Coronavirus vaccines and medications: new developments

Oh come on, that’s not a regular flu shot either. You are reaching.

On October 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization for peramivir, allowing the use of the drug in intravenous form for hospitalized patients only in cases where the other available methods of treatment are ineffective or unavailable;

Emergency use for people already hospitalised where other treatments were unavailable. Kind of different to giving to everyone, don’t ya think?

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Vaccines are for prevention/mitigation and drugs are for treatment. Why would be there a need to give a drug to everyone (unless everyone was sick already)?

We are more used to deal with influenza, so there are already other methods approving those besides EUA.

Because influenza is a serious and sometimes life‐threatening illness, FDA has interpreted the accelerated approval regulation as allowing accelerated approval of an inactivated influenza vaccine when the supply of influenza vaccine is insufficient to immunize all persons recommended for annual influenza vaccination by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The accelerated approval regulatory mechanism was used to license the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccines Fluarix® (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals) in 2005, FluLaval® (ID Biomedical Corporation of Quebec) in 2006, Afluria® (bioCSL) in 2007, Agriflu® in 2009 (Novartis), and Fluad® in 2015 (Novartis). At the present time, confirmatory studies have verified the clinical benefit for Fluarix®, FluLaval®, Afluria®, and Agriflu®.
An overview of the regulation of influenza vaccines in the United States - PMC

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Or a covid vaccine to everyone?

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That is the point.

Why would you bring it up as an example when divinecomedy said he said flu shots don’t need EUAs?

see my previous post


discussion is more fitting for this thread

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It does provide a nice loophole, though. Just the other day on CBC, some random expert came on the evening news saying there was literally no record of anyone suffering side effects from the bivalent booster. So much for similarity! :upside_down_face:

I think we all know how that works by now.

Busted. The individual indicted here is reportedly a doctor at NTU Hospital. :pensive:

Guy

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Same sort of thing is happening everywhere. Throw a few of the little guys under the bus, while the movers and shakers walk away whistling with billions in their bank accounts.

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“Hey Bart, remember Medigen??”

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I remember @Brianjones suggesting something along these lines back in early 2021 when I asked about the company.

They are wild west feast or famine investment with massive insider trading too.

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Oh boyyy… leopards don’t change their spots.

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You called it, man!

:victory laps: lol

Note to self: don’t invest in biotech here as it’s clearly being gamed.

Guy

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Gonna suck big time to be investigated like that, no matter the $$$.

As an NTU Hospital doctor, why is she messing around like that? Obviously not short of salary, she was just doing something utterly foolish here.

Guy

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Greedy. Husband claims to have known nothing about it. The board are under investigation now aswell.

New charges? They were reportedly embroiled in controversy back in December 2022.

EDIT: And in July 2021!

https://www.ft.com/content/42d34771-a7b3-4c92-a22c-6557b3448d49

Guy

But they’ve already caught the one person responsible for insider trading. :whistle:

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Has mental illness been mentioned yet?