Gsk Share Discussion Threads

[montedawnster] 20/2/2020 09:54

....So you have dropped 90k in just one month. Going to take 10 dividend payments to recover that.

[tradermichael] 20/2/2020 09:39

23p per share ex dividend today. My £9.8K dividend will buy some more GSK shares come payment on 9th April ….. ;o)

On to Q1 next (19p per share ;0))

[grahamburn] 19/2/2020 13:59

Agree with Woodhawk... CtR isn't adding information which specifically relates to GSK. May be vaguely interesting in a general discussion of disease control but in reality it's very peripheral to enhancing fact-based knowledge.

So, like Woodhawk, filter button is the only option now for Crossing the Rubicon.

[keyno] 19/2/2020 11:49

Nothing wrong with chats on a women's night out, Montedawnster. Beats talking about sport and cars any day. ;)

Agree with your first sentence though. I've had CTR on filter for months now.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 19/2/2020 11:10

"The next two weeks are critical - CoronaVirus pandemic"

Breakdown:

30% deaths in 60's,
30% in 70's,
20% in 80's
20% under 60.

Men & women equally represented amongst confirmed cases, deaths 64% men.

Kids spared.

NYTimes
Covid-19 20x deadlier than FLU. (22mins 50 secs in)

R0 was over 3, maybe as high as 6.7

[tradermichael] 19/2/2020 11:07

Reasons to be cheerful:
1. Ex dividend day tomorrow …. 23p per share

[woodhawk] 19/2/2020 10:40

Crossing_the_Rubicon - idiot. Filtered.

[tradermichael] 19/2/2020 07:51

GlaxoSmithKline (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Voltaren Arthritis Pain (diclofenac sodium topical gel, 1% (NSAID)- arthritis pain reliever) as an over-the-counter (OTC) product for the temporary relief of arthritis pain in the hand, wrist, elbow, foot, ankle or knee in adults (18 years and older). With the FDA's approval, Voltaren Arthritis Pain becomes the first and only prescription strength, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) topical gel for arthritis pain available OTC in the United States.
Voltaren Gel, which GSKCH owns the rights to, is currently only available with a prescription in the US. Today's OTC approval of Voltaren Arthritis Pain will provide the nearly 30 million Americans with osteoarthritisi over-the-counter access to this topical treatment option.

[montedawnster] 18/2/2020 22:23

Perhaps you might all like to stick to the program and discuss GSK share price here. You are chattering like a women's night out.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 21:17

Coronavirus "Lab Leakage" Rumors Spreading
A Wuhan lab affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences has sought to dispel rumors that it “made and leaked” the highly infectious
pneumonic virus that led to the still-raging global outbreak. The Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in the provincial capital of Hubei, which is the ground zero of the contagion, has been thrust into the media spotlight by the allegation last week
that it leaked “bio-hazardous agents.”

Posts circulating on WeChat and Weibo claim that a researcher at the institute was the first to be infected by the novel coronavirus,
now called Covid-19 by the World Health Organization.

The female virologist and a graduate from the institute, referred to as “patient zero,” had never visited the city’s shambolic wet market
– also known as the “zoo” – where a range of wild animals were sold. The market has been identified by the authorities as the most
probable source of the deadly pathogen.

Richard Ebright, a biology professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, told the BBC that genomic sequencing of the coronavirus showed no proof that it had been artificially modified, yet he could not rule out the possibility
that the unfolding pandemic could be the result of a “lab incident.”

Also, a paper that appeared in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet at the end of last month has lent credibility to speculation
about the origins of the virus. The paper quoted seven doctors at Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital as saying that the first patient admitted
on December 1 had “never been to the wet market,” nor had there been any epidemiological link between the first patient and subsequent
infection cases, based on the data from the first 41 patients treated there.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 21:16

Covid-19 Pandemic: The Complacent Are Clueless
Here's a sampling of complacent assertions being made about the COVID-19 virus as if they were certitudes:

It's no worse than a bad cold.
It's less deadly than a normal flu.
You can't catch it unless you're in sustained close contact with a carrier.
Carriers are only contagious for 14 days. After that, you're home free.
A vaccine is just around the corner.
The Chinese government has it under control.
Only 2,000 people have died, it's no big deal.
The few cases in other countries are being managed, and it will soon disappear.
The pandemic will fade away by April due to rising temperatures.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 21:15

Gilead's COVID-19 Drug Trial In Wuhan Is Already Facing Serious Delays
Video footage seen by WSJ shows that the Gilead drug, known as remdesivir, was first administered intravenously on Feb. 6 to
a 68-year-old man who had developed severe symptoms and was treated at Jinyintan Hospital.

