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Showing Original Post only (View all)Breaking News Gilead Remdesivir Trial for Covid-19 Has Met Primary Endpoint [View all]
Source: Bloomberg News
Gilead Sciences said it's aware of positive data emerging from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' study of the investigational antiviral remdesivir for the treatment of COVID-19, Bloomberg News reports.
The shares of the company are halted. More information is available on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Developing...
Update:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/gilead-remdesivir-trial-for-covid-19-has-met-primary-endpoint
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-29/gilead-remdesivir-trial-for-covid-19-has-met-primary-endpoint-k9lbot69
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Gilead stock has halted!
Suspected something big was up just watching the futures.
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mobeau69
Apr 2020
OP
Good news. Of course we will soon know that tRump himself developed this drug.
groundloop
Apr 2020
#1
LOL. He'll look like an even bigger fool. Most people have seen the light on his con. nt
mobeau69
Apr 2020
#2
If the news is true, it's still a very limited help. Requires an IV, in a hospital setting.
lagomorph777
Apr 2020
#8
I don't think most nursing homes are actually equipped/staffed to deliver IVs.
lagomorph777
Apr 2020
#12
Yeah, it may be much more practical than sending everybody to the hospital.
lagomorph777
Apr 2020
#14
It might help with some by just knowing they are taking something for it. Placebo effect.
LiberalArkie
Apr 2020
#21
WHO messed up big time by accidently releasing incomplete data from China, (supposedly), which
still_one
Apr 2020
#7
That is what I heard also, but still it was still an incomplete trial. I am trying to understand
still_one
Apr 2020
#17
They will administer the drug in an infusion center or something like that. I am skeptical
still_one
Apr 2020
#19
Still the data should not have been released because it was incomplete, also it is a
still_one
Apr 2020
#18
This latest result showed definite shorter course of the disease and that is good
still_one
Apr 2020
#32
What I found interesting was that when you add 62%+49% it does not equal 100
turbinetree
Apr 2020
#24