Fujifilm says COVID-19 drug research may drag on into July

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Fujifilm Holdings Corp's research on Avigan as a potential treatment for COVID-19 may drag on until July, the company said on Sunday, a further setback in the Japanese firm's race to find a vaccine.

FILE PHOTO: Tablets of Avigan , a drug approved as an anti-influenza drug in Japan and developed by drug maker Toyama Chemical Co, a subsidiary of Fujifilm Holdings Co. are displayed during a photo opportunity at Fujifilm's headquarters in Tokyo October 22, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

“There is a possibility that clinical trials will continue in July,” a Fujifilm spokesman said, responding to a Nikkei report that any approval will be delayed until July or later, due to a lack of patients for trials. But researchers have only been able to get around 70% of the patients needed for the trials, and because it takes 28 days to get results, the process will continue until at least July, the Nikkei business daily said, citing an unnamed source.

Drugmakers around the world are scrambling to develop a vaccine for the new coronavirus, which has infected nearly 7 million people globally, while the disease it causes, COVID-19, has killed nearly 400,000.

 

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What does Kodachrome have to say? We need a meaningful dialogue here....

the 🌎 world urgently needs a covid19 vaccine... but can we all trust that 🇯🇵 japanese corporation 'Fuji Film' can really make it and make it perfectly effective and safe for humans.. 🧐🧐🧐

Thanks ,good statement to keep the share price stable. 👎👎

What year?

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Let's hope no labs were looted to cause a delay

'may'.....😆may drag into july or august or .... 😆

Don’t believe the “Chinese” words, regardless of gender, they are good at disguising, they like to take advantage of it, don’t believe Chinese men, they are the most serious sexist women, and this kind of self-destruction is harmful to the whole

Meh. We are already over it.

Fear is key, us this really the best you got?

What the .

I wonder how Nikon is doing

That's just make me laugh Fujifilm is a drug maker.

Wow that's interesting! Fujifilm seem to have diversified. They make pretty good cameras too. And their color 400 ISO film brought me a lit of joy.

Or August or September or...

Like that’s just a couple of weeks away so.....

Mainstream Media Lied to Us Again. Why should we believe ANYTHING YOU SAY?

Hopefully Sony is doing better.

Oh well

Go trump

Fujifilm is a pharma company now What?

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