BBC: Coronavirus: US buys nearly all of Gilead's Covid-19 drug remdesivir
The US is buying nearly all the next three months' projected production of Covid-19 treatment remdesivir from US manufacturer Gilead.
The US health department announced on Tuesday it had agreed to buy 500,000 doses for use in American hospitals.
Tests suggest remdesivir cuts recovery times, though it is not yet clear if it improves survival rates.
Gilead did sign a licensing deal in May for production outside the US but it is still in its early stages.
"President Trump has struck an amazing deal to ensure Americans have access to the first authorised therapeutic for Covid-19," Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in a statement.
A course of treatment in the US will cost $2,340 (£1,900).
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WNU Editor: The world is shocked that the U.S. has bought the world's supply of Remdesivir. LOL. I am not.
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I hope that EU is strongly, very strongly shocked for their resting life! This self centered era was just telling "if we have a vaccine we will keep it only for EU". So. EU have just what it deserve and I' happy with that.
Trump is decisive. He does not want to see any deaths on his watch. He cannot readily prevent Cuomo and others from being grandma killers without legal and political warfare, but barring that he has moved any mountain in the way.
Agreed anon. He's no obamma.
Also bought it for next year. "Allies" aren't happy.
t a White House meeting with fellow Republicans, President Donald Trump said, without evidence, that the coronavirus “is going to go away without a vaccine.” While it’s impossible to predict the future, experts say it’s unlikely that the virus will simply go away.
His son Eric went even further in a May 16 interview, claiming that coronavirus “will magically all of a sudden go away” after the November election.
“It is completely fanciful and not evidence-based to state that SARS-CoV-2 will ‘go away’ without a vaccine,” said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, referring to the full name of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. “There is no basis for this statement.”
“It is a theoretical possibility that the virus could go away permanently with a large uncontrolled epidemic everywhere in the world, leading to depletion of susceptible people and permanent immunity,” Lipsitch added in an email.
But, he said, that series of events would be “exceedingly unlikely,” since no human coronavirus is known to elicit permanent immunity, and because countries will maintain a pool of people susceptible to the virus for a long time, allowing for reintroductions of the virus.
To state that the virus will go away without a vaccine is “baseless,” Lipsitch said, and to consider it as one of the top scenarios for policy planning is “foolish.”
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, also objected to Trump’s claim that the virus would “go away” without a vaccine.
“No, this virus isn’t going to go away,” he said. “Hopefully, over time, we’ll learn to live with it and we’ll be able to reduce the risk of transmission. But it’s going to stay as a background problem in the country and around the world until we have a vaccine.”
According to Dave Wasserman, the U.S. House editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, the Republican Party is losing members of Congress at a breakneck pace.
“Fact: when President Trump took office in January 2017, there were 241 Republicans in the House. Since then, 115 (48%) have either retired, resigned, been defeated or are retiring in 2020,” he wrote on Twitter.
Fact: when President Trump took office in January 2017, there were 241 Republicans in the House.
Since then, 115 (48%) have either retired, resigned, been defeated or are retiring in 2020.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 1, 2020
“Keep in mind: most of the Rs likeliest to speak out *against* Trump were replaced by Democrats, and most others – like Tipton in #CO03 – are being replaced by even more pro-Trump Rs. Lesson: there is no going back to a GOP ‘before Trump,'” he noted.
Keep in mind: most of the Rs likeliest to speak out *against* Trump were replaced by Democrats, and most others – like Tipton in #CO03 – are being replaced by even more pro-Trump Rs.
Lesson: there is no going back to a GOP “before Trump.”
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 1, 2020
“For reference,” he concluded, “this 48% figure exceeds the attrition rate of Democrats at this point in Obama’s first term – 112/256 (44%) – and note that 2012 being a redistricting year contributed to plenty of Dem retirements/losses.”
Fact, you're losing.
s the number of coronavirus cases in the United States spiked in late March and early April, the White House coronavirus task force convened almost daily before a thinned-out, socially distanced presidential press corps. The briefings became a kind of daily ritual, watched at their height by millions. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health became a national celebrity; the scarves of Dr. Deborah Birx, a leading HIV/AIDS expert at the State Department, were the subject of a “Saturday Night Live” skit.
CDC director Robert Redfield was on the task force, but he rarely stood on the podium of the Brady Briefing Room alongside Fauci and Birx. Redfield’s most prominent appearance at a task force briefing was on April 22, following an interview he gave to the Washington Post in which he said that if the coronavirus and influenza viruses attacked in concert next fall, the effect could be disastrous.
At the April 22 briefing, an obviously annoyed President Trump said that would not be the case, then proceeded to have Redfield — a ponderous speaker who seems uncomfortable in front of a microphone — deliver a tortured explanation of what he had meant. But when a reporter later asked him if the Washington Post had misrepresented his words, as Trump claimed the paper had, Redfield defended the article.
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Never Before Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment & Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor Department Nails It Never Before Have I Seen So Much Fake Unemployment & Jobs Data by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor Department Nails It
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The clerk's puppet parade is on the march!
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