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Thanks, Techxen! I saw this, but my mind hits a brick wall when I try and read "tiacagrelor." 'Go Dog, Go' never prepared me for that word.
I think we're due for a PR update on a few things this week. Specifically, I would like to know not just how much we are manufacturing, but also a rough percentage of how much is due to actual sales demand and how much (if any) is due to demand anticipation (filters stored, but not yet sold).
Would also like a PR update on what the docs in the German hospitals thought of our filter when used on their COVID patients, I expect only good news on that front.
$12.00 by June!
Question for Salz, Black, and other Smart Guys: if leronlimab shows good results in treating COVID 19, does this also suggest success against the NEXT corona-type virus? That is, once Covid 19 burns itself out - and given how hard it is to develop vaccines against these things - could leronlimab be our best bullet for viruses like these for years to come?
Good stuff, Techxen, thanks! Question: Your time permitting, what do you think the top 3 drivers of our SP will be from now till year's end, and when do you expect these catalysts to occur?
Any "wild cards" you know of (that might be off the radar right now) that could rock the boat for better or worse?
As always, thanks for your research and posts!
Anyone know if leronlimab might have any efficacy against chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, a disease that causes obstructed airflow from the lungs)?
I just read where Ian Anderson (of Jethro Tull fame) has COPD and may have just a short time left.
Would blocking the CCR5 receptor have any effect on slowing/stopping COPD?
China is run by communists. Mao was the most prolific murderer in human history. Communists killed over 100 million people in the 20th century and, thanks to their "one child" policy, they killed the unborn children that would have been little brothers or sisters. Communists kill, they always have and will, and if more proof was needed, we have their attempted coverup of Covid 19, how it originated and how quickly it spreads.
So, a headline says China is hacking companies workign on vaccines? Speechless, I'm shocked.
Good stuff, Black Ops, thanks for the lesson! I'm getting a decent education on this board, I really enjoy your first-hand experiences and anecdotes. That visual of the truck full of $100 bills will stay with me for a while, I could finally afford that '68 Hemi Charger.
Thanks Chuckles and Black Ops, I learned a lot from both your replies!
I asked about the "poison pill" clause because the other stock I'm in has verbiage in place that makes it very expensive for a hostile takeover.
Regardless, thanks again, and here's to saving lives and another great week!
Question for Black Ops and others: Regarding the possibility of a hostile takeover by some BP company, does CYDY have some defense against this possibility, i.e., some "poison pill" clause that would make such a thing prohibitively expensive for the buyer?
Timeline Question for Black Ops and Others:
First, thanks for all the informative posts, I'm learning a lot. Second - as a shareholder since 27 March, I am trying to get an idea of a probable/expected timeline of CYDY major events for the next 12 months.
Can anyone give a projection on what they expect re: FDA approvals or study completions for COVID 19, HIV, Cancer, or other possible milestones?
Just trying to ground my expectations. Thanks in advance for any opinions, and here's hoping Black Ops' grandkids can retire before they finish high school.
Here's some quick feedback from CG on the yahoo board, I put him right up there with Techxen and Canes and orange and Andy and etc. Though Dwight (Berthabluefish) has his own wing in the CTSO Hall of Fame.
The question posed to CG was what he thought of our Tuesday call results:
"@lawrence, I saw your first post. I'm still crafting my complete response. In short, the report / call was overwhelmingly positive. It's probably the most significantly positive report / call in the past 9+ years since CE Mark was announced in March 2011, kicking off CytoSorb commercialization. Yes, I was definitely pleasantly surprised by multiple items. I will post more later."
Of all the things to cause an inflection point, it looks like the trigger was the Chinese Communist party. At least we have the chance to save lots of lives, so congrats to all mediums and longs!
Thanks BlackOps and Bobsmob and Ohm20 and others who replied to my Adam Feuerstein/deliberate distortion question.
Your expertise is much appreciated, and I believe CYDY has saved many lives and will save many more!
Question for Black Ops and Salz and other experienced investors: What is your opinion of Adam Feuerstein?
