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Post by mango on Mar 17, 2020 18:25:28 GMT -5
1% of 100 million cases of Covid-19 in the US is 1 million patients with ARDS. Not insignificant. There is currently only 4,226 confirmed cases in the US. |
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Post by awesomo on Mar 17, 2020 18:48:38 GMT -5
1% of 100 million cases of Covid-19 in the US is 1 million patients with ARDS. Not insignificant. There is currently only 4,226 confirmed cases in the US. Key word being “confirmed” because of the abysmal lack of testing kits available to common people. The actual number is much higher. |
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Post by mango on Mar 17, 2020 18:51:18 GMT -5
There is currently only 4,226 confirmed cases in the US. Key word being “confirmed” because of the abysmal lack of testing kits available to common people. The actual number is much higher. I do not disagree with you there, but there is most certainly not 100,000 million people infected with it here. That would be nearly a 1/3 of the population. But anyways, not even close to 1M people with ARDS. That is absurd. Only 179,112 confirmed cases globally. |
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Post by Clement on Mar 17, 2020 18:56:42 GMT -5
Yet
The US government is not spending one trillion dollars on only 4,226 cases.
(Cramer tonight said the US government is spending 1.2 trillion on Covid-19.)
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Post by mnkdfann on Mar 17, 2020 19:06:58 GMT -5
There is currently only 4,226 confirmed cases in the US. Key word being “confirmed” because of the abysmal lack of testing kits available to common people. The actual number is much higher. As of a moment ago, there were 23 reported covid-19 deaths in the USA today. Working backwards, one can use that to reasonably deduce that there are over 17,000 true cases today (most of which are not yet diagnosed). That calculation, and others, are described in this article: medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca |
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Post by Clement on Mar 17, 2020 19:16:18 GMT -5
Mannkind is developing the new product for far more cases than you can calculate for today.
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Post by brotherm1 on Mar 17, 2020 19:35:31 GMT -5
“MannKind is committed to joining the global effort to overcome the COVID-19 crisis. MannKind’s formulation and drug development expertise as well as its excess manufacturing capacity will be deployed as necessary to help protect humankind from this global health crisis. “
What does this mean that MNKD will deploy it’s manufacturing capacity as necessary to help humankind from this global health crisis?
A few weeks ago the CEO said they need to expand manufacturing capacity for the production of trepostinil between now and two years from now when it’s expected to roll it out. Are they perhaps planning to expand it now so in the mean time that expansion could be used for production of COVID-19 currently approved treatment drugs for another company that needs more facilities to produce larger quantities?
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Post by peppy on Mar 17, 2020 19:53:06 GMT -5
When I went to their website, I saw nano technology. Technosphere does nano. Correct mango? immixbio.com |
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Post by longliner on Mar 17, 2020 19:56:53 GMT -5
Anthony Hooper was Amgens Australia guy. Maybe it's his connection. |
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Post by longliner on Mar 17, 2020 20:03:54 GMT -5
A collaboration with Immix makes no sense, although they do have a "nano-particle delivery vehicle" being used ( clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03382340 ) it's a phase 2 for cancer treatment. This PR makes me wonder if our CEO is setting himself up for a new job...  Obviously someone is looking for a new job.... |
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Post by neil36 on Mar 17, 2020 20:07:27 GMT -5
“MannKind is committed to joining the global effort to overcome the COVID-19 crisis. MannKind’s formulation and drug development expertise as well as its excess manufacturing capacity will be deployed as necessary to help protect humankind from this global health crisis. “ What does this mean that MNKD will deploy it’s manufacturing capacity as necessary to help humankind from this global health crisis? A few weeks ago the CEO said they need to expand manufacturing capacity for the production of trepostinil between now and two years from now when it’s expected to roll it out. Are they perhaps planning to expand it now so in the mean time that expansion could be used for production of COVID-19 currently approved treatment drugs for another company that needs more facilities to produce larger quantities? I had the same thoughts when I read the press release. It makes it sound like there is plenty of excess capacity, which stands in stark contrast to his recent comment in multiple forums that “We’re going to need a bigger boat.” With that said, I hope, as much as anyone here, that a much bigger boat is needed soon. |
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Post by uvula on Mar 17, 2020 20:08:29 GMT -5
Possibly MC found a new way to attract a big pharma company to purchase mnkd.
(I realize this is pure speculation not based on any actual evidence. )
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Post by sportsrancho on Mar 17, 2020 20:10:22 GMT -5
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Post by cedafuntennis on Mar 17, 2020 20:13:22 GMT -5
Mannkind is developing the new product for far more cases than you can calculate for today. And if this case works out, regardless of how many patients WORLDWIDE it will have, the really big prize will be the proof that it's technology works and it can be easily retooled for many purposes. This is HUGE but only IF it works out. |
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Post by mango on Mar 17, 2020 20:14:14 GMT -5
When I went to their website, I saw nano technology. Technosphere does nano. Correct mango? immixbio.comI don't know. They have a lot of nanoparticle references in their patents, but I've never seen that size mentioned specifically. I think nano is considered 1-100 nanometers. Not sure...Maybe someone else knows more. |
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