(05-20-2026, 04:14 PM)chr0naut Wrote: This was part of a sequence of trials to determine the best therapies against Ebola.
By my reading of the article, it was Fauci, via the NIH, who stopped the trial, once it was determined that the REGN-EB3 and mAb114 antivirals had the best results of the four meds (which included Remdesivir).
It was important to quickly identify the best remedies as Ebola was both deadly and epidemic, so running the trial for longer after the best candidates had already been identified would lead to unnecessary deaths.
There is no indication that Remdesivir caused deaths. Ebola is a deadly disease. It was just identified that there were more effective antivirals than Remdesivir, against the epidemic strain (just as was the case with COVID-19).
That is untrue.
Remdesivir was not killing more people than it was helping.
Fewer people who took Remdesivir died (49.7 % of the patients in that test group), than did untreated West African Ebola virus sufferers (case fatality rate of up to 90%).
It wasn't made the standard of care by Fauci. It was among a list of approved antivirals.
AZT was the first therapeutic that worked against against AIDS, but there were later, better ones.
The USA and Fauci's preferred antiretroviral, Ritonavir, proved to be a polymorphic molecule and once it changed form, it was less effective, and so for a while, AZT was adopted as the preferred antiretroviral against AIDS, as it was the next best thing.
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The current preferred drugs against AIDS are the Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors (InSTIs); Dolutegravir & Bictegravir and the Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs); Tenofovir, Emtricitabine & Lamivudine.
Clinical trials have shown that Remdesivir does not have a "deadly" profile. It can have severe allergic reactions, but they are all medically treatable.
Remdesivir is administered only by injection, and always under medical supervision.
Claims suggesting Remdesivir is responsible for significant deaths among COVID-19 patients are outright lies and are usually peddled by those who also are antivaxxers, and who say that COVID-19 was a 'plandemic'.
Here's the study that was prepared by NIH scientists about Remdesivir and ZMapp- December 12, 2019.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993
"Remdesivir showed significantly worse outcomes compared to other investigational drugs"
On August 9 "recommended terminating Z Mapp and Remdesivir."
"Mortality exceeded 50%."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Lane
Well I didn't start off being an anti- vaxer but I am now and I do believe it was a plandemic.
Fauci was the head of the NIH-
https://www.npr.org/2005/05/27/4669470/n...r-children
