$2.7B Spent on COVID PillsCould $10 Nasal Spray Have Saved...

$2.7B Spent on COVID Pills

Could $10 Nasal Spray

Have Saved Billions

From 2022 to today the Govt has sent billions to overseas big pharma for antiviral drugs which has limited efficacy for the highly vaccinated Australian population and about 80% of our population are ineligible for these drugs anyway.
Maybe the Treasurer should look at the budget savings that nasal sprays for respiratory diseases could make

425,000 courses of Paxlovid at PBS cost of $1114
820,000 courses of Lagevrio
up to end of 2023 so today estimate $2.7 billion

and yet Nasodine and other nasal sprays could have been used not just by over 70s but everyone if TGA had approved suitable sprays

WHY DO THE REGULATORS NOT DO THE TRIALS and offer some independence