Other than remedesivir, the antimalarial drug chloroquine and the influenza drug favipiravir have also been shown to be effective
in the treatment of patients. Meanwhile, Sun Yanrong, another official at the ministry,
said separately on Monday that, based on preliminary clinical trials results, chloroquine has proven effective in treating
the virus with no immediate side-effects.

Chinese state-owned drug giants including China Resources Pharmaceutical and China Medicine Health are ratcheting up production of
drugs like chloroquine that have proven effective at treating patients infected with the virus.

Japan Today reports that Japan is planning a trial to test the efficacy of various HIV medications on patients infected with
COVID-19 as more experts raise the possibility that the virus was bioengineered.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 11:53

Zhou Shunxin, a police officer in #Xinjiang, suddenly collaspes while walking. Officail report says vaguely that he "passed out" at the frone line of #COVID2019 control, and sent to the hospital, but doesn't talke about why he collasped or his current status. #Coronavirus



Interesting comment

"This isn't the first cop to drop, they ran obituaries of 8 policemen in official media around Jan 25th.
It stuck in my mind because of # in one day. All were 35+, Han, working in Hubei, with distinguished service records, of supervisor rank or higher & died of "heart attacks"

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 09:52

Ultimately this Covi-19 worry could just boil down to decent hygiene.

Unfortunately there are now many in the UK especially whose hygiene is severely lacking.

And ones own hygiene is only as good as those who live around us and commute to work alongside us.

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 09:29

Talking about the Cruise liner

Coronavirus: Is the Puzzling Silence From Officials The Calm Before The Storm?



Peak Prosperity

Worth a follow for those that are interested in keeping up to date on Covid-19 imo.


This was an interesting comment for starters...
"Vietnam quarantines are with over 10,000 residents over CoronaVirus - 6 cases found from 13th Feb. First mass quarantine outside of China,not in the news"

[crossing_the_rubicon] 18/2/2020 09:28

"EssentialInvestor17 Feb '20 - 22:42 - 20722 of 20728
Couple of possible reasons, higher smoking rates in China"

Irrelevant according to studies.
Peak prosperity had a video on this "Smoking angle" in the last few days.

[pugugly] 18/2/2020 08:06

Possible silver lining could be to buy Byotrol - BYOT- If they are able to take advantage of the market opportunity -

[dr biotech] 18/2/2020 07:31

Floating Petri dish is the best description I’ve heard. Something’s been overlooked on there air con & water supply *should* both be ok as these are known risks food/hand rails etc...I’m sure they have more qualified people than us looking into it. Whatever the cause it’s an astonishing number now that have seemingly contracted it whilst in quarantine.

[purplepelmets] 18/2/2020 04:03

ctr, he's deffo a remoaner. you can smell the angst a mile away.

[essentialinvestor] 17/2/2020 23:03

Pete, yes indeed air conditioning has been mentioned.

Hopefully it will just be sparodic outbreaks here,
however would not bet any money on that one.

[cheshire pete] 17/2/2020 22:55

Agree, not familiar with cruise ships but if they have a shared ventilation system to cabins / corridors then 'isolation' may not be that effective.

[essentialinvestor] 17/2/2020 22:48

What's perhaps a little concerning is just how many became infected on
that ship. Hopefully though the falality rate estimates for this virus will
fall well below 1%. Seasonal flu is usually around 0.01-0.02%..

Pnumomia kills tens of thousands of people in Europe every year, it gets little
attention as it's a constant. Many of those will be elderly/ immunocompromised.