COVID-19:ギリアド、レムデシビルに期待:しかし既存事業に不確実性(動画):
COVID-19:Gilead Caught Between Making a Profit and Treating the World:
COVID-19:吉利德陷入营利与善待世界之间
2020年5月1日 7:54 JST
COVID-19:ギリアド
- コロナ感染拡大で、HIVやC型肝炎治療薬の患者数が減少
- 米当局は、ギリアドのレムデシビルの緊急使用を近く許可
米ギリアド・サイエンシズ
4月30日、新型コロナウイルス/パンデミックが、ギリアドの今後の事業に、かなりの不確実性があると指摘されている。
米当局、新型コロナ感染症の治療で同社の抗ウイルス薬レムデシビルの緊急使用を近く許可する。
- ギリアドは、レムデシビル生産能力拡充のため、重要な投資を実施。
- 来月末まで、14万回分余り、年末まで、100万回分余りを製造。
ギリアドの株価:
レムデシビルへの期待感で年初から30日の通常取引終了時まで29%上昇した。
しかし、この日の時間外取引では一時1.6%下落した。
Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2020-04-30/Q9MB5CDWX2PS01?srnd=cojp-v2
Gilead Caught Between Making a Profit and Treating the World
Drugmaker appears near approval for its Covid-19 treatment
Company may spend $1 billion on drug this year, sales unknown
The company
has pledged to donate 1.5 million vials of the drug, its entire current supply,
while O’Day
said it is working with other major pharmaceutical companies to boost production of the medication, which must be given intravenously.
Geoff Porges, an analyst at SVB Leerink LLC,
asked what he termed a controversial question on Gilead’s first-quarter earnings call on Thursday.
What’s special about Covid?”
Porges asked.
Should we assume the capital returns and the profitability for providing a global treatment for Covid long-term, after the first 200,000 or 300,000 courses are provided on a donation basis?
The CEO
said it would be premature to discuss potential revenue because there are “a lot of moving parts right now.
He said Gilead would seek to come up with a sustainable model that would benefit patients around the world.
Bloomberg