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<blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 7967317" data-attributes="member: 4348"><p>I have heard promising things about remdesivir.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately a hedge fund manager promote it to boost the stocks and the company had to come in and tamp things down (but only after they found out about the promotion of the hedge manager, ran it through Public Affairs, and got them to put out a statement which took around 3-4 hours -which may seem like a long time but is actually really fast when you consider how long it can take corporations to respond with Public Affairs sometimes). This was long enough to do a pump and dump for the hedge fund.</p><p></p><p>It did not reflect well on the company, but it was not the company itself dumping it's stocks but a hedge fund manager and PR firm. They tried to squash it and hopes that it was a cure quickly as they are still doing research.</p><p></p><p>However, the ideas he latched onto were promising. It is ONLY in a very early stage but it appears to help a LOT with the early cases. However, it is limited enough in research that they are unwilling to say whether it is a placebo affect or the actual medicine before more analysis is done on what happened (end of April and early May at the earliest for real analysis to be done) and then more widespread testing if the results are positive.</p><p></p><p>Now, this is not a cure as people would think it is. It stops the virus from replicating. This means the virus is still in the person's system, but it will be unable to duplicate itself as easily. It does not heal the person or cure them, that is still up to the immune system. It helps keep the disease under control while the immune system is still working. The patients I think have been taking it for only about a week in the study. The disease can over a normal course take up to 20-40 days to run it's course so I can understand why they don't know if the patients are actually cured, it's gone into a sort of isolated state and will resurge, or what will happen. Even then, it was a limited course and they had trouble finding test subjects.</p><p></p><p>However, if it turns out that this CAN be used as a treatment with a high level of success (and the soonest they might actually know it seems would be June or July and maybe August or September, they still need more testing and a larger test group for a second and third wave of testing and viability) this could be almost as good as a vaccine. Just like when you get strep you can go to the doctor and get a medicine to help treat it, you could go and get a medicine to treat the COVID. </p><p></p><p>We could probably all go out and do our normal thing at that point and if we came down with symptoms early on, go and get the treatment and continue on with our lives.</p><p></p><p>I HOPE the tests turn out well because this medicine is a tad less intrusive than the other options people have looked at in hope to treat this illness thus far, but...it's too early to know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreyLord, post: 7967317, member: 4348"] I have heard promising things about remdesivir. Unfortunately a hedge fund manager promote it to boost the stocks and the company had to come in and tamp things down (but only after they found out about the promotion of the hedge manager, ran it through Public Affairs, and got them to put out a statement which took around 3-4 hours -which may seem like a long time but is actually really fast when you consider how long it can take corporations to respond with Public Affairs sometimes). This was long enough to do a pump and dump for the hedge fund. It did not reflect well on the company, but it was not the company itself dumping it's stocks but a hedge fund manager and PR firm. They tried to squash it and hopes that it was a cure quickly as they are still doing research. However, the ideas he latched onto were promising. It is ONLY in a very early stage but it appears to help a LOT with the early cases. However, it is limited enough in research that they are unwilling to say whether it is a placebo affect or the actual medicine before more analysis is done on what happened (end of April and early May at the earliest for real analysis to be done) and then more widespread testing if the results are positive. Now, this is not a cure as people would think it is. It stops the virus from replicating. This means the virus is still in the person's system, but it will be unable to duplicate itself as easily. It does not heal the person or cure them, that is still up to the immune system. It helps keep the disease under control while the immune system is still working. The patients I think have been taking it for only about a week in the study. The disease can over a normal course take up to 20-40 days to run it's course so I can understand why they don't know if the patients are actually cured, it's gone into a sort of isolated state and will resurge, or what will happen. Even then, it was a limited course and they had trouble finding test subjects. However, if it turns out that this CAN be used as a treatment with a high level of success (and the soonest they might actually know it seems would be June or July and maybe August or September, they still need more testing and a larger test group for a second and third wave of testing and viability) this could be almost as good as a vaccine. Just like when you get strep you can go to the doctor and get a medicine to help treat it, you could go and get a medicine to treat the COVID. We could probably all go out and do our normal thing at that point and if we came down with symptoms early on, go and get the treatment and continue on with our lives. I HOPE the tests turn out well because this medicine is a tad less intrusive than the other options people have looked at in hope to treat this illness thus far, but...it's too early to know. [/QUOTE]
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