RE: Prof Holgate's letter published in FT today - shown below1 Feb 2021 09:30
Hope Geovanni does not this being put to the top of page, very well balanced and controlled letter from SSH (obvious he is at the end of his frustration with so many needlessly dying and so many suffering needlessly with long covid : It is unrealistic to believe that a virus mutating as rapidly as Covid-19 can be defeated through prevention alone.
Even once “herd immunity” is achieved, new variants are likely to circulate within the population. In addition to effective contact tracing, quarantine and isolation, the key to unlocking the population is to find effective treatments that prevent people from becoming seriously ill.
The US government’s Operation Warp Speed is accelerating development of promising treatments including inhaled interferon beta — a naturally occurring protein investigated at my own university, the University of Southampton.
This treatment can prevent the progression of any virus-induced lung damage once someone is infected in contrast to preventing infection (which vaccines do).
It is time for other governments, including the UK’s, to emulate this approach by placing as much national priority behind development of treatments as has successfully been deployed behind distribution of vaccines.
Sir Stephen T Holgate
Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology
Faculty of Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Sciences
University of Southampton
Come on SNG001, SSH know the results of the home trial now and in using phraseology such as 'This treatment can prevent the progression of any virus-induced lung damage once someone is infected in contrast to preventing infection (which vaccines do).' means he knows for definite. What does the UK GOV actually really want ? The USA and Fauci et al must have thought something was amiss until doing their own detailed DD and concluding the drug is gold-dust !!!!
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