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| Human testing of coronavirus treatment begins, vaccine prep progresses |
| 2020-02-26 |
| [JPost] - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is beginning tests of an antiviral drug on a passenger from the Diamond Princess cruise ship and preparing a new coronavirus vaccine for human testing, according to Time magazine. The antiviral drug remdesivir, developed for Ebola, is being tested on a patient who was brought to the US from the cruise ship after being infected with the virus. Others diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, will also take part in the study. Remdesivir showed encouraging results among animals infected with two related coronaviruses ‐ those causing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), according to Time. ...Moderna Therapeutics, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has shipped the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the NIH, which will prepare the vaccine for human testing as early as April, according to Time. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Grom, I was speaking of the remdesivir. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-02-26 23:39 |
| #6 thing A regulatory structure has developed over several decades concerning the procedure for approving drugs for diagnosis, therapy and prevention of disease. The structure does lean heavily toward caution and, as you infer, ends up adding millions to the cost of development and months and years to the large scale use of drugs. The Coronovirus situation has required a number of 'compassionate use' exceptions to the regulations but each one of these exceptions required debate, analysis, etc. Maybe the silver lining in the coronovirus situation will be that a more expeditious regulatory regime will emerge. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2020-02-26 16:32 |
| #5 First US docs to analyze coronavirus patients’ lungs say insight could lead to quicker diagnosis |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-02-26 14:45 |
| #4 bbrewer126, vaccine is what you give to healthy people so they won't be infected. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 13:15 |
| #3 If I'm about to be room temperature....yes |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2020-02-26 12:50 |
| #2 Because first you have to have animal trails, Thing. Would you volunteer to be injected without these? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-02-26 10:28 |
| #1 Why the goldbricking? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2020-02-26 09:55 |