Re:More people died of superbacteria in 2019 than HIV or mal...
by yawnxyz on Thursday January 20, 2022 @09:01AM
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It could potentially work under Pharmacopeia / Value-based healthcare model, and as a service it's less like a drug and more like a "process"; more like surgery, less like a pill. "Surgery wouldn't work under the pharmaceutical industry either"
The difference we have now vs. 80 years ago Soviet Russia, is that we have tools that speed up lab work and the pipeline of "finding/getting/checking/manufacturing/using" the right phage for the right infection.
It's still going to be mighty difficult, though. And not sure if the economics really would make sense, but still — do the economics of surgery make sense? (I actually don't know the answer to that)
We're working with the Australian government to make this happen: https://www.westmeadinstitute.org.au/news-and-events/2021/we...
The difference we have now vs. 80 years ago Soviet Russia, is that we have tools that speed up lab work and the pipeline of "finding/getting/checking/manufacturing/using" the right phage for the right infection.
It's still going to be mighty difficult, though. And not sure if the economics really would make sense, but still — do the economics of surgery make sense? (I actually don't know the answer to that)