No mention of the report that it failed its first clinical trial according to a report on WHO's website. WHO later claimed it was uploaded by mistake and has since taken it down.

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Gilead is a well-connected company. It was once run by Bush DND secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

One would think the report by AP would at least mention earlier reports that it failed clinical trials, doesnt one?

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Gilead is also the same company that convinced govts to stockpile Tamiflu during the Bird Flu scare. Tamiflu's effectiveness was, shall we say, suspect.

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Remesdivir is very expensive. The ordinary person can't afford it. The only way they make money is for governments to buy thousands of doses to stockpile.

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This report at least mentions the earlier trials but claims it was stopped "because insufficient numbers of people could be recruited as the epidemic tailed off."

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Which contradicts the BBC report (above) that the trials "was stopped early because of side-effects."

More shenanigans in the remesdivir study.

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