I own 2 stocks - CYDY and CTSO - and he has trashed them both with very misleading, one-sided opinions. Not to sound too naive, but what drives someone to deliberately misrepresent a stock, especially one(s) with the potential to mitigate suffering and save lives?
I don't really get how the whole shorting a stock process works, but big picture, I just wonder how such seemingly intlligent people can so repeatedly and egregiously misrepresent the truth. I'm all for full discolosure on a company and its products, but the way he seems to omit important facts to inflate the negatives borders on criminal.
Any insights into why they do what they do?
Good to see you post again, Techxen! I've no idea what happened, but congrats on getting banned by Stocktwits, sounds like a resume' enhancer.
Any expectations for Tuesday? I'm actually less interested in the latest sales numbers than I am about updates on COVID 19 treatment stats and other 'big picture' news.
Excellent post, Vino! The simplicity of our filter (in terms of its application) plus its safety seem to be best in class re: other cytokine mitigation solutions. Throw in the fact that it actually works (if used early and consistently) and I believe our product should be a case study in what is so wrong with the FDA.
If a small start-up company has what looks like a life-saving product, even just anecdotally (though the evidence must be compelling), there should be a streamlined process to get it approved. The CE Mark process in the European Union should NOT be a swifter path than our FDA's. In short, a taxpayer funded bureacracy should be doing all it can to save the lives of taxpayers, not save the jobs of the bureaucrats...which means people in the FDA should be Advocates, Not Obstacles to medical progress.
Unfortunately, just like the IRS or the DOD, the FDA will resist change at every turn. But who knows, maybe this COVAD 19 can shake the process up, maybe the FDA can become more an advisory board and less an IRS-like regulatory fortress that keeps products like ours off the market for years.
I like your thinking, Orange. And to quote Oddball in Kellys Heroes,
"Crazy... I mean like, so many positive waves... maybe we can't lose!"
Thanks, Murph and Orange, I didn't know Actemra was tocilizumab. And when I see ECMO, I'm spring-loaded to assume it's used in conjunction with our filter. I also had forgotten (read: didn't know) that Mr Bartlett was our CMO for many years; do you think he would ever partner with us on some SOC recommendation, i.e., when a patient needs ECMO, they should also always use us?
Hello Techx, Raptor, Orange, Murph, Orange, and etc, have you seen this story posted on Yahoo?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/emergency-room-doctor-near-death-054816082.html
I thought for a moment this Dr was saved by ECMO/CTSO, but instead it was ECMO/Actemra.
Do any of you know - is Actemra one of our frequently listed competitors? I believe it's a drug, not a device, but I'm unaware of any drug that works as well as our filter.
Would be very interested to see how the ECMO/Actemra solution stacks up against ECMO/Cytosorbents filter.
Hence the correct name for COVAD 19, the "Communist Chinese" virus.
Now, what do you say, CTSO, let's save some lives!
Great find, Vinovista! Question: Does anyone have any idea what sort of boost this EUA gives to us for FDA approval? In other words, does anyone know of other devices or drugs that were given this temporary approval, that later went on to get "permanent" FDA approval? Is approval now almost sure thing, or is it still a multi-year wait and see.
Just trying to get a handle on what this means to the company.
As for the end-user, I know what it means, many will now have a fighting chance to live.
Hello, hemo, question: Do you - or does anyone else on this board - have any connection to doctors in the German university hospitals that have used our device? Or connections to any of our German sales reps?
If so, I would love to know any possible link (rumored or documented) between the lower mortality rate and our filter. If getting some positive FDA/BARDA news is our biggest potential accelerator, I think some kind of published linkage between our filter and Germany's lower fatality rate would be #2.
We used to have someone on this board (I forget his moniker, but maybe it was Ceasar something) that claimed to have a sales connection in Europe, but I'm not sure if his info ever panned out.
Thanks, Murph, interesting read. I'm tempted to write to Dr Chan or others at the company with some questions re: specific numbers, but if they had relevant news, they would be obliged to release it. I'll let Canes be our conduit and let the employees do their jobs.
