's killing people now. That's what happens when you skip steps in pushig new treatment for a new disease more quickly than the research can keep up.

It's in trials. Give it time.

[Hoyt]

6. Can't do that. That's another drug trump touted early on. Just saying.

I tend to agree with you, although we don’t know as much about it as the malaria, RA, Lupus drug, and I wouldn’t use it for mild cases because of that.

[Make7]

7. It's not FDA approved for treating anything. You want to just widely dispense an unapproved drug?

The cure might actually be worse than the disease.

The main reason there are so many regulations for FDA approval is because in the past many, many people have been killed and injured from drugs that were released under inadequate testing regulations.

[RockRaven]

8. I'll wait for GOOD evidence that something works -- in the manner it is alleged to work -- before

I call for it to be used in a widespread fashion.

[The Magistrate]

9. People Are Going To Have To Get Used, Sir

To the idea medical science has no remedy in hand for this. People who have lived their lives in the last half of the twentieth century and the start of this one are not used to that. By now even cancer may well be tamed if caught early enough. I have confidence something will be developed that can cope with this, but for now, we are facing what humans have faced for most of their existence --- the knowledge that some trifle, a cough, a fever, a small lesion or cut, may be the sign of death impending, with not a thing to ward it off....

[jberryhill]

10. Oh really?

After the pump, comes the dump.

What's your opinion worth?

https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/23/data-on-gileads-remdesivir-released-by-accident-show-no-benefit-for-coronavirus-patients/

The antiviral medicine remdesivir from Gilead Sciences failed to speed the improvement of patients with Covid-19 or prevent them from dying, according to results from a long-awaited clinical trial conducted in China. Gilead, however, said the data suggest a “potential benefit.”

A summary of the study results was inadvertently posted to the website of the World Health Organization and seen by STAT on Thursday, but then removed.

“A draft document was provided by the authors to WHO and inadvertently posted on the website and taken down as soon as the mistake was noticed. The manuscript is undergoing peer review and we are waiting for a final version before WHO comments,” said WHO spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic.