Too late to have oral antiviral drugs

   Taiwan CovID-19 policy ... Too late to have oral antiviral, led to lots of deaths

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Taiwan has bad record in 2021─ CovID Patient's applications for Remdesivir (expensive drug) were often rejected or delayed which caused deaths.
Now, similar mistakes are repeated ?

nToo late to have oral antiviral pills
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United Daily, 2022-6-12: 41% CovID-Omicron confirmed cases died within 3 days after becoming sick; CDC has not exposed upon experts' questions the avg. days between patient's becoming to sicken and giving them medicines, that's the key to find out the problem, such as slow diagnosis and improper taking care the patients udn.com/news/story/120940/6381686?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2 Nearly 80% of local CovID severe cases died this year. Experts believe that this reflects the problem of "failure to administer drugs in time " tw.news.yahoo.com/社會-重症近8成死亡-專家疑未能及時投藥-235256426.html
Since April, about 20% of the deceased died within 5 days of being diagnosed, and about 40% of the deceased died quickly after diagnosis or were not diagnosed at all. Now we must try our best to achieve early diagnosis and early drug administration udn.com/news/story/120940/6331358?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub120940_pulldownmenu_v2 udn.com/news/story/120940/6346601 2022-5-28

♣ United Daily, 2022-5-11: Taiwan's CDC "creates" a world-unique, rigid & severe admin. procedure for Cov. patients to apply for Paxlovid, therefore, most of them fail to have antiviral pills. How can little people fight the state machine ? udn.com/news/story/11091/6304035?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
♣ UDN, 2022-5-10: Taiwan gov. regards Paxlovid as treasures. Only 2000 out of 280 thousands CovID patients had Paxlovid.

♣ UDN, 2022-5-9: It takes 4-5 days to know the results of PCR test and rapid test, which might results in serious delay to have Paxlovid or even death. (udn.com/news/story/122190/6298176?from=udn_ch2cate6638sub122190_pulldownmenu_v2)

♣Next TV news, (壹新聞) 2022-5-19 12:13: Giving patients drugs too late, some wait 5~7 days to get Paxlovid; 寰宇 News: some wait 5 days to telemedicine

♣ China Times, CTV news, 2022-4-27: oral antiviral pills imported for CovID are insufficient.

♣ UDN, 2022-5-10: MD in Taipei city hospital says many interferences or obstructions are ahead of prescription.

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♣ CTV, 2022-5-23: many need connections (e.g., top rankings in hospital) to have oral antiviral pills.

nNo oral antiviral pills for elderly aged 65-
♣UDN, 2022-5-3: Till May 1, more than 6000 elderly (aged 60+) were infected Omicron, only 800+courses Paxlovid were given. (udn.com/news/story/7338/6283302?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2) UDN, 2022-5-1: A woman aged 60+ was rejected to be hospitalized and not old enough to have Paxlovid, she died next day (it's almost all cases - patients cannot have Paxlovid unless staying in hospital-wards , 75 is min age to be hospitalized health.udn.com/health/story/120951/6281043; cdc.gov.tw/Uploads/a48e6ecf-54c1-4025-8b5c-46afebdfde9e.pdf )
♣ TTV news, 2022-5-11: 2 problems to have Paxlovid (1) too late to get official test-positive inform or text-message (2) a long queue (7 days or more) to have telemedicine.

♣ TTV news, 2022-5-11: a lady aged 73 was rejected to have Paxlovid because it has not worsened to pneumonitis. But CDC declared patients aged 65 OR with high risk can have antiviral pills. (TVBS news, 2022-5-8)

♣ age 60 is defined as high risk in Singapore, Korea, Japan, ... but not in Taiwan
n(1) Korea Herald, 2022-3-9: In South Korea, the use of Paxlovid -- an oral antiviral to treat COVID-19 -- is restricted to patients aged 60 and older, ... Asia.Nikkei 2022-2-11: seniors aged 60 and over became infected. This age group is at high risk of developing serious complications from the disease
n(2) CDC (USA), 2022-4-15: Among these deaths in Hong Kong, 96% occurred in persons aged ≥60 years (cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7115e1.htm)

n(3) Statista, 2022-4-1: 93.79% deaths in S. Korea occurred in persons aged ≥60 years (statista.com/statistics/1105080/south-korea-coronavirus-deaths-by-age/)
n(4) Bloomberg, 2021-7-25, Global Times, 2021-6-18: most died are aged 60 ~ 90 。globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1226443.shtml
n(5) UDN, 2022-5-21: In Australia, the death rate caused by Omicron is nearly double that of Delta for people over 60 udn.com/news/story/7338/6329224?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
♣ Taiwan is still very frugal? The website suggested patients aged 60-65 can pay for Paxlovid, but no response.

n Politicians abusing power to butt in line ??

USA , Canada, Euro., etc

Taiwan

nIn Canada, for example, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he has no problem waiting for his shot. there’s a lot of vulnerable people who need to get these vaccines much quicker than I will, and we’re going to make sure that they get it first
n Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, 57, argued that members of Congress, particularly those who are under 65 years of age and in good health, shouldn’t get the shots ahead of old people and health-care workers.
nSen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted. “because I’m healthy & relatively young, I’m going to wait until seniors & frontline workers have the opportunity to take it first."
　

nIn Europe, a top army general in Spain and local mayors in Austria were accused of having jumped the queue for shots.

nSpanish princesses Elena and Christina – have faced anger after it emerged they obtained jabs i... The princesses, who are aged in their 50s, are not yet entitled to vaccines under Spain’s rollout

nPeru’s health and foreign ministers quit and its former president was placed under criminal investigation after reports of hundreds of Peruvian officials and others receiving vaccine doses outside of clinical trials and before the national immunization program began.

nThe World Bank’s threat to suspend funding in response to queue-jumping in Lebanon

nArgentina’s health minister also stepped down after reports that at least 10 people had been able to use connections to jump the queue for vaccines, including a journalist who said he had received an early shot after approaching the minister for help.

nPoliticians (not only the ruling party, but also some opposition party mayors, etc) used vaccine privilege to serve voting purpose, left behind those vulnerable and elderly. youtube.com/watch?v=C3KcfEW9Z4M

nSome widely-known Law makers cut in queue to take PCR test, left behind lots of people (some are high risky) waiting and even died in long lines, sunny or rainy udn.com/news/story/7338/6313780?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 udn.com/news/story/11091/6325951?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

nThe authorities have also failed to standardize the allocation and use of leftover doses, raising questions about lack of a transparent process that fostered privilege and corruption globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1227797.shtml

nTo see more, further bad examples in Taiwan, please read https://intlhumanrights.com/CovID19inTaiwan.htm

Taiwan abused power in CovID-19 CovID-Omicron