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FRENCH PHARMA GIANT Sanofi has said that international Phase 3 clinical tests of its Kevzara drug for serious Covid-19 cases had proved inconclusive and it was halting the trial.
The Phase 3 test – normally the last before official approval for use – “did not meet the primary or secondary evaluation criteria compared with a placebo, and in both cases, compared with established hospital care,” it said in a statement.
Sanofi said neither it nor its American partner in developing the drug, Regeneron, “envisage further clinical tests of Kevzara for the treatment of Covid-19.”
Although Kevzara “did not give us the results we were hoping for, we are proud of the work done by our team,” Sanofi global research head Dr John Reed said in the statement.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic late last year in China, it has claimed more than 800,000 lives and caused huge economic damage, sparking a global race to find a vaccine and effective treatments.
Sanofi is one of many companies developing a vaccine but scientists are cautious in saying that at best, one may only be available by the end of this year for initial use.
- © AFP 2020.
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Which landfill is the nicest in the state?
Gortadroma was fantastic but the council closed it
@Neal, not Neil.: NIMBY – typical response by (fill in blank) rent-a-mouth politician.
There is an alternative. We could massacre everybody in Kildare. Some might find that a little extreme however. Johnny Brady as a Shinner might have some useful tips on how we could pull it off though.
Glass houses robespierre!
Are they waiting for the incinerator to open ?
….now, if only there was a method of disposing waste in an efficient manner, in a compact (internal) space, and which had a by-product of energy or heat production……………oh, wait, yeah. Nah, can’t have that. Much better to FU the landscape instead.
Muppets.
@John Moylan: Is it that you are unaware of the 600,000 tonne incineration facility currently in build at Ringsend? Or is it that it was just too good an opportunity to have a go at someone or something?
Well sure our waste has to go somewhere and everyone going to say not in my back yard.
@mickmc:
And what if a family has to leave their home. Because of toxic gas entering their home. They will have a lovely Christmas. They are Homless
Ah well sure at least it not my house.
The garden of Ireland is being used as a dump…yup, that pretty much sums up Ireland..
What a space of waste
Surely it’s a space of waste.
A good place for shooting rats
What did I just read there? The whole article doesn’t make sense? I thought there was only 7 open landfills in Ireland?
What about halting sites?
Well that’s a load of rubbish.
Hate to say this, but ever since the incident this year, where the goverment/local council or who ever the phek it is that stuck there noise into the pricing of disposing of waste. Decided it a good idea to try charge me for recycling waste, I am basically like (and I hate to say this) I couldn’t give two fúcks about what goes into the black bin. Whats the point, I am just going to get a price hike next year. I’m sure I am not alone on this and this is the result, along with privatization of the service, the waste service in Ireland is a mess.
Because some of what goes into the green bin does get recycled and avoids landfill. Do you presume 100% of the green bin is useful or has a recycle value. Thank the Chinese for wanting plastic and lots if cheap shipping to Asia or your bin charges would be alot higher. All black bin stuff is landfilled and its expensive to dispose of it correctly and don’t see you offering to be a landfill site. We all moaned about the incinerator yet rubbish has to go somewhere and there is finite space. Want to cut your waste bill? Cut the amount you bin, simple
Jack Raynors gonna be p1ssed xD.
That’s not fair?wicklow gets everything and the rest of us get nothing!
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