The TTE Week in Numbers (to May 24th)

Zero plus Zero equals lockdown and vaccination for those who do not need it.

6.4%

SARS-CoV-2 decreased to 6.4% compared with 8.8% last week. 

Surely, you all have been wearing your masks and complying with the latest regulations - oops, there are none. As we keep banging on - what goes up must come down when it comes to respiratory agents. 

$411 billion

US Senator Bernie Sanders claimed the high prices for the obesity drug Wegovy could end up bankrupting US healthcare systems. “The widespread use of Wegovy (semaglutide) and other new weight-loss drugs like Eli Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatide) could drive the US prescription medicines bill to around $1 trillion a year.”

If just half the eligible people with obesity in the US received the drugs, it could cost $411 billion a year – greater than the entire US drugs bill in 2022 – with Medicare/Medicaid alone accounting for $166 billion of that total.”

To say that Americans are being ripped off is an understatement. “if Novo Nordisk charged the same for Wegovy in the US as it does in Denmark, the US healthcare system could…