RE: RNS and COPD Reference9 Dec 2021 12:27
Dumbpunter......
Asthma trial was run by Astra, not Synairgen........and their choice of patients were not careful enough. It was found later that many of the patients had a bacterial infection ( which needs antibiotics) not a viral infection ( which would have responded to antivirals, such as SNG001). When the results were revamped by Synairgen later to include only the viral infections, they showed considerable efficacy.
COPD......this trial was stopped when the covid pandemic was announced. This is normal and very ethical, because many of those on the trial were highly vulnerable to Covid and were not to be encouraged to attend appointments in hospital or continue their stays in hospital and unfortunately many did still catch covid and die/became very sick. This would clearly have distorted the future results. Additionally, when on a trial, the patients are denied further , possibly life saving , drugs.