Re: Farmas USA
First, JELIS (53% RRR in the closest group to RI), CHERRY (plaque decrease) and multiple other studies that show incredible benefit of EPA. ZU posts new studies nearly daily that show multiple benefits. In order for RI to fail, all these must be false. That is impossible because they aren't related to each other. Trust me, I read more on EPA than I ever wanted to know about any drug. So based on this, I am convinced that V will decrease the rate of CVD. Let's get more specific.
I was fortunate that a very informative investor shared with me his calculations of multiple scenarios that could occur. Although his calculations are incredibly thorough, I realize it's not guaranteed to be 100% accurate because we don't have all the information, but this is the best there is, with the information that was made available publicly.
Using enrollment numbers, he created a matrix (it's not simple math): x axis - placebo rates, y axis RRR, inside the matrix are dates of when 967 and 1612 will occur. Again, this is based on enrollment numbers, placebo rate and RRR. So for example, this matrix shows that if placebo rate is 5.2 and RRR is 30%, #967 will occur on February xx.Important to remember, because we don't know the placebo rate, we can't use this to predict anything but we can use it to give is different possibilities, such as the example I just gave or if placebo rate is 5.6 and RRR is 40%, 967 will occur in February xx or if placebo rate is 4.9 and RRR is 8%, 967 occurred in November.
So there are many many possibilities but they can be easily narrowed down. The company said that interim
must occur in 2016 and final in 2017. With this rule in mind, intrerim must occur in January-February, with a slight chance for early March as well. Anything after that will not give enough for the remaining 645 events to occur.