International Coronavirus Breaking News, v6

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Madmick said:
Certainly we are, since we're all human, and capable of contracting the disease, but China's disastrous, ignominious handling of the outbreak early on is why it has reached the level it has, and nobody should forget that. They're not getting off the hook with me.

Once we figure out a vaccine it will still take forever to manufacturer enough to fulfill global demand. I suspect the outbreak will have mostly passed by the time they do, judging by how many are already being cleared in first world countries of the virus, without serious consequences to their health, in most cases, but it will vital to stock supply for the future.
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I’ll go one step further and say I think China should be held to account for this as well. Many around the world have died or will die or have their future health compromised due to this virus. Better pay up after .
 
Wadtucket said:
I spoke to an exec at Gilead infectious diseases today, and he seemed very optimistic regarding their results with remdesivir. Hopefully they will be allowed to expand the compassionate usage in the US shortly.
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That's only drug that the WHO acknowledged to be actually effective in clinical testing on coronavirus patients in China right now. Gilead's stockholders must be jumping for joy after that press conference.

Also in the news: China finally granted Gilead the patents that have been on the wait list for the last 3 years. Wuhan Institute copy-cats can go suck on a sausage.


China Grants Three Patents to Gilead’s Remdesivir as Hopes Rise for Effective Treatment
By Yu Dawei and Denise Jia | Feb 27, 2020https://u.caixinglobal.com/search/denise-jia.html

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Gilead Sciences Inc. has been granted three patents in China for its antiviral drug remdesivir, the most promising drug to treat the coronavirus that has infected more than 80,000 globally and killed nearly 2,800.

This development could mean a competing patent application by a Chinese state-backed research body for the same drug may not get approved.

The U.S. drugmaker has applied for eight patents for the drug in China, and five are still being reviewed, He Zhimin, deputy director of the National Intellectual Property Administration, said at a press conference Monday. The eight patents cover intellectual property including drug compounds, manufacturing methods, and drug usage.

Originally developed to treat the Ebola virus, remdesivir is now undergoing clinical tests for coronavirus treatment. An official from the World Health Organization (WHO) said the drug is showing signs that it may be able to help treat the coronavirus.

“There is only one drug right now that we think may have real efficacy and that’s remdesivir,” WHO assistant director-general Bruce Aylward said at a press conference in Beijing. The drug’s clinical trial results could be available within weeks, he said.

Chinese authorities are very focused on establishing the efficacy and safety of remdesivir, and hope a batch of effective drugs will be available as soon as possible, including remdesivir, he said.

Gilead filed a patent application in China as early as 2011 for “a method and compound for treating paramyxoviridae virus infection” and obtained approval in 2015, according to data from the National Intellectual Property Administration. The compound in the patent is remdesivir.

The U.S. company also filed patent applications in 2016 for use of remdesivir to treat coronavirus and other viruses. These patents haven’t been approved. But Gilead’s applications explicitly covered the use of remdesivir to inhibit the polymerase enzyme in coronavirus. This means Gilead claimed the use of remdesivir to treat coronavirus years before Wuhan Institute for Virology filed a similar patent application earlier this year.

Wuhan Institute of Virology, based in the Chinese city at the center of the epidemic, applied for a patent in China for use of remdesivir in treating the ailment on January 21, together with a military academy, according to a Feb. 4 statement on the institute’s website.

The move by the Wuhan research institute led to a dispute over intellectual property and drew criticism. The Wuhan institute subsequently said it made the patent application in the national interest and won’t exercise its patent rights if foreign pharmaceutical companies work with China to curb the contagion, the institute said in the statement.

“They shouldn’t have done that,” because they don’t own the compound structure or clinical data, said Sun Zhongshi, an expert from the Drug Evaluation Center of China’s State Food and Drug Administration.

Gilead Sciences is one of many firms seeking an effective treatment for the coronavirus. Global pharmaceutical giants Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, and dozens of domestic drugmakers are also working on vaccines and treatments.

More than 200 clinical trials of different treatments are ongoing. Experts worry that so many trials could pose a burden to front-line medical care.

Each clinical trial needs nearly 1,000 patients with mild symptoms to prove a 5-percentage point improvement in the cure rate, or at least 800 patients with severe conditions, according to a paper authored by health statistics and epidemiology experts in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology.

In some clinical trials, the sample size is obviously insufficient to reach a reliable conclusion, the paper said. Some trials have only a few samples. As fewer new cases have been confirmed in China in recent days, 15 provinces have fewer than 50 confirmed cases, which means there are not enough patients to conduct such trials.

WHO’s Aylward said at Monday’s press conference that he talked with a Chinese researcher in Wuhan, who told him the biggest challenge now in developing antiviral drugs is difficulty in recruiting subjects because the number of patients is declining.

The WHO official called for prioritizing research projects that can help to save lives most rapidly.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-0...s-rise-for-effective-treatment-101521002.html
 
I don't want the vaccine.

