I saw this on the NY Times website.
Only three controlled studies of the drug’s efficacy have been published, and all three lasted for only five weeks...
And thought to myself. That's ridiculous. You need to test a drug longer than that. Then I read this.
BMS has set its wholesale cost at $1,850 a month, or around $22,500 a year, in line with other branded antipsychotics, said Adam Lenkowsky, chief commercialization officer for BMS.
People talk about the damage the military-industrial complex does to this country. Is the medial-pharmaceutical complex even worse? It just seems that the FDA is a drug pusher.
If I was in charge of the FDA, I'd temporarily approve a drug like this after 5 weeks as sick people and their relatiaves are often desperate but I would keep the trials going for years. And I would have kept the Covid-19 trials going for years as well.


