91 Peter Wade, “One Hospital Denies Oklahoma Doctor’s Story of Ivermectin Overdoses Causing ER Delays for Gunshot Victims: The hospital says it hasn’t experienced any care backlog due to patients overdosing on a drug that’s been falsely peddled as a covid cure,” Rolling Stone (Updated September 5, 2021, 8:55 pm ET), https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gunshot-victims-horse-dewormer-ivermectin-oklahoma-hospitals-covid-1220608/
92 “Video: Livestock feed stores are reporting shortages of ivermectin as many Americans buy up the anti-parasite drug and misuse it to treat Covid,” The Daily Mail (September 17, 2021), https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/health/video-2504931/Ivermectin-Explained-Anti-Parasite-Drug-Emerged.html
93 Jon Jackson, “Patients Overdosing on Ivermectin Are Clogging Oklahoma ERs: Doctor,” Newsweek (September 2, 2021), https://www.newsweek.com/patients-overdosing-ivermectin-are-clogging-oklahoma-ers-doctor-1625631
94 Martin Pengelly and agencies, “Ivermectin misuse adding to Covid pressures at Oklahoma hospitals, doctor says: Jason McElyea says people overdosing on antiparasitic drug that some people believe without evidence can cure or treat Covid,” The Guardian (September 13, 2021), https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/oklahoma-doctor-ivermectincovid-coronavirus
95 Graig Graziosi, “Doctor says gunshot victims forced to wait for treatment as Oklahoma hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. (First paragraph: “People poisoning themselves with a drug most commonly used as a horse dewormer are turning up hospitals in rural Oklahoma, a doctor has claimed”), The Independent (September 4, 2021), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gunshot-oklahoma-hospitals-ivermectin-overdose-b1914322.html.
96 “Patients overdosing on ivermectin backing up rural Oklahoma hospitals, ambulances”: “‘The scariest one I’ve heard of and seen is people coming in with vision loss,’ he said.” Twitter repost by Rachel Maddow, MSNBC @maddow (September 2, 2021), https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1433521336282976256
97 Tyler Durden, “Rolling Stone Issues ‘Update’ After Horse Dewormer Hit-Piece Debunked,” Zero Hedge (September 5, 2021), https://www.zerohedge.com/covid19/rollingstone-horse-dewormerhit-piece-debunked-after-hospital-says-no-ivermectin
98 Martin Pengelly, “Oklahoma hospitals deluged by ivermectin overdoses, doctor says,” Guardian (Sep. 4, 2021), https://archive.is/iIYB7
99 U.S. Food & Drug Administration, "Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent Covid19,” https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19
100 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rapid Increase in Ivermectin Prescriptions and Reports of Severe Illness Associated with Use of Products Containing Ivermectin to Prevent or Treat COVID19, (Aug 26, 2021). https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00449.asp
101 Erin Woo, “How Covid Misinformation Created a Run on Animal Medicine,” The New York Times (September 28, 2021), https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/28/technology/ivermectin-animal-medicine-shortage.html?searchResultPosition=1
102 Dr. Eddy Bettermann, MD, “Massive ‘horse’ lies about Nobel prize winning treatment,” (September 27, 2021), https://dreddymd.com/2021/09/27/massive-horse-lies-about-nobelprize-winning-treatment/
Endnotes - Remdesivir
1 Sydney Lupkin, Remdesivir Priced At More Than $3,100 For A Course Of Treatment, NPR, (May 8, 2020). https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/08/851632704/putting-a-price-on-covid19-treatment-remdesivir
2 Kathryn Ardizzone, Role of the Federal Government in the Development of Remdesivir, KEI Briefing Note 2020:1., (March 20, 2020). https://www.keionline.org/wp-content/uploads/KEI-Briefing-Note-2020_1GS-5734-Remdesivir.pdf
3 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Form 990-PF, 2016. https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/A-1_2016_Form_990-PF_Signed.pdf
4 United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Gilead Sciences, Inc.. Form 10-K https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/882095/000119312506045128/d10k.htm
5 Allison DeAngelis, Gilead, Gates Foundation join Watertown biotech’s $55M financing round, Boston Business Journal, (2018). https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2019/01/29/gilead-gates-foundation-join-watertown-biotechs.html
6 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, University of California San Francisco, (Sept. 2016). https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2016/09/opp1159068
7 Christopher Rowland, Taxpayers paid to develop remdesivir but will have no say when Gilead sets the price, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/26/remdesivircoronavirus-taxpayers/
8 Gilead Sciences, GlobalData offers view on Gilead’s suspension of Covid19 trials in China, News-Medical Life Sciences, (April 29, 2020), https://www.globaldata.com/gileads-suspension-of-covid-19-trials-in-china-should-serve-as-bellwether-for-studies-in-other-countries-says-globaldata/https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200429/GlobalData-offers-view-on-Gileade28099s-suspension-of-Covid-19-trials-in-China.aspx
9 ClinicalTrials.gov, Investigational Therapeutics for the Treatment of People With Ebola Virus Disease, (October 28, 2018). https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03719586
10 Ibid.
11 Erika Check Hayden, “Experimental drugs poised for use in Ebola outbreak,” Nature (May 18, 2018), https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05205-x
12 National Institutes of Health, Investigational Drugs Reduce Risk of Death from Ebola Virus Disease, NIH News Release, (November 27, 2019). https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/investigational-drugs-reduce-risk-death-ebola-virus-disease
13 Sabue Mulangu, “A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ebola Virus Disease Therapeutics, New England Journal of Medicine,” (December 12, 2019). https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910993
14 Ibid. at Table 2. Comparison of Death at 28 Days According to Treatment Group.
15 NIH Press Release, “NIH clinical trial of remdesivir to treat COVID19 begins,” NIH, (Feb. 25, 2020), https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-clinical-trial-remdesivir-treat-covid-19-begins
16 Ibid. NIH Press Release 17 Ibid. NIH Press Release 18 Andres Hill, et al, “Minimum costs to manufacture new treatments for COVID19,” ScienceDirect Journal of Virus Eradication Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 61-69, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2055664020300182
19 Angus Liu, “Fair price for Gilead’s COVID19 med remdesivir? $4,460, cost watchdog says,” FIERCE PHARMA, (May 4, 2020) https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/gileads-covid19-therapy-remdesivir-worth-4-460-per-course-says-pricing-watchdog
20 Matthew Herper, Gilead announces long-awaited price for Covid19 drug remdesivir, STAT (Jun. 29, 2020), https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/29/gilead-announces-remdesivir-price-covid19/
21 Angus Liu, Gilead banks on blockbuster remdesivir with sunnier 2020 outlook, FirecePharma, (July 21, 2020). https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/gilead-buoyed-by-potential-remdesivir-covid-19-sales-elevates-2020-outlook-despite-weak-base
22 Ibid.