Fury in Whitehall - is SNG001 the answer?18 Dec 2021 00:35
Article in the DM tonight about fury over gov inaction / Pfizer drug.... but don't miss the point here for SNG001 - see Last 3 paras specifically!
'If the vaccines taskforce could do it so quickly, please put the same effort into antivirals. We shouldn’t be waiting for regulatory approval to get large orders in. Getting this right could be game over for Covid.'
Another said the antiviral taskforce as a 'clunky mess' with 'too many cooks', including Whitehall officials, slowing things down.
Professor of pharmaceutical medicine Penny Ward, at King's College London was also critical of the low number of doses ordered, saying the UK had moved too late.
She said she 'distinctly remembered wanting to throttle people' after getting knocked back when she suggested an antivirals group be set up March 2020.
'I've been talking about antivirals since the Covid outbreak began. And the Antiviral Taskforce was founded in April this year - I mean, for the love of God,' she said.
But one scientist has said that less antivirals might in fact be more, warning that anti-viral treatments like Paxlovid could be become ineffective if distributed so widely across the population that Covid evolves a resistance to it.
Professor of medicine Sir John Bell, from Oxford University, said the Government’s small orders of the antiviral was actually wise as and a combination treatment with other similar meant there was less chance the virus would evolve resistance .
'If we can see a couple of other good antivirals coming over the hill, and we might well in the next month or two, then combining those drugs is clearly the way forward,' he said.
'If we can see a couple of other good antivirals coming over the hill, and we might well in the next month or two, then combining those drugs is clearly the way forward,' he said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10320641/Fury-No10s-decision-buy-250-000-doses-Pfizers-wonder-Covid-pill.html
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