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The Eye of Sauron eternally seeketh thine cash cow.

Please understand Bird Flu: Part Deux is a supernatural force. At last night's seance the spirit medium relayed the message that Donald Rumsfeld is orchestrating this sequel from the underworld.

No new material from Hollywood or Langley- just reruns.

"A blast from the past and into the present: Donald Rumsfeld, Avian Flu Hoax, Gilead,Tamiflu, Remdesivir"

Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease.

More than 60 countries have so far ordered large stocks of the antiviral medication - the only oral medicine believed to be effective against the deadly H5N1 strain of the disease - to try to protect their people. The United Nations estimates that a pandemic could kill 150 million people worldwide.

Britain is about halfway through receiving an order of 14.6 million courses of the drug, which the Government hopes will avert some of the 700,000 deaths that might be expected. Tamiflu does not cure the disease, but if taken soon after symptoms appear it can reduce its severity.

The drug was developed by a Californian biotech company, Gilead Sciences. It is now made and sold by the giant chemical company Roche, which pays it a royalty on every tablet sold, currently about a fifth of its price.

Mr Rumsfeld was on the board of Gilead from 1988 to 2001, and was its chairman from 1997. He then left to join the Bush administration, but retained a huge shareholding .

The firm made a loss in 2003, the year before concern about bird flu started. Then revenues from Tamiflu almost quadrupled, to $44.6m, helping put the company well into the black. Sales almost quadrupled again, to $161.6m last year. During this time the share price trebled.

Mr Rumsfeld sold some of his Gilead shares in 2004 reaping - according to the financial disclosure report he is required to make each year - capital gains of more than $5m. The report showed that he still had up to $25m-worth of shares at the end of 2004, and at least one analyst believes his stake has grown well beyond that figure, as the share price has soared.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-rumsfeld-makes-5m-killing-on-bird-flu-drug-6106843.html

In 2001, shares of Gilead Sciences, Inc. traded in a range between $6.64 and $17.93. Between January and April 2006, its price range had been $53.00 to $65.62.

Today, March 3, 2024, shares are at $72.31.

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"2024 marks a new era for Gilead. We’re looking forward to innovation, continued growth and making an even greater impact as we advance our leading HIV prevention and treatment portfolio and accelerate cutting-edge treatments for cancer."

https://www.gilead.com/

"On April 25, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for Veklury® (remdesivir) for the treatment of pediatric patients who are older than 28 days, weighing at least 3 kg, and are either hospitalized with COVID-19 or have mild-to-moderate COVID-19 and are considered high risk for progression to severe COVID-19, including hospitalization or death.

This approval removed the need for a previously issued Emergency Use Authorization granted by the FDA enabling the use of Veklury to treat pediatric patients weighing 3.5 kg to less than 40 kg or pediatric patients less than 12 years of age weighing at least 3.5 kg with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing."

https://www.gilead.com/remdesivir

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Roger Sterling's avatar

Here's the thing....assuming 10% of the information is accurate (which I would argue is 99% accurate)....Sarah would still be describing a "crime against humanity" worthy of a Nuremberg 2.0. Pax

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