COVID-19 and the Nation's Hospitals Disagreeable news with regard to the nation's hospitals is their unpreparedness to face a sudden crisis, let alone an unexpected and unprecedented pandemic. The system the hospitals are running on has been causing problems for a some time now, not just since the Coronavirus pandemic. Since the COVID-19 cases have been rushed to hospitals many unwarranted, unacceptable, intolerable and dangerous …

The Week in Review #49 The Stars from the Weeks Preceding the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak  Forty Seven Forty Seven (FTSV) was added to the

Fluctuations and Volatility in the Market Only history can remind us that what’s going on recently with the stock market is not new. Similar situations have taken place during the terms of every president since Ronald Reagan. Indeed, the same stock market’s unexpected tumbling occurred during Reagan, Bush the father, Clinton, Bush the son, Obama and now Trump. As a matter of fact, history reminds …

Treating and Preventing COVID-19 Treating COVID-19, Gilead Sciences With regard to treating patients with COVID-19 we believe the most expected product to be used during this virus’ outbreak will be Gilead Sciences’ (GILD) product remdesivir. This product has reduced the severity of the coronavirus infection symptoms in animal testing and in a few infected humans who were treated with remdesivir on a compassionate basis. The …

The Market Soared Being optimistic about the greatness of American scientific capability does not mean underestimating the coronavirus’ ability to infect, devastate and threaten human lives. Today the market rebounded from fear that caused the stock market to plummet this past week. The rebounding was strong enough to demonstrate that Americans trust their country’s scientific capabilities as well as their scientists’ and physicians’ efforts towards …

Gilead Sciences to Acquire Forty Seven Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Forty Seven (FTSV) announced today that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which Gilead will acquire Forty Seven for $95.50 per share in cash. The transaction, which values Forty-Seven at approximately $4.9 billion, was unanimously approved by both the Gilead and Forty Seven Boards of Directors and is anticipated to close during the second quarter …

Moderna Therapeutics Among all the firms announcing their interest in working towards designing and producing a preventive vaccine for COVID-19 only Moderna (MRNA) has accomplished that job and delivered it to the health authorities to decide upon the next step. Moderna’s stock soared. The stock did not go up in expectation of the millions . . . This content is for paid subscribers. Please click here …

COVID-19 and the Stock Market The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is the topic that swallowed all other topics this week. The virus is spreading to many countries around the world. Some media interpreted the CDC’s warnings as being in direct conflict with the President while others showed understanding that the impact on the U.S. has so far been mild but the virus helped reveal the power …

Gilead and Moderna Stocks Will Outperform Today As stated in Prohost Letter #439 Gilead (GILD) investigational product remdesivir has offered hope towards treating infected people with COVID-19. Regarding the possibility of rapidly designing, creating and developing a preventive vaccine against COVID-19 Moderna Therapeutics (MRNA) seems to have accomplished this task. That’s why we were confident that Gilead’s and Moderna’s stocks will outperform today in a …

Prohost Letter #439 The Coronavirus Outbreak - COVID-19 The news announced that the coronavirus (now known as COVID-19) outbreak would affect not only people’s health and survival but the world’s economy, Wall Street’s performance, and especially the international giant industrial firms that are committed to China. British AstraZeneca (AZN

Synopsis The way many bloggers are interpreting the quarterly and yearly biotech companies’ financial results seems unfair and has proven to be. Amgen Amgen (AMGN): The stock gained over $10 yesterday and is trading now at $231. Many bloggers continue to attack the firm, mourning the loss of their protective patents on its over 30 years’ old products and ignore the record . . . …

As the Market Seems to Soar Our Eyes Are on the Following Biotech Stocks: Amgen (AMGN): A rebounding is expected following an unwarranted decline.   Gilead Sciences (GILD): A lot of good news from the firm, including the firm’s investigational product remdesivir that demonstrated positive results in beating the coronavirus infection. Read yesterday's article posted

Gilead Stock Is UP Gilead Sciences’ (GILD) provided its antiviral experimental drug remdesivir to physicians for a small number of patients infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as a possible emergency savior. Gilead might have also signed an agreement with the Chinese authorities to conduct a clinical trial with remdesivir to treat coronavirus infected patients. Remdesivir was intended to treat the Ebola virus but …

The EMA validated the MAA for the Gilead Investigational CAR T Product for MCL Kite, a Gilead (GILD) company, announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated the Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) of the investigational CAR T product KTE-X19 for adult patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma (MCL

A Comprehensive Essay Part 1 Yes, we have stories to tell about some of our picked stocks which proved to be highly successful after being condemned by erroneous evaluations from unfair analysts. Some of these firms faced problems that are not unusual for drug designing and developing firms. While trying to overcome their obstacles, the firms in question were faced with unfortunate debilitating attacks by …

Gilead’s CAR-T Product Yescarta Results Kite, a Gilead (GILD) subsidiary, announced new data from the ZUMA-1 trial of the CAR T Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) in adult patients with refractory large B-cell lymphoma. The data from the pivotal phase 2 study demonstrate that patients with refractory large B cell lymphoma were alive three years following a single infusion of Gilead’s CAR T immuno-oncology product Yescarta.  Analysis from …

Firstly, Forty-Seven and IVERIC bio  We remind that the two condemned stocks Forty-Seven (FTSV) and  IVERIC bio (

Prohost Letter #437 An All Time High Market More Prohost Picks Have Reached the 2019 Targets The stock market performance has reached an all-time high with more of our picks reaching or nearing the Prohost 2019 price targets. There are stories to tell about some devastated stocks which many believed were dead and buried but were surprisingly resurrected, and their stocks are going up. Another …

The Week in Review #46 The Quarterly Financial Results The quarterly financial results that analysts and investors relied on for years to evaluate biotech firms, including development stage firms, seem to change. Investors have finally realized that development-stage firms have no marketed drugs and no revenues, hence, no incomes and should be evaluated based on the clinical trial results of their pipeline products. They saw …

The Week in Review #44 Quarterly Financial Results What Was Seen and What Was Ignored History and self-experiences enabled investors to expect and swallow biased reactions following the announcements of the biotech sector’s firms’ quarterly results. Investors have long been expecting negative reactions towards small development-stage biotech firms following the announcement of their quarterly financial results. What they did not expect is for the same …