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[Daniel Cooper]

I'm sure most are aware of this by now.
 
NIAID Director Fauci Tests Positive for COVID-19

 

 

[Dorian Grey]

Fascinating...  His darling drug remdesivir is fully FDA approved for outpatient infusion, yet npr says he's opting for Paxlovid, with it's pathetic EUA. 

 

I would think he'd go for the fully approved, safe and effective drug.  

 

Remdesivir for thee, but NOT for ME!  

 

Oh well...  Best of Luck old darling.  

[Daniel Cooper]

I hadn't picked up on that.

 

Honestly, everyone involved is trying to forget remdesivir even exists at this point. If it helped at all the effect was very modest. 

 

I don't have any strong opinion on hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin - except to say I've seen studies both positive and negative that imply that they were at least as effective as remdesivir, which is a pretty low bar.

 

Of course, remdesivir was outrageously expensive and presumably made buckets of money for Gilead, which was all gravy for them since remdesivir had failed every end point goal for all the other viruses it had previously been trialed against (hep C, marburg, and ebola), so the R&D was all sunk costs that they surely had planned on writing off. 

 

I do have a strong opinion that the FDA is very biased against investigating and recommending cheap off patent existing drugs because they are currently the finest example or regulatory capture that I can think of. As currently comprised, the FDA exists primarily to ensure the health of the pharmaceutical industry. The health and welfare of patients are a secondary consideration, something that might perhaps be considered as a side effect.