Govt. Stockpiles More Medicine for Treating

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) is stockpiling medicine for treating Covid-19 with more being bought amid the third outbreak which has infected more than 4,000 people.

 

The GPO has ordered the stockpiling of Favipiravir with the drug now reserved for treating Covid-19 sufferers and being distributed to medical facilities to ensure they receive a constant supply. As of Monday, the GPO had 411,200 Favipiravir tablets in its stock with half a million more on order.

 

Favipiravir is an antiviral medication used to treat influenza in Japan. It is known for stopping viruses from duplicating and has been used to treat Covid-19. Thailand has been importing Favipiravir, mostly from Japan, to treat Covid-19 patients with moderate to severe symptoms since January last year.

 

The GPO is also likely to import the Moderna vaccine, although the vaccine has not yet been registered with the FDA. If and when the registration is complete, it is expected to arrive in Thailand in August.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Moderna would be welcomed as well as Pfizer if they could arrange that as well.  Start getting the vaccination program moving instead of at a crawl.  1 month in and only 500,000 vaccinated and many of those with only the first dose. Why did it take a wave like we are seeing to start the process moving......

Edited April 13, 2021 by ThailandRyan

[internationalism]

this medicine, as generic, is made also in china and india, and probably cheaper than japanese.

those 900k is for some 30-40k patients. Might be short, if thousands needing it for around 10 days.

 

The GPO makes their own and cheap azithromycin (approved recently by who) and tamiflu (that's another another generic antiviral, used in thailand for covid at the beginning of the last year).  

 

todays article on th same subject in bangkok post states, that sputnik can he in thailand in early june and j&j in october. Also for 2k per dose. No quantities mentioned

Edited April 13, 2021 by internationalism

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Moderna would be welcomed as well as Pfizer if they could arrange that as well.  Start getting the vaccination program moving instead of at a crawl.  1 month in and only 500,000 vaccinated and many of those with only the first dose. Why did it take a wave like we are seeing to start the process moving......

Adverse publicity.

[mtls2005]

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The GPO is also likely to import the Moderna vaccine, although the vaccine has not yet been registered with the FDA. If and when the registration is complete, it is expected to arrive in Thailand in August.

 

Interesting news.

 

 

[danferguson]

19 hours ago, internationalism said:

this medicine, as generic, is made also in china and india, and probably cheaper than japanese.

those 900k is for some 30-40k patients. Might be short, if thousands needing it for around 10 days.

The GPO makes their own and cheap azithromycin (approved recently by who) and tamiflu (that's another another generic antiviral, used in thailand for covid at the beginning of the last year).  

 

 

And have any of these drugs been involved in large scale clinical trials for Covid?

 

If not, then the scientific description is "clutching at straws"

[internationalism]

but favipiravir has also tentative/mixed evidence, same as ivermectin, colchicine. Yet million doses were already purchased.

All of them cheap, available and can be made locally by any small pharma company.

 

yes, azithromycin is used from the very beginning together with chloroqine/hydroxychloroqine, to prevent bacterial co-infection.

 

around 1000 medicines are researched now for re-purposing for covid. There would be always problem with price and availability. If any medicine make to the list, it becomes restricted drug, on special prescription or reserved only for hospitals.

Here the most promising

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-drugs-treatments.html

 

 

Edited April 14, 2021 by internationalism