Good short piece on the FDA power grab and how it's cost so many promising medical devices and American innovation/jobs. And lives.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/its-time-track-fdas-death-toll
Good point, Good sport. When the dust settles, I think our company will have a much stronger foothold in the world marketplace as well. It' a hell of a way to get publicity, but if we get good word of mouth and lots of positive case studies coming out of this, we're going to look like a very attractive investment, especially compared to many other sectors.
For example, I have a hard time believing we're going to have a boatlad of investors itching to get back into Boeing and Tesla, because if employment is down and money is tight, well, what airlines will be expanding? How many new car buyers are going to shell out 2x the $ for an electric car when you can get gas at nearly-historic low prices?
Today's price action notwithstanding, CTSO could be at the start of a very long, positive run. And if we get something fast-tracking with FDA?
You're right, Good Sport, this is a good place to be.
Thanks for sharing the email, Murph! Good to know it's not so hard to get in US if needed, the doctor just has to know about it. But that, I suppose, is the problem.
Great stuff, Canes, THANKS for your work!
Raptor, my opinion (worthless, btw) is the FDA is responding just like any other barnacle-laden tub of a bureacracy, it's very slow to change.
Decades of intertia, of "this is the way we've always done it," takes a lot of focused effort and pain to change. And people, even scientists and MD's, can be resistant to change, it's just human nature to be biased against most things new, PARTICULARLY when it might ruffle the feathers of your Big Pharma peers.
Too few at the FDA want to stick their neck out on a non-drug solution, not without having all the usual clinical studies and proof, end of the world and/or viral Armageddon be damned.
But that was some rarefied air we breathed for awhile at $8.00, I nearly had to tap my oxygen bottle.
I had the same experience on the yahoo board. Just stated the facts and mentioned CTSO and my comment was poof'd.
Thanks, techxen. If what you state is true re: the FDA and how they think of medical devices, this puts Dr Chan in a tough spot. He needs the FDA to approve our product, so he has to make sure he doens't "upset" them, even if the whole country is locked down. They are the gatekeepers, and if he tries to go above their heads to the media or politicians, he will anger the FDA beast and they may just leave us swinging in the wind.
I would like to think the president could intervene, but he has so much on his plate, odds are slim. Also, we've seen the swamp can be very hard to drain, so unless it's a very direct and specific directive to do something,
i.e., approve our product, the swamp finds a way to delay, delay, delay.
Like the IRS, the FDA must be thoroughly revamped, if not flushed. It's become a kingdom of bureaucrats without any check, balance, or control.
Question for techxen and the rest: if we get BARDA approval, does that mean we are FDA approved for use in the US? Would it just be for corona-related cases? If so, and if we're trying to stop the same cytokine storm we see in sepsis, then why would they draw the line at just corona? In short, my frst question is, will BARDA approval open the door for CTSO to all patients who need/request the filter regardless of the cytokine storm cause?
And my second question is - if we do get BARDA approval, does that mean we don't have to spend $20,000,000 on a double blind, multi-arm, multi-year, mass enrollment clinical study that will always be 3 years away? If we show good real world results in the next few months, could we get FDA approval for use of the filter for any cytokine-related issue without a giant clinical study?
Thanks!
Agreed, Orange. Great find, Techxen! Gave me a (good) chill, and I loved how the article made it abundantly clear that our filter was the life-saving device.
Good stuff, Murph, thanks for this post and all your others!
I just wish President Trump would stop calling it the "Chinese" virus.
Instead, he should call it the "Communist Chinese" virus.
Communists never change. They did adopt a quasi-capitalist economic system the last 35 years, but just like a zebra can't change its stripes, neither can a communist. Their rulers ALWAYS wind up starving, exiling, re-educating, and murdering people by the millions.
In short, after a brief hiatus, the Chinese Communists of the 21st century are just picking up where Mao and the rest of his 20th century ilk left off. The more I read about how the brave Chinese doctors and health care workes tried to warn the world - but were interrogated/imprisoned /disappeared by the communist hierarchy - the more incensed I become.
