04-27-2020, 03:46 PM
Very true. And were still early. But all of the trial data is thus far consistent with the clinical experience that there is no ground breaking pharmaceutical currently being used. Remdesivir, IL6 antibodies, plaquenil, all have been tried in thousands of patients.
If there was an existing medication giving really good results, we'd probably know it by now, and the better trials we've seen results for fit with this experience. Maybe one of the meds will give a limited benefit. But nothing that would let us reopen widely or anything like that. Of course all of these meds are old. Perhaps there will be a groundbreaking new medication, perhaps monoclonal neutralizing antibodies or something. But if its new, then it needs a lot more testing before it can be used.
If there was an existing medication giving really good results, we'd probably know it by now, and the better trials we've seen results for fit with this experience. Maybe one of the meds will give a limited benefit. But nothing that would let us reopen widely or anything like that. Of course all of these meds are old. Perhaps there will be a groundbreaking new medication, perhaps monoclonal neutralizing antibodies or something. But if its new, then it needs a lot more testing before it can be used.
