
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/addendum-to-luvox-post
In my post yesterday, I quoted a Vox article describing work by Dr. Ed Mills and others to get the FDA to approve Luvox for COVID. As of that point, the FDA didn't know how to process an application without a sponsoring drug company:
[Professor Ed] Mills, who thinks that fluvoxamine and budesonide are both appropriate to prescribe to patients sick with Covid-19, compares public messaging on fluvoxamine to communications about Merck's drug molnupiravir. The evidence for molnupiravir is in many ways weaker than the evidence for fluvoxamine, but molnupiravir was produced by a major pharmaceutical company that can shepherd it through the process of becoming a recommended drug. On a call last week, Mills said, the FDA told him "they don't know how to deal with submissions where there isn't someone to be responsible for it."
But it looks like just as I published, he and his colleagues found a way around the problem:
By Jeremiah4.8
129129 ratings
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/addendum-to-luvox-post
In my post yesterday, I quoted a Vox article describing work by Dr. Ed Mills and others to get the FDA to approve Luvox for COVID. As of that point, the FDA didn't know how to process an application without a sponsoring drug company:
[Professor Ed] Mills, who thinks that fluvoxamine and budesonide are both appropriate to prescribe to patients sick with Covid-19, compares public messaging on fluvoxamine to communications about Merck's drug molnupiravir. The evidence for molnupiravir is in many ways weaker than the evidence for fluvoxamine, but molnupiravir was produced by a major pharmaceutical company that can shepherd it through the process of becoming a recommended drug. On a call last week, Mills said, the FDA told him "they don't know how to deal with submissions where there isn't someone to be responsible for it."
But it looks like just as I published, he and his colleagues found a way around the problem:

1,998 Listeners

2,670 Listeners

26,343 Listeners

4,277 Listeners

2,459 Listeners

590 Listeners

905 Listeners

291 Listeners

739 Listeners

586 Listeners

705 Listeners

532 Listeners

5,560 Listeners

369 Listeners

155 Listeners