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WHO on Remdesiver vaccine disappointment – looking at alternatives to trial

  
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More from the WHO:
  • says solidarity therapeutics trial produces conclusive evidence on effectiveness of repurposed drugs for covid-19 in record time
  • says interim remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine, lopinavir/ritonavir and interferon regimens appeared to have little or no effect on 28-day mortality
  • who-interim results in trial indicate remdesivir appeared to have little or no effect on 28day mortality or in-hospital course of covid-19 in patients
  • study, which spans over 30 countries, looked at effects of treatments on overall mortality, initiation of ventilation, duration of hospital stay
  • newer antiviral drugs, immunomodulators and anti-sars cov-2 monoclonal antibodies are now being considered for evaluation at solidarity trial

Headlines via Reuters

World Health Organization to send international experts to China as soon as possible

  
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World Health Organization on China

The World Health Organization is on the wires saying:
  • WHO has agreed with China that they would send international experts to China as soon as possible to boost understanding and guide global response to the coronavirus outbreak
  • WHO says a better understanding of the transmissibility and severity of the virus is urgently required to guide other countries on appropriate measures
  • It can reconvene its emergency committee on coronavirus on very short notice as needed. Its members are on standby and being informed of developments

What’s wrong with the picture if the World Health Organization has to pander to China during a potential buyers outbreak?

WHO chief has met with China president Xi on coronavirus outbreak – spokesman

  
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WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom, is in China this week to discuss ways of containing the virus outbreak

The spokesman also said that Tedros has met up with top Chinese officials and discussed measures to protect Chinese and foreigners in areas affected by the coronavirus. They are also said to have discussed possible alternatives to evacuations.

Adding that Tedros did not travel to any place outside of Beijing and that the WHO emergency committee is being ‘kept in the loop’ about the situation.
Tedros is also coming under quite a bit of flak after the WHO previously described the virus risk as being “moderate” over the weekend before admitting to their mistake and correcting the risk to “very high in China and at a regional level, and high at a global level”.
It still doesn’t look like they will declare the virus as a public health emergency it seems.

Bill Gates donates $10 billion for vaccine research

  
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bill-gates-1983Gates may be great with computers and technologies, but he’ll just waste money putting it into vaccines.  Best to spend it on sanitation, nutrition and refrigeration if he wants to help the most people of poor countries, because these three things were the major reasons why we had a dramatic decline in infectious diseases in America. DAVOS, Switzerland (Jan. 29) — The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world’s poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said Friday.


Calling upon governments and business to also contribute, they said the money will produce higher immunization rates and aims to make sure that 90 percent of children are immunized against dangerous diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia in poorer nations.

“We must make this the decade of vaccines,” Bill Gates said in a statement. “Vaccines already save and improve millions of lives in developing countries. Innovation will make it possible to save more children than ever before.”

Gates said the commitment more than doubles the $4.5 billion the foundation has given to vaccine research over the years.

The foundation said up to 7.6 million children under 5 could be saved through 2019 as a result of the donation. It also estimates that an additional 1.1 million kids would be saved if a malaria vaccine can be introduced by 2014. A tuberculosis vaccine would prevent even more deaths.

“Vaccines are a miracle,” said Melinda Gates. “With just a few doses, they can prevent deadly diseases for a lifetime.”

Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, called the Gates contribution unprecedented and urged governments and private donors to add to the initiative.

“An additional two million deaths in children under five years could be prevented by 2015 through widespread use of new vaccines and a 10 percent increase in global vaccination coverage,” said Chan.

The Gates statement said the foundation would help to dramatically reduce child mortality in the next 10 years and urged others to pitch in with research funding and other financial support for poor children….

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