Archives for: October 2009, 25
Catch it! Bin it! Profit from it!
Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/25/swine-flu-vaccines-profit
This is a quote from The Observer published 25 October 2009:
'The manufacturers have made no secret of the efficacy – or otherwise – of their drugs. And yet about 270m treatments of Tamiflu have been purchased by governments worldwide since 2006, about half of this in the past six months, while GlaxoSmithKline increased its capacity to produce 190m courses of Relenza by the end of the year, three times its usual annual output.'
'These figures prompt a slew of questions. Have our healthcare officials been so keen to provide something to reassure us in a pandemic that they have supplied us with treatments they know to be second-rate? Have we wasted vast amounts of money on products that are little better than a placebo?'

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