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In this case, during Phase I (safety) trials, Phase II and Phase III were already being planned. Normally, there would be a pause between each step to decide if it's worth going ahead. Instead, once the safety tests were completed, volunteers were already lined up for stages II and III. The gap between II and III is usually the big one as there will be huge investments in to manufacturing capacity. By huge, we're talking 10-100+ million quid here with months of work. The drug companies ran all of these steps overlapping each other at a significant financial risk to themselves if the vaccines failed at any step during the trials. Even now, the manufacturers are producing vaccines and storing them until they are approved. If approval doesn't go through or (more likely) changes are needed to be made, all that drug will need to be destroyed at a huge cost. The total cost to bring a drug to market is estimated at $1-2 billion With vaccines, the return on investment is rubbish as each patient will only have one or two doses of a vaccine through their lifetime with a few exceptions (flu because it changes every year and tetanus because it's a rubbish vaccine) Not only do patients not have many doses but vaccines prevent diseases that big pharma would like to treat with more drugs! The manufacturers try and bump up the price of vaccines to recoup costs but most health authorities fight back hard. Even a new vaccine like HPV is still pretty cheap and around £50 per dose. Because of this, pharma companies are very risk averse financially as the margins are terrible. I am blown away by how quickly we have got to where we are to be honest. The scientists involved have done a great job here |
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Ignore the headline. The article Is really about Nadhim Zahawi, who is responsible for the rollout of a vaccine and his thoughts on how people/venues could manage their need to prove/know who has been vaccinated.
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Person goes to hospital for an operation. Person is conventionally anesthetised. Seems only you and your mate Hugh don't find it obvious. |
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Well only my dad eats it, so I'm going to see if one of the supermarkets sell a small frozen turkey joint. |
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This is why I was asking. https://www.sps.nhs.uk/wp-content/up...date-2017.docx *one of the people I meet dog walking in the morning is an anaesthesiologist, and she had mentioned this... |
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I think i'll let others try it out first to see if anything negative happens before making a decision myself.
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I think the government may go down the route of asking TV personalities, maybe even football stars, if they'd be willing to accept the vaccination of course, this may well encourage those who have doubts about the vaccine to go ahead and get it.
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Oh yes, that's my thoughts too.:) |
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