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Or we get a RNS saying the Government have ring-fenced all we can
manufacture for front line NHS workers...... Donald will have to wait his turn...
I certainly hope you are right Chrishar!
We have the PPE, we have the beds, we have the Nightingales, we have new medicines - pioneered in this country - that can help save lives.
Sweet Dreams Syners......!
Joey I agree with you about this possibly just being Bombastic Boris being Boris... however this didn't feel like the place for it, this felt like more of a carefully worded speech written for him by his speech writers. I don't think the pluralisation was deception at play personally.
H@nsard 20 July 2020 Volume 678
MH: “We now have preliminary results from a clinical trial of another treatment known as SNG001, which was created by the Southampton -based biotech firm Synairgen. Initial findings based on a small cohort suggest that SNG001 may substantially reduce the chance of someone developing severe disease, and it could cut hospital admission time by a third. The data still need to be peer reviewed, and we are supporting a further large-scale trial, but the preliminary results are a positive sign.....”
Pioneered definition
develop or be the first to use or apply (a new method, area of knowledge, or activity).
Dexamethasone was part of the UK recovery trial led by British doctors/scientists. You could say the British first pioneered/applied a new method of using Dexamethasone against Covid.
Boris as we know is a compulsive liar and will stretch words so there is a high chance he just talking about Dexamethasone. Very similar to Trumps announcement of a radical new therapy which turned out to be.... plasma. All done for political gain.
However he may actually be referring to a genuinely new UK therapy which if true would be odds on Synairgen considering Matt Handjob and other officials have mentioned.
Sounds like some of you won't sleep tonight ! It's like it's Christmas Eve all of a sudden and the anticipation of what tomorrow will bring :-) hopefully a sack full of news :-)
@Eyepaul I appreciate this is a lot to ask, but would you be prepared to say which MP and quote their exact words re government supporting SNG trial?
I just hope some juornalist is bright enough to ask the question 'What drug is it that's coming?'
So is the British solution SNG001 in a Vectura Inhaler..........
If they are including Synairgen in the doctors tool kit to treat patients than it is a fantastic news as the second wave will not be as severe as the first by a long shot. I admire all those who contributed in any way to make it possible. It could well prove be a case of "so much was owed by so many to so few".
Its true Prion
https://twitter.com/blad3sharp/status/1285255361080045569
Synairgen mentioned in Parliament 20 July by Mat Han***k
I was not aware of that
Budesonide is as old as the hills (1973) in pharma speak so definitely not new and not ‘pioneered in the UK.’
Lovely tip of the hat indeed!
*get (the impression)
budesonide, an inhaled corticosteroid is a new one to me mentioned by my local mp but way behind sng001 Also mentioned government is supporting a further sng trial
No they ain't, but it's Boris. Don't get me wrong, I really hope he's talking about us, he could be.
I also think the impression that the 'cavalry' they've been talking about may be us or at least include us.
Yes hold but corticosteroids are hardly ‘pioneering’ medicines are they!
It may be a reference to us, but to play devil's advocate there are a couple of other steroids that are now alternatives to Dexamethasone, such as Hydrocortisone:
https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/news/steroid-found-to-improve-survival-of-critically-ill-covid-19-patients
It's good to have alternatives, e.g. if a patient is sensitive to one or reacts badly they can try another.
Any steroids are only being used when patients are already very ill. They may be cheap, but keeping people in hospital costs a fortune, especially in ICU. And we're talking a 20-30% reduction in mortality at best - not exactly the optimum solution.
Which is us, IMHO :)
Dexamethasone was actually created in the fifties by an American who went on to receive the Nobel prize. Dr Hensch I believe it was. It is also a corticosteroid so SNG001 should be able to work alongside that drug in any event given the recent finding on patients who are taking such medicines already.
He has at last alluded to us ? He must have felt my frustration in my previous post!
‘New medicines pioneered in this country, that can help save lives’. Well that rules out Remdesivir and Dexamethasone. Both American. Think SNG001 just got a tip of the hat.’ Not sure who the other/s are though they certainly don’t have data like SNG if their is anyone else.
Dexamethasone has been around since the 1960's so definitely not new.....