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by yawnxyz 1605 days ago
It could potentially work under Pharmacopeia / Value-based healthcare model, and as a service it's less like a drug and more like a "process"; more like surgery, less like a pill. "Surgery wouldn't work under the pharmaceutical industry either"

We're working with the Australian government to make this happen: https://www.westmeadinstitute.org.au/news-and-events/2021/we...

The difference we have now vs. 80 years ago Soviet Russia, is that we have tools that speed up lab work and the pipeline of "finding/getting/checking/manufacturing/using" the right phage for the right infection.

It's still going to be mighty difficult, though. And not sure if the economics really would make sense, but still — do the economics of surgery make sense? (I actually don't know the answer to that)