Malvy, who plans to describe the data in detail at a Wednesday morning presentation, explained that the trial did not initially intend to analyze the outcome of patients by
different viral loads.
Not exact matches
This additional information will help in the next steps of the research, which involve more detailed study of the PD - 1 at
different points in its pathway and with
different viral or tumor
loads.
Genial and soft - spoken, Essex shoots down Duesberg's ideas about ARVs by saying: «There are now 15 or 20
different drugs that act in 8 or 10
different ways, and the only thing they have in common is that they inhibit the virus from replicating and lower the
viral load to negligible levels.
Those other methods included condom use, seroadapive behaviors (such as taking
different positions during intercourse to reduce transmission risk) and treatment as prevention (which could reduce the «
viral load» and make it less likely to transfer).
Other studies that have more carefully analyzed Ebola
viral loads have found that at least four
different levels correlate with
different mortality rates, which suggests the supposed benefit of favipiravir seen might disappear if more precise measures were compared.