The FDA has approved a groundbreaking cure for sickle cell anemia called Casgevy which uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR. NBC News’ Rehema Ellis has more details on the new hope for those suffering with the debilitating blood disorder.
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#SickleCellAnemia #GeneEditing #FDA
Gene-editing. Wow! Choose your own genes.
Rehema Ellis states this is a “long overlooked genetic disorder.” That is a shameless lie. I’m 69 and I’ve heard about this disorder since high school. The medical establishment has been working on it for decades. Why do you folks lie about these things? It has to be intentional.
Bring it back
Wow, fantastic because their life span is short with the average age in early 50s. I bet medicine is very expensive and insurance may not cover it .
Its about time! This excruciating disease has been a scourge in the black conmmunity for far too long! Well done!
Smh, they always try transhumanism on black people, they have a non gene editing cure but won’t release it, it’s all about the Benjamin’s and DNA altering for these who love the beast
Maybe the price will go down. 2.2 mil is unreachable for almost everyone.
Wow 😮!! That’s Amazing!! Absolutely speechless… this is groundbreaking news
More gene therapy = more sudden death
Ground breaking ❤
Very expensive
BOOOOOO
With the cost of this, most people will not be able to afford it.
Exactly so wats the point n den u pay all dat money n boom u die by some accident or some other thing…..money can’t buy life
How do they come up with these prices?
Research and development costs are extremely expensive and considering fewer than .05% of the world’s population has Sickle Cell, there are only so many people that this medication will even be a consideration for.
Capital investors need to get a ROI too or else they will stop investing in these sort of groundbreaking discoveries.
The american health care industrial complex milks us for all we’re worth. Medical bills #1 reason for bankruptcy in u.s.a. GQP wanted to block negotiating on medicare prescription prices.
@@nickgardner1408aren’t hospital ward bills exorbitant though? There’s constant horror stories of 5 grand bills for hospital visit for broken fingernail for example. Why can’t they have cheap wards with minimal cheap equipment, and ease off on legal sanitary requirements that cause prices to inflate so much?
When this treatment is developed in more common sense countries, it’ll be 10x cheaper to fly to Mexico for it, expect to see the rest of the world leapfrogging the West on health matters, while the West gets bogged down in extremely over-the-top health measures that end up doing the opposite of benefiting public health.
@@motherofallemails CRSPR has massive costs that first need to be distributed amongst all recipients. CRSPR had to hire the best and smartest scientists to work around the clock for 13 years racking up billions of dollars of dept. Those scientists don’t come cheap so someone had to pay those scientists and for their equipment to discover a cure that no one was even 100% sure was possible of working, meaning they could lose their entire investment.
Now that they were successful, those who paid for it to be discovered need to be paid back and then some for taking that risk. If they are not, no one will ever invest in companies like this because there is zero incentive to and if that happens, those diseases will just go uncured and people will just continue to suffer and die.
Over time the cost will come down as technology gets better but not everyone has decades to wait.
It’s a sad truth but a truth none the less.
Charging 2.2 million dollars to cure a disease that will save lives is a travesty. These pharma companies don’t care about saving lives, they care about filling their pockets from the sick. In my opinion, after the banks, they are public enemy number 2.
Can’t ya utilize CRISPR to edit, or modify, DNA of bacteria or viruses???? Hmmm…….
$2.2 million dollars for a shot???? pssshhh😮💨
Umm.. it’s literally gene editing what u expect it to cost $1 ??
Thats disgusting to charge these egregious prices for live saving medicine
There is no way any insurance company will cover 2.2 million dollars! NO WAY ! those pharmaceutical companies should be ashamed !
My cousin is 45 years old with sickle cell and he has being going through for years. Help!
I am happy for this break through. My cousin would love to have this treatment to be free of this pain for 41 years. Lower the price. We are not rich.
The cost of this therapy is $2.2 million per person. For a cure that is predominantly plaguing the black/hispanic community (1/365 black AA) to promote a cure for a disease that most AA with the disease won’t ever be able afford is not helpful in my opinion. There’s no way an insurance company would dare cover this treatment. It just an advertisement of showcasing medical advances that is clouded in false hope.
exactly! hopefully it becomes more affordable with due time
I don’t believe a true cure would hurt. 6 months of argeous pain. That’s 😮😮.
Yes and it costs 2.2 million dollars per patient.!! It also involves chemotherapy. And it takes 6-7 months.
Who will pay the 2.2 million dollars???
My childhood friend died in 2020 at the age of 32 😢
What a game changer
Only for maybe 1% of ppl. Majority of people don’t see $70k a year where will they get $2.2M
There’s much easier and cheaper ways to rejuvenate any type of cell within the body.Once you have seen how STC30 plantbasted stemcells works it will blow your mind.
2.2 million !
Sickle cell protectives them/us from malaria😊
Anyone know if this would work for other diseases like immune diseases?
I will never forget the good deeds of *Dr KOSUN* and his fast working natural remedy . He is a live saver❤❤
Thank you *Dr KOSUN* on YouTube for being the reason am smiling today, Keep saving lives sir❤❤
Oh God please let this work😢 it’s so painful and it hasn’t been mentioned no marathons, no momey raised on tv nothing. I wasnt supposed to live long im 48 my neice died at 5 with this.
2.2 welp guess I’m going to die with this disease