The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to grant a full approval to Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir is raising questions about the broader value of a drug that has been praised for being “first” but may only provide limited clinical benefits.
See also: Coronavirus update: U.S. death toll tops 223,000; rural hospitals are filling and the Dakotas lead the nation by new infections Yet other studies, including two trials in China and one conducted by the World Health Organization, have found little benefit in Veklury. The WHO’s Solidarity trial is a randomized, open-label study evaluating four antiviral drugs, including Veklury, in 11,330 hospitalized patients around the world; it found that the drugs had “little or no effect” on mortality, the need for ventilation or duration of hospital stay, according to interim findings published Oct.
Dr. Peter Bach, an epidemiologist and director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Center for Health Policy and Outcomes, called the approval “astonishing” in a tweet, before criticizing the use of clinical trials that either lacked a control arm or blinding in the approval. “An entirely negative real-world [randomized controlled trial] was larger than these put together,” Bach tweeted.
Not affordable on scale of a pandemic. Or epidemic. Boutique drug for purpose of enriching a few execs
All about the money...duh
VOTE FOR: DONALD TRUMP.
The FDA is playing politics with Covid.! Biden should dissolve this aging dinosaur long passed its usefulness.
Well... just fyi... decreased length of stay is *gold* to a hospital. Allow me to educate... they get paid a fixed amount per diagnosis therfore shorter stay is a *major* cost savings. Decreased mortality is great for us humans but hospitals are worried about money.
Don owns stock in the company. factor that in the free ads he made.
ProsperBryson lol
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