U.S. FDA moving with 'lightning speed' on Gilead's COVID-19 drug: Bloomberg

Gilead Sciences Inc pharmaceutical company is seen after they announced a Phase 3 Trial of the investigational antiviral drug Remdesivir in patients with severe coronavirus disease , during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , in Oceanside, California, U.S., April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake

- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working at “lightning speed” to review data on Gilead Sciences Inc’s experimental antiviral drug remdesivir in treating COVID-19 disease, the head of the agency told Bloomberg in an interview. “We’re working with the company to emphasize the necessity of speed while at the same time to understand the data,” FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn said.

Meanwhile, the FDA in an email statement to Reuters, reiterated it was in talks with Gilead about making the drug available to patients as quickly as possible. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official, had said on Wednesday remdesivir will become the standard of care for COVID-19 after early clinical trial results showed it helped patients recover more quickly from the illness caused by the coronavirus.

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Just crazy how FDA is prioritizing and an expensive drug, which needs to be taken i.v. versus other cheap antivirals like HCQ.

Please, please, please, can we ensure that the WH is not in charge of distribution of Remdesivir or any of the vaccines. Enough innocent people have already died, without trump deciding who gets to live depending on how the Governors curtsey.

maggieNYT Does anyone see the irony in this name? handmaidstale

Remdesivir might be used in US to treat covid patients Latest updates | cases per million population👇 COVID__19 COVID19

maggieNYT Will Aunt Lydia deliver it?

maggieNYT Notice that the doubters in this thread would take the drug recommended by the guy who suggested injecting disinfectants rather than take the drug recommended by the guy who help beat AIDS. People actually think this way. Wow.

maggieNYT If you don't mind being on a ventilator for 11 days with 4% better odds of surviving, this is a great drug for you. As far as I am concerned this drug sucks. Find me a better one.

Is rush to give FDA approval to Remdesivir based on Science or on pressure from Lobbyists of rich Gilead Lab owners of big chunk of shares ?

maggieNYT This should be a layup for a drug that already has undergone FDA approval....

Intravenous treatment for 4-10 days, great for the rich.

maggieNYT Drop the hyperbole. Expeditiously?

maggieNYT

Why is Fauci promoting a drug that costs more than 1000 time the cost of HCL when several studies have shown HCL in conjunction with Azithromycin and zinc work better at a fraction of the cost?

Ha Ha Ha Yes as soon as the found a drug they could make more money on they were off and running. Fuk the 2005 report from CDC about an effective drug against corona not enough money to be made from that old drug.

Too fast, slow down. This is how we make a Trump zombie apocalypse...

Such an unfortunate name handmaidstale

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