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posted by martyb on Thursday February 27 2020, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly

Clinical trials of remdesivir, an experimental drug to treat COVID-19, have begun at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha. More detail is provided in an article posted by the National Institutes of Health. The initial trial will involve 400 patients and will be conducted internationally but is beginning in Nebraska. There are currently 15 patients being monitored at UNMC, 13 of whom have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the daily update from UNMC, all of the 15 patients are now in the National Quarantine Unit, which has 20 beds. Previously, some of the patients had been in the Nebraska Biocontainment Unit, which is the largest facility of its kind in the country and had previously been used to treat ebola patients.

Note: The February 25 edition of the daily update mentioned the clinical trial, so there's a good possibility that additional updates will be posted in UNMC's daily update. The additional discussion may help explain why the trial is beginning in Nebraska even though there haven't been any cases that reported there -- all of the COVID-19 patients at UNMC were either sent there originally or were previously quarantined at Camp Ashland or were transported there from elsewhere.

Australia has activated its emergency response plan for global pandemics as the coronavirus spreads rapidly outside of China. The plan to deal with a large scale coronovirus outbreak is named "The COVID-19 plan". The plan notes that there are three levels of outbreak to consider, with a "high" outbreak being comparable to the extreme 1918 "Spanish flu" which infected one third of Australians and killed between 50 to 100 million people globally.

As the potential for the coronavirus to break out into a pandemic increases, people are flocking to stores for hand sanitizer with shelves in Australia and other countries out of stock of the items.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.


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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:14PM (11 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:14PM (#963666) Journal

    Our biggest risks right now comes from a for profit medical system that will make testing and treatment largely unaffordable to most people. There seems to be no attempt to make any of it freely available in the US.

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:33PM (10 children)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:33PM (#963680) Journal

    Bernie Sanders IS the attempt.

    • (Score: 1, Disagree) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:43PM (9 children)

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:43PM (#963691) Journal

      "Nobody likes him"!

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      • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:54PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday February 27 2020, @07:54PM (#963699) Journal
      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @08:43PM (7 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @08:43PM (#963728)

        You are really outing yourself as a shill or an incel sitting in an Alabama basement. You have to actively ignore the news to think Sanders isn't popular. He is the most popular candidate around by far, and that is pretty easy to tell even with the MSM's attempts to hide the fact.

        So, are you a shill or just ignorant? Because an honest person would acknowledge reality and say they support Trump or Bloomberg because they reflect the grubby little light of greed that warms their heart.

        • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:02PM

          by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:02PM (#963742) Journal

          :-) Self-righteous indignation noted, mr. funnyman

          Please, do try to keep up... [google.com]

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        • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:38PM (4 children)

          by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:38PM (#963772) Journal

          It is true Sanders is popular with Sanders supporters. The other half of the Democratic party fears and despises him/them. He fares less well with Independents and Republicans.

          I like Bernie, but if he becomes the nominee Trump is going to slaughter him.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:44PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:44PM (#963777)

            I like Bernie, but if he becomes the nominee Trump is going to slaughter him.

            Like last time, when they picked Hillary so she could slaughter Trump?

          • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:45PM (2 children)

            by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday February 27 2020, @09:45PM (#963780) Journal

            if he becomes the nominee Trump is going to slaughter him.

            Or maybe the non voters will step in. We'll see if they feel differently about him than the rest. I hope they remember to help elect a congress to back him up, or it's a wasted effort if they want to undo the last 50 years.

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            • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday February 27 2020, @10:16PM (1 child)

              by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday February 27 2020, @10:16PM (#963816) Journal

              Baby Boomers are not going to vote for a candidate that praises Cuba and the Soviet Union. Millennials would, but so far the youth turnout is lower than 2016.

              Also, Bernie is old and has already suffered a heart attack on the campaign trail. If he got the nomination and did something monumentally stupid like choosing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a running mate he'd be more than slaughtered. Those things always matter a lot to some voters.

              You are also right on about his needing a Congress to back him up. He would certainly not have that, because every Republican and half the Democratic members would absolutely blockade anything and everything he'd want to do. He'd be a lame duck from Day 1.

              I would like real national healthcare and a green new deal, but we'll never get it with Bernie. I honestly think we'll get to a carbon neutral civilization faster and more effectively with guys like Elon Musk doing it as a profit-making activity than we will through Bernie's socialist approach.

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @07:20AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @07:20AM (#964015)

                I'm GenX. I don't care about the Democrat Party's direction, nor whether Sanders finds favor with some things in Cuba or the Soviet Union.
                If I get to vote for common people politics under Sanders, I will vote for him. Otherwise I'll vote for Trump.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @07:22PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 28 2020, @07:22PM (#964287)

          Alabama doesn't have basements. They have root cellars. The incels are living in the root cellars with all the other fruits and nuts.