In contrast to governmental paralysis and confusion caused by the pandemic, pharmaceutical and biotech firms around the globe are swarming Covid-19 in an effort to stop it in its tracks.ast September, Gallup released an opinion poll that surveyed Americans’ views of U.S. businesses, ranking 25 different sectors from very positive to very negative. The pharmaceutical industry came in dead last, lower than at any time since Gallup started the poll in 2001.
“The idea is to find the best horse in each of the categories. Antivirals plus host immune response modulation makes a lot of sense, but we need to find the best therapeutic in each category, for the right patient population.” says Ramaswamy, who studied biology at Harvard, was a hedge fund analyst and earned a Yale law degree before he began building his innovative biotech firm in 2015.
Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech Moderna Therapeutics also signed a partnership deal with the federal government’s BARDA. It claims that it may be able to shorten the relatively long development time for a vaccine. Like Ebola and measles, COVID-19 is an RNA virus, meaning it has no DNA but instead uses the host’s cells to replicate itself. Moderna specializes in developing drugs based on RNA.
Another important and perhaps more pressing front in the war against COVID-19 is therapeutics because they promise to have an immediate impact on people already afflicted by the influenza as well as tamp down the impact of an expected second wave of the pandemic. Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb is urging the federal government to set up robust partnerships with companies working on therapeutics, just as it has with the vaccine makers.
those treated with favipiravir, which was approved as an antiviral for use in Japan in 2014, tested negative for the virus after four days compared to the 11 days it took the control group to recover.Gilead’s antiviral remdesivir has shown preclinical promise but it needs to be administered early and intravenously. The concern is that people infected with Sars-CoV-2 might get it too late in the cycle. Results from some of remdesivir’s clinical trials are expected as early as this month.
Another set of remedies known as JAK inhibitors reduce IL-6 antibodies, but also attack a whole host of other pro-inflammatory cytokines. Jakafi and barticinib are two arthritis drugs in development by Delaware biotech firm Incyte and pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly that are now being studied. JAK inhibitors are riskier because they offer a broad attack, akin to firing a shotgun rather than a rifle, at the problem. But the JAK inhibitors could also diminish the risk of a cytokine storm.
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How long till we have the cure...?
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Indian drug exporters are funnily omitted from your table
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The only reason the government is in paralysis is because Republicans are running the show. They’re unfit to run a nation, obviously.
Imagine that if you never had the thought that is disturbing you - would you be disturbed? It is attachment to your own thoughts that have now been clearly identified as conceptual fabrications that are the cause of your suffering.
Today the world is depending upon the pharmaceutical industry to not only save lives but economies around the world
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Greetings to the World The TV news, WUHAN,CHINA LOCKDOWN HAS ENDED. AFTER ELEVEN WEEKS. HOW ABOUT TWO HUNDRIED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD? TO UN AND WHO, WHAT WILL BE DONE? HOPEFULLY, COVID-19 SOON STOP IN THE WORLD.
Why don't we just give up and let COVID-19 defeat us?
Yay pharma coming thru when we need them to... The non-cynical side of me hopes they won't price the medicines & vaccines too high, further taxing our strained healthcare budgets & systems.
they should totally make trucks that spurt steam & alcohol & essential oils for clear breathing, warn people in case they're allergic to any of it as well as a medical team follow with 'epipens' just in case (general) & another team behind that to wipe random things with sannies
And it will be defeated 🤞
If govts don't curtail this power grab...big pharma will become emboldened to try for more...how many epidemics/pandemics did we have between 1970 and 2000...how many have we had since 2003?
While their tryin to scare us in this picture with the virus bein 10X-20X larger then it really is, I think there forgetting it would be easier to spot and avoid. Thanks
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