Live attenuated influenza vaccine

And we'll talk a little bit more about that.

There's also the live attenuated vaccine, FluMist.

This is an intranasal spray that was really developed as a way for people that are needle phobic, that they can still get a flu protection.

especially kids, as well as with the idea that by inducing respiratory immunity, by targeting initially the respiratory tract as opposed to a shot in the arm, that you might have a better outcome in terms of protection.

Well, a lot of people still say that it's coming and that there's going to be worsening in January, the end of this month, or up to March.

That was a release that was just put out last week by Dr. Fukino from the state of Hawaii, the health director there who's been withholding Barack Obama's birth certificate, and she's heavily stockpiled Tamiflu and FluMist and the H1N1 vaccinations.

She just came out in the Honolulu Star the other day and said that, well, we're very concerned.

We're going to open the vaccinations up to everybody now because it may be coming back and where they expected that, just like they saw in the 1918 Spanish flu.

It says, "Historically, vaccination of children has occurred where they routinely get medical care.

But increasingly, access to vaccines in other locations such as pharmacies, school clinics, or even at home, FluMist," which we've talked about, which you should not take in my opinion, "helps families who have barriers to access." Oh, barriers to access.

[laughs] We are in the country that is so shockingly forced into vaccination.

I mean, there's advertisements.

And usually, last season wasn't an exception, the vaccine effectiveness of the inactivated vaccines that are injected is somewhere between 30% and 60%.

And Last year, there was an early study from the UK that also looked at this live attenuated vaccine, Fluence or FluMist, and that worked super well in kids last year.

Actually had a vaccine effectiveness of about 75%, which is super high.

So I think that nasal spray vaccine for kids is actually pretty nice.

So I was a little thrown by that, and I said something like, "Wow, you seem to feel really strongly about that." And her follow-up was, "Yeah.

Well, I definitely don't want that stuff up my nose." So as I, as I followed up on this, what I learned was that in the previous year, she had gotten a different flu vaccine product called FluMist, which is an intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine, and she really hated the sensation of having it sprayed into her nose, so much so that she thought she would prefer to have an injection, which she'd had before, the year before that.

And to me, I thought, you know, when I was thinking about this just now, it bears a similarity to the discussion we're having about RSV right now, because that's a situation where we have two pretty different products that we can offer to people.

And it's, I think, a great little reminder that we make assumptions all the time about what patients are gonna prefer.

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You know, it, it's brought 17,000 new products to market, including Nobel Prize-winning, uh, breakthroughs in medicine.

Um, supermarket barcodes, FluMist, nicotine patches, all that came from Bayh-Dole.

It's working every day.

I mean, universities start three new businesses and commercialize two new, uh, products every day of the year.