Pro Pharma Talks

Vaccines vs. Treatment -Treatment vs. Prevention    -Treatment is not curative – examples are HTN, anti-diabetic medications, anti-asthma medications    -New options are antibody serum, gene PCR techniques    -Prevention – examples are vaccines, gene transformations -Vaccine manufacturing process    -Production technologies – using flu vaccine as an example       -Egg-based       -Cell based       -Recombinant     -https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm -Coronavirus vaccine    -Exploratory stage (2-4yrs)    -Pre-clinical stage – animal tests 1-2 yrs.    -Clinical development – ca. 30% make it    -Regulatory review and approval – sign off by FDA and CDC    -Manufacturing – FDA inspects factory and drug labels    -Quality control – quality