On vaccines are picked particular wolf that the use of father restrictions in the u. K. The virus the subject in many countries around the world people are telling them bones to vaccines and the chief medical officer in the england said 6 months was an estimate and got direct questions from family buns and from maggie checky who say do you think are a covered 1000 vaccine will be available so over to you christmas. I was speaking this week with one of Cambridge Universitys foremost experts on this gordon doogan who is a vaccine ologist is an Award Winning vax knowledge just and he has brought to the clinical coalface a number of vaccines over the course of his career and i asked him this very question last week and said with a fair wind behind it whats the most optimistic projection he said to me hes thinking realistically probably 2120 in 2021 june so it might be as long as 9 months to go yet the government themselves have said that we might see some vaccine available before christmas
Disseminated cancers at the pats would have been treated through curable if picked up 7 months ago because theyve not been able to see their doctors and theyve not been able to get in the hospitals for assessment and another colleague in Palliative Care says the same thing that theyre getting overwhelmed with palliation now of people who otherwise might have been treatable so its a good point we must remember that whilst we are all trying to save the lives of coated patients there really is a genuine big impact going on in the general population with treat diseases such as cancer thats a not getting treated that is a balance that we do have to address on the issue of the mutation viruses all mutate and in fact genomes new to it we know that there are vast numbers of minor variations in this virus already the one that was most dominant was known as a g d change its one of my no acid in the spike protein protein uses to attach to cells and the one thats now dominant is not the one that c
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In rural areas than anywhere else at the peak of the epidemic millions of people in the United States were prescribed 259000000. 00 prescriptions of opioids that means on average every adult is on one opiate you know once or twice a year if not more scares the living out of me opioids are a major category of medical spending according to the centers for Disease Control its about. 24000000000. 00 in direct cost for the medications and other 75000000000. 00 in Health Care Costs people are doing and oxycontin 8010. 00 pack a day thats a 1000. 00 worth of medication the kids who are spending hundreds of this month thousands. Of her own walking. And its cheap. Really cheap really inexpensive and readily available the shame of it. Diction keeps us from knowing the actual numbers but at least 2000000 americans and probably millions more are addicted to prescription opioids prescription drugs. Causing more deaths for example. Car accidents from 999 to 2070 over 500000 americans have died from
A different brain than their brain thats not in pain people have it in their hear theres a feel for something regardless of whatever amount of iranians theres something out there is going to you know there was this new growth its going to eliminate all your brain inside the company and the drug came out they received so many letters from people who had been suffering for years with no relief or finally felt like through oxycontin they were getting to be alive again in a way they hadnt for years and that they considered a miracle drug is the best thing that happened to me if i wasnt on this medication i just wouldnt be able to do the things that im doing now theres no question the best strongest and most opioids of serious medical sort of patients are just a. T. M. Machines some more you go back to the patient the more you push buttons the more profit you can do the pharmaceutical companies all so were not entirely transparent about the addictive the effect would be like and that peers