A Different View on LEAPS/Covid
Everyone here seems pretty pessimistic about the LEAPS treatment results that were released today. But I think differently than most of you about this. Yes they did see how effective it was as a vaccine, who cares. BUT they also looked at it as a therapeutic treatment.
For those of you who don't know what that is, here is the defintion:
Therapeutic treatment is designed to treat an illness or to improve a person's health, rather than to prevent an illness.
They injected mice with LETHAL doses of COVID and in the treatment group, 40% survived. That's pretty huge imo. For two reasons.
1. There isn't a current therapeutic treatment that works well in helping people recover from COVID who already have it. Remdesivir was supposedly one of the big ones, which has since shown it doesn't really help patients recover from COVID.
2. They gave these mice LETHAL doses. And it saved 40% of them. No current treatment offers anything like that. On top of that I wonder how effective it is treating/improving COVID symptoms in more minor cases or at the beginning of the disease?
Bonus 3rd reason: COVID will always need a viable treatment option for patients going forward for years and years to come. Hospitals will want options to give to patients to help them get out of the hospitals quickly. There is still time and need for more therapeutic medicines. This is by no means a nothing burger.
TLDR: There is a lot of potential here for treating patients already infected with COVID. If they can get some more funding this could be accelerated quickly.
