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On the AZ thing just some insight I might be able to provide. In my field, inflammatory bowel diseases, new drugs come along not infrequently, and when they do, they often emerge with a fanfare that is not supported by real world experience. In that maelstrom you get claim and
Counter-claim, and the usual MO is that it doesn’t make that much of a difference and things generally get spitballed around in the scientific literature and at conferences for around 18-24 months before anything like a critical mass of people change practice. And everyone sort
Of accepts that this is the craic and sees how it plays out. Usually turns that whatever Fantastimab they’re selling is a useful tool in a particular group, and neither the panacea they initially promised, or the dangerous snake oil others said. What we’re seeing now is that
Dance played out in a situation where the stakes are enormous for billions of people and the whole world is watching, and it really doesn’t lend itself to it. Keep calm and carry on. If there’s an issue now is the time to address it.