I've made it through legionnaires, and an unidentified flu/sickness that made it so I couldn't stand up for 3 days, or drink a sip of water, or make it up stairs without crawling. All I could do was lay and shiver. I literally think it was bird-flu or something because it was at that exact time. But I lost 12 lbs, and came out the other end. I can guarantee what I had that time in my early 20's would have a >25% death rate. I don't get a flu shot, and I don't need this. If I die, I die.
 
Trump's instincts were correct, he didnt want them brought back, right? Shame he couldn't translate that into his administration and the departments they lead by taking proper steps once they were brought over. And further compounding the mistake by reassigning someone pointing out how dumb it all was. Just points to the structural incompetence of his administration.

It was going to get out either way, but bungling an initial response like the Chinese did is what sticks in people's minds.
 
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WAS NOT TESTED FOR DAYS...
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Empty shelves hit Hawaii...
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Pence Picks Top AIDS Official for Response...


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14% of patients who recover -- test positive again...

Woman reinfected WEEKS later...

HIV-like mutation...
 
trac209 said:
You question trump and the USA on their actions and think Canada has a clue lmao .... the Canadian government has said zero, put in place zero travel restrictions, and has only opened their mouths at the start to say they didn’t want any Chinese racism....
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NO.

I am not saying Canada or China are doing any thing well. So get that straight.

What I am saying is that it has been FAIR GAME to critique and look at every aspect of how Canadian Politicians and the gov't and ANY OTHER politician and gov't are handling this.

To examine what their messaging is opposed to what the professionals are saying and what reality is on the street.

It has been a STRENGTH of these threads, that we question.


It is only with regards to Trump and what he says and does that suddenly the outcomes of 'don't do that. That is partisan, that is trolling' have arisen. The usual Trump nutsuckers, @Madmick chief amongst them crying about poor Trump abuse and trying to silence it not just now but in the future by trying to paint it as partisan or spamming.

it is SOLELY around Trump you see this complaint and from exactly the TDS infected defense squad you would expect it from.
 
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Chris Martenson (peak prosperity corona update man) is streaming on youtube right now.

 
Amerikuracana said:
I don't want the vaccine.

I've made it through legionnaires, and an unidentified flu/sickness that made it so I couldn't stand up for 3 days, or drink a sip of water, or make it up stairs without crawling. All I could do was lay and shiver. I literally think it was bird-flu or something because it was at that exact time. But I lost 12 lbs, and came out the other end. I can guarantee what I had that time in my early 20's would have a >25% death rate. I don't get a flu shot, and I don't need this. If I die, I die.
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Wait, what? Legionnaires??! Are you talking about the disease or the French Legion? Both impressive tbh
 
There's not much you can do with Europe's Freedom of Movement, bro.

Just buckle up and enjoy the ride.​

France faces coronavirus 'epidemic', Macron warns, as confirmed cases double
27/02/2020

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President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France was preparing for a jump in the number of coronavirus cases, adding "we are going to have to deal with it as best we can."


"We are facing a crisis, an epidemic that is coming," Macron said while visiting staff at the La Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris, where the first French person carrying the new coronavirus died Tuesday.

"We know that we're only at the beginning... we're going to try with all our caretakers to make the right decisions," Macron said alongside Health Minister Olivier Veran.

"You had a case here... I know this affected many of your teams," he said, pledging to address the crisis "truthfully" so that measures can be taken "calmly".

Health Minister Veran also confirmed Thursday a sharp rise in coronavirus infections from 18 to 38, linked to the identification of "contact persons".

So far, France has reported two deaths, including an 80-year-old Chinese tourist who was the first casualty of the virus reported outside Asia.

The second was a 60-year-old teacher, a case that has worried officials because he had not travelled to an outbreak hotspot.

A 55-year-old man from the same region as the teacher, who also had not travelled to an outbreak zone, was also hospitalised with the virus, and investigations are under way to try to find the source of the infections on French soil.

More than 2,700 people worldwide have died of COVID-19 so far, and almost 80,000 have been infected, mainly in China.

The French government has asked citizens returning from Italy's Lombardy and Veneto regions to avoid "all non-essential outings" and keep their children home from school.

The same recommendations have been issued for people returning from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and South Korea.

https://www.france24.com/en/20200227-france-faces-coronavirus-epidemic-macron-warns
 
@Rob Battisti not sure about you but we just cancelled our GDC trip. With the mayor preemptively declaring a state of emergency and so many vendors dropping out, we deemed that it's just not worth the hassle.
 
Think there will be enough time for a vaccine to prevent a large portion of the world's workforce from getting sick?

Do governments just print money during this time?. Best to buy and prepare now so you aren't in a bread and soup line.
 
Corona infections have tripled in Germany in the past 24.
 
We should seriously protect VIPs like the ones that run nuclear reactors and make sure that type of environment is clean.
 
Long Branch said:
Think there will be enough time for a vaccine to prevent a large portion of the world's workforce from getting sick?

Do governments just print money during this time?. Best to buy and prepare now so you aren't in a bread and soup line.
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Even if they create a vaccine there are enough dumbasses in the US who wont take it putting babies and elderly and others who cannot take the vaccine at risk
 
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