Remdesivir is being primarily developed by Gilead Sciences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remdesivir
Although funded multiple times by them in the past; in 2018 alone, Gilead Sciences paid Scott Sutton $247,000 for a research grant
https://twitter.com/UofSCPharm/status/1033077481610399744
In 2020 Scott Sutton was part of a research team that attempted to prove that hydroxychloroquine (the main competition to remdesivir) was ineffective as a treatment.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v2
How very convenient...
But if you look closer at that article you'll see something else. That study was funded by the University of Virginia and was released on April 23rd.
On April 30th it just so happens that the University of Virginia also announced that it was pleased to have participated in trials of remdesivir.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-joins-national-trial-test-potential-covid-19-medication
How very interesting. I'm sensing no possible conflicts of interest here...
Additionally, the National Institute of Health also contributed 2 grants to fund the study attacking the use of hydroxychloroquine
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v2.full.pdf
And while the NIH was funding the study that found hydroxychloroquine to be ineffective, they were simultaneously directly involved in the human testing of Remdesivir. A study that was ended early, had its criteria changed mid stream and resulted in a "statistically insignificant" change in mortality.
How very odd...
And wouldn't you know it, right around the time that China's peer reviewed and published study on remdesivir concluded that it was basically useless, Fauci leaked the details of their research praising it instead and claiming that China was wrong (despite China reaching nearly identical conclusion).
https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2020/04/what-the-public-didnt-hear-about-the-nih-remdesivir-trial/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31022-9/fulltext
And of course, the director of the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease is none other than Dr. Fauci.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/director
Obviously nothing sketchy going on here...
But the tale doesn't end there... if you look at the 52 members of the NIH's Panel that will decide treatment recommendations for remdesivir, 15% of them are funded by Gilead.
https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/panel-financial-disclosure/
And as a bonus: The University of Virginia also receives the vast majority of their funding from the National Institute of Health. In fact, the NIS donated $207,000,000 last year alone to them tying everyone together financially with a nice little bow.
https://news.virginia.edu/content/uva-research-tops-412-million-funding-year-highest-ever
I should point out that none of this necessarily means anything, but the apparent financial relationships here are pretty interesting and the circumstances surrounding the investigations into both remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine seem to be suspicious at best. I'm curious what your thoughts are. If you had coronavirus and had to choose, would you take remdesivir or hydroxychloroquine?
This is no Surprise, Fauci has a huge vested interest since I believe this drug was one developed for HIV, I could be very wrong since I’ve not verified this recently. New drugs, vetted rapidly Very often don’t get used or get taken off the market rather quickly due to unforeseen consequences. Fauci has never over 30+ years gotten his HIV vaccine to market. So far most literature indicated the drug is expensive and not doing a significant job in combating Corona19. The change in the study petaminters, as I understand, occurs in studies when they see significant positive responses in the group actually getting the drug, therefore the blind is taken off in the hope those getting placebo will not suffer from lack of actual beneficial drug treatment. Hope that made sense.
Looks like hydroxychloraquine the studies done were on dying patients and did not include the one ingredient that was part of what field physicians were using, namely Vitamin D. at least in the three I read certainly makes the study bogus if you don’t look at the whole combination reported as being very useful. The Study in Europe based on 5,000 patients cannot be ignored despite not being double blind.
I will be very surprised if there is ever a vaccine, since there has NEVER been one for any Corona virus. In light of Italy’s recent published info, Coronavirus is GONE, DIAPPEARED! Yes gone because 1. It morphed, like viruses do 2. The Viral Load has becom so low it is now NOT INFECTIOUS. This was verified by two of their top immunologists it will be interesting if our big health reps, Fauci and Birx continue to push the narrative that appears so political and not necessarily medical.
Yeah things certainly seem to be sketchy. In fact one of the big studies that was published in Lancet found that the death count went up for users of hydroxychloroquine after reviewing some 96,000 cases across 6 continents. The study was enough to convince the WHO to pause human testing of hydroxychloroquine and post a warning about its safety.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext
However, people were skeptical of these claims from a previously unknown company which somehow had acquired all that data seemingly out of nowhere. Unfortunately, the Surgisphere Corporation declared that it would not release the data saying that it violated confidentiality agreements. But that didn't stop skeptics who started digging into the company itself. It was later revealed that they only had around 3-6 employees listed on LinkedIn (certainly not enough to process all of this data accurately) and among these employees were a science fiction writer and an "adult model"... (raising even more questions as to if these people actually knew what they were doing or not).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/03/covid-19-surgisphere-who-world-health-organization-hydroxychloroquine
Fortunately in the long run the Lancet ended up retracting the study, but the damage has already been done. It does make one wonder what on earth is going on in the "Science" community...
Fauci does seem to still be pushing the narrative. Just this weekend, he was warning again of a deadly second wave, especially in light of all the protests taking place around the country. What has really been bugging me about the whole thing is the continual focus by media and politicians and others on the number of people dying from the virus, which is sad and unfortunate, but people die every year from all sorts of diseases and other causes. Why are so few in the media and elsewhere missing the point that an increasing number of scientists and medical professionals are reporting based on their findings that at least 99% of those who contract the virus survive. And the young, those under 18, are minimally affected but Fauci and the CDC are reluctant still to open schools in the fall and recommending they wear masks? Some of the recommendations the CDC has provided for school reopening are ridiculous. Honestly at this point, the CDC and state public health officials have lost all credibility with me.