Since 2002 Anthony Fauci has been collaborating with USAMRIID in Fort Detrick where GILEAD developed Remdesivir!
Dr. Fauci has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID, paty of the NIH) since 1984. As such, working with the United States Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases would be a natural part of his job. Gilead develops medicines to fight infectious diseases. Remdesivir was refined by Gilead in partnership with USAMRIID from one of Gilead's existing compounds in an effort to fight Ebola,
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/remdesivir-works-against-many-viruses-why-arent-there-more-drugs-it-180974859/ , the section titled "The Rise of Remdesivir" .
Nothing sinister here.Fauci spearheaded the research on Remdesivir!
No. See my comment above and the article that documents it.
As drug manufacturers speed up their efforts to find a new treatment drug for the coronavirus outbreak that has devastated China and has caused a world-wide panic, a Chinese drug company just announced that it has started mass-producing an experimental drug from Gilead Sciences that has the potential to fight the novel coronavirus.
So either Gilead licensed Remdesivir or the Chinese company pirated it.
Either way, so what!The U.S. FDA recently granted orphan drug status to Remdesivir for treating COVID-19.
This happened on March 23, 2020, at a time when Gilead was temporarily unable to meet mushrooming demand,
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/opdlisting/oopd/detailedIndex.cfm?cfgridkey=739020 . Several days later Gilead requested that the orphan drug status be rescinded,
https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/company-statements/gilead-sciences-statement-on-request-to-rescind-remdesivir-orphan-drug-designation . In sum: the special status was not granted recently; Gilead requested the status be rescinded just days after it was granted.
Those false claims pointed out, so what!The status gives Gilead various benefits, including the FDA’s fast-track drug review.
Remdesivir has not had orphan drug status for some 7 months, so this statement is false, either ignorance or deception.
But 48 hours after they got this status Gilead walked away & partners with China!
It was ~48 hours after receiving the special status that Gilead requested it be rescinded. As noted above, either the Chinese drug company licensed Remdesivir or pirated it. Either way (and things I've seen suggest the latter) this is not "partnering".
Either way, so what!Remdesivir (Veklury) used properly apparently helps fight Covid-19 (and several other viral diseases, including Ebola) and the FDA recently approved it for use with hospitalized patients. So, why is it being attacked with easily disproven falsehoods, chimeric bogey-CTs, and ad hominem? If it's effective, why care whether Dr. Fauci became aware of Remdesivir in 2014 or 2020? If it's effective, why begrudge Remdesivir being available to treat sick Chinese people?
How is this attack against an effective drug meaningfully different from the attack on HCQ? Trump-Hating MSM folk aren't, IMO, meaningfully different from CT'ists and their falsehoods.