The blood of this pandemic is on the hands of the Chinese Communists.
NO ONE should be surprised.
Really appreciate your email sharing! Between the PR's, it's the only insight I have into the state of things at the company. I hope Dr Chan finds time to get some rest, he must be going 24/7. Does he have a wife and kids as well? If so, must be a tough schedule to juggle.
Powerful information, firefighter. Thank you very much for your critically important work! Without people like you, there would be much less people like me. I will keep you and other health care workers in my prayers, and please continue your diligent efforts to stay virus free. I hope you can see your family again soon, and may God Bless you and your work!
Question: When you tell the doctors/nurses/administrators about our filter, how do they react? Disbelief? Skeptical?
Hello, Black Ops! First, great moniker. Second, I'm a new shareholder as of Friday, and will add more on Monday, it sounds like you guys have a real game changer here. And Third, I totally support calling this pandemic the Chinese virus because it is the truth. It started in China, period. More to the point, the Chinese Communist government was the single biggest cold-blooded killing machine in the history of humanity, and that's covering a lot of ground. As you know - but others apparently don't want to know or are too afrid or PC to admit - the Chinese Communist government tried to suppress knowledge of this virus because it made them look bad, and saving face in Asian cultures may often outweigh telling the truth. The Chinese Communist governemnt imprisoned or interrogated those who tried to sound the alarm and they are culpable and responsible for all the mayhem and death that has resulted. Perhaps a better name for the Corona virus would be the Communist Chinese virus, we can only hope.
In any event, may God bless the efficacy of this product to save lives, and let's keep those suffering from the Chinese Communist virus in our prayers.
And may God Bless America!
Hello Canes and fantom and green, I read your comments re: the video conference today and it sounds like no mention was made of CTSO. Did any of you hear other specific products mentioned by any of the speakers? Just wondering why our filter didn't at least get a mention. Does anyone know if Dr Chan was in the listening/viewing audience?
MANY THNAKS, Techxen! Outstanding info about our competition. I spent 45 minutes w Dr Chan about 6 years ago and to me, he's a down-to-earth straight shooter, i.e., very honest. So if oXiris was a serious competitive threat, I think he would have said words to that effect. And maybe I'm reading too much between the lines, but his comment from late 2018. . ."and all I would say is that just because you have a label for reduction in Cytokines doesn't mean that it will actually work" could be very telling.
In short, he believes oXiris works for Cytokine reduction, just not as well as ours.
Just my take.
Many thanks for your usual A+ response!
And I agree about "CG" on the yahoo board, you two should be on the CTSO marketing/publicity payroll.
Thanks, techxen! Question: Regarding Baxter's oXiris "3 in 1" solution, besides the CTSO's advantage (in the question of not requiring heparin for anticoagulation), are you aware of any other advantages or reasons why our hospital customers in Germany keep reordering our device and not oXiris?
In other words, is the heparin concern large enough that it drives the purchase of the Cytosorbent filter over oXiris?
I am learning more about our competition with the advent of Corona, I would just like to be clear on what our filter does that our big Pharma competition solutions can't.
And thanks again for all your info and posts!
100% Agree. If no safety issues, why the delay?
Classic example of bureacractic inertia and inaction. A slave to process and regulations, none of that outside-the-box thinkin' going on here!
Let's hope executive authority cracks the FDA wall!
Thanks, Techxen! Your answer is completely logical...but I still find massive volume hard to square with the flattish nature of the SP today. But at least we're out of the $3's and $4's and hopefully on our way into the teens and $20's. Still no downside to this product, and if we do hit 80 million filters in the next 12 months, I think a billion dollar valuation is totally justified...which puts us about $30/share.
Making money and saving lives, not a bad investment!
Can any stock guy explain how - with so many shares being traded - how we are almost flat-lined at $6.00? I would think with such a surge in volume we would see a stairstep up or (if not good news) a stairstep down.
How can such a surge in activity result in a flat-line result?