Monday, August 24, 2009

Speed up US flu drugs, vaccines-White House panel

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24154495.htm

Tamiflu hastens the recovery time by half a day, and yet they still push it. The question is why.
The UK was handing it out like candy with only a phone call for confirmation of the symptoms reality, causing a few deaths, but then really what can you expect when kids are handling the phones.

U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu drugs and vaccines, making at least some shots available by mid-September, White House science advisers said on Monday.

Calling the H1N1 pandemic "a serious threat to our nation", they also urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly decide on new, intravenous formulations of flu drugs, including current drugs such as Roche AG's Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline's Relenza but also BioCryst Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug peramivir.