TAMIFLU - NATIONALISATION - TAXPAYERS

Anonymous said...

History repeats ....Taxpayers looted again..

The World Health Organization, which classes Tamiflu as an essential medicine, said: "We welcome a new and rigorous analysis of available data, and look forward to consideration of its findings after it appears."

Tamiflu: Millions wasted on flu drug, claims major report

10 April 2014

Hundreds of millions of pounds may have been wasted on a drug for flu that works no better than paracetamol, a landmark analysis has said.

The UK has spent £473m on Tamiflu, which is stockpiled by governments globally to prepare for flu pandemics.

The Cochrane Collaboration claimed the drug did not prevent the spread of flu or reduce dangerous complications, and only slightly helped symptoms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26954482



Another justification for stockpiling was to slow the spread of the disease to give time for a vaccine to be developed. The report's authors said "the case for this is simply unproven" and "there is no credible way these drugs could prevent a pandemic".

It also claimed that the drug had a number of side-effects, including nausea, headaches, psychiatric events, kidney problems and hyperglycaemia.

Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford and one of the report's authors, told the BBC: "I think the whole £500m has not benefited human health in any way and we may have harmed people.

"The system that exists for producing evidence on drugs is so flawed and open to misuse that the public has been misled."

Dr Tom Jefferson, a clinical epidemiologist and former GP, said: "I wouldn't give it for symptom relief, I'd give paracetamol."

The Cochrane Collaboration researchers have not placed the blame on any individual or organisation, instead saying there had been failings at every step from the manufacturers to the regulators and government.
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Tamiflu was widely used during the swine flu outbreak

Another justification for stockpiling was to slow the spread of the disease to give time for a vaccine to be developed. The report's authors said "the case for this is simply unproven" and "there is no credible way these drugs could prevent a pandemic".

It also claimed that the drug had a number of side-effects, including nausea, headaches, psychiatric events, kidney problems and hyperglycaemia.

Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford and one of the report's authors, told the BBC: "I think the whole £500m has not benefited human health in any way and we may have harmed people.

"The system that exists for producing evidence on drugs is so flawed and open to misuse that the public has been misled."

Research and production of medicines and vaccines is far too important to be left in the hands of these ruthless corporations. Their aim is to generate ever-increasing profits – not safe and effective treatments.

A socialist government would nationalise the pharmaceutical industry, with compensation only to small shareholders in genuine need. The industry could then be integrated with the NHS.

https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/18478/16-04-2014/tamiflu-scandal-exposes-bloodsucking-big-pharma/

 Unknown said...

There needs to be a referendum on the use of such vaccines. 250 million vaccines a year is a ridiculous over-supply for the UK, pretty much a ridiculous over-supply for the EU.

 Moderna's Covid vaccine was a complete waste of money, a clinical failure and it is a criminal waste of taxpayers' money for any UK government to waste further money on untested nonsense from the William Gates-backed rip-off company.