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was this just people in the FDA and Euro FDA hoping that Remedesivir would work because they wanted to hope something works against Covid as the outlook was so bleak. Or is the darker side that a whole lot of people profited from making this drug 'approved' and such they ram rodded it through for profit.
Can you summarize primary point(s)?This study has gotten a lot of press in the past 12 hours. I caution that it has not been peer reviewed.
A variation of the first. The attitude is there is nothing else, the drug isn't demonstrably harmful, so it's better than nothing (albeit not much). In a less dire situation, remdesivir would not have been approved.
i get that opinion also. there were a few studies that showed it did a little something (but appears very little). The issue i have a little is that it appears the Remdesivir studies were not much conclusive than the HCQ studies and yet massive journal articles and all out attacks on HCQ and yet everybody was super positive about Redesevir. And when you look at some of the initial data studies, there was hardly any difference between the two of them. Which makes me think that $$$ was behind the huge marketing campaigns against HCQ and for Resmevider.
not yet peer reviewed
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Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV-2 found at six months in non-hospitalised individuals - University of Birmingham
Cellular (T cell) immunity against SARS-CoV-2 is likely to be present within most adults six months after primary infection, a new pre-print from the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC) suggests.www.birmingham.ac.uk
You are 100% correct, but fat shaming is not permitted.i remember reading articles like this back in
I think one of the biggest travesties in this whole pandemic is the govt. not being honest and open with people about who is really most at risk. In trying to put fear into everybody that this disease is serious to them, they lost the ability to strike fear into the people that are really most at risk for serious issues. I think most know now that if you are in a nursing home and/or very elderly with multiple health problems, you have serious risk. But beyond that, obesity has been talked about as a major (if not the #1) issue for everybody NOT in a nursing home as the most serious co-morbidty to have. Throw in that most obese (and talking sloppy, very fat people) have other health issues as that pretty much goes along with being extremely obese and that group should have been told how much they are at risk way, way, way beyond a normal relatively healthy person.
And now combine that with the millions who have already had it with limited effect.Based on everything I have seen and read, my estimate is 25-35% of people have natural immunity. Combine with another 25-40% of people being asymptomatic and I think easily over 50-65% of population this has zero effect on.