I believe there is a new, very expensive drug that “cures” Hep C. Probably the drug manufacturer is pushing that all baby boomers (those on Medicare, at least), get tested for it, so they can increase their drug sales. JMHO
Costs between $65 to $95 grand depending on drug.
A. An uptick in adults using intraveneous drugs, both legal and otherwise.
B. An acknowledgement that many of the illegals dumped upon our social systems are infected with a particular strain of Hep the older adults were never vaccinated for.
C. An untapped market of consumers to sell to via their trusted primary physicians.
I find it offensive. I never injected myself with drugs and never cheated on Mr. Mercat nor he on me. So I don’t have hep C. And in my experience with clients, it’s not a hidden disease but causes major chaos with the system.
Baby boomers were subject to frequent injections during large public health campaigns such as the polio and small pox mass inoculations. Also it was very customary in the late 1940’s thru the mid 1960’s that whenever they became ill and their parents brought them to a GP or a pediatrician they inevitable received a “shot”. There was no disposable equipment in those days. After it was “sterilized” it was reused. Suffice it to say some doctors sterilized better than others. A lot of “dirty needles” were used. Good idea for boomers to be tested for Hepatitis C. Untreated it is a very bad actor. It can be treated and even cured.
A friend was recently diagnosed with it. The VA doctors told him he got it from the air guns the military was using during the Vietnam era to administer vaccinations.
Big Pharma- MERCK’s new drug- Zepatier
It can be cured (not all strains) and now they have a drug that doesn’t nearly kill you in the process.
I think it might be connected to the opioid/heroin epidemic. Needle sharing is a good way to get this I guess? Same thing with the commercials for ‘opioid induced constipation’ commercials. I mean if they are showing commercials for this during daytime TV we might be pretty far down the cultural slope.
Freegards
Not a conspiracy, but a serious health problem, and the treatments are getting better all the time.
This the variety of Hep that Homos always have from their sex “games”?
It can be treated with an antiviral medication
About 10 years ago, I was told that there was a 3 part vaccine for Hep C and that I could go to Denver Health Vaccine Clinnic for the regimen for free. I got all three shots and later discovered that there is no vaccine for Hep C. I still don’t know what the bleep was happening with Denver Health and their vaccine. Whatever those injections are...I am no longer allowed to donate blood because the tests are weirded out by the unstable readings. Just saying, if there is not a vaccine, then well let’s hope there is a cure. Probably expensive and for those who have got Medicare.
This is not the first time the CDC has issued statements that baby boomers need to be tested for hepatitis and even HIV. The VA in my area asked vet patients if they would volunteer to be tested two or three years ago. Strictly voluntary.
But it does seem to be more publicized this time. I only recall newspaper and general news reports previously. I took the earlier announcements as an effort to get a good sample of boomers tested to determine how common such infections might be.
basically the boomers are the hippy skanky 60’s libtards that are creating the cupcake class. since they stuck every thing and any thing in all ports and veins, a large percentage have hep c. in the last 5 years a lot of cures, not management drugs have come to market. The cost to cure is $80,000 to $120,000. The cost for a liver transplant is $400,000-$500,000. The cost to treat the inevitable liver cancer is several hundred thousand depending on when its caught, faster dead = cheaper. Wall street is pissed that a cure is available because its 8-12 weeks and that’s that.
With all that said 2 other notes. The USA is I think the last country where direct to consumer ads are allowed, NZ was the other but I think they went commie censor.
There are strains not yet prevalent in the usa that the meds have not been shown to kill (asia/Africa) and Europe is not likely to adopt because dead is cheaper.
With all that said medicare must pay for Hep C eradication, and that’s why you see the commercials.
Up until recently Hep C was incurable, and was very easy to contract the disease.
A doctor friend said “Put a drop of HIV (AIDS) infected blood into a 5 gallon pail of water, and it’s harmless, and no test can find it.”
“One drop of Hep C blood in a swimming pool without enough chlorine, swim in the pool with your eyes open or a cut, and you can contract the disease.”
This new cure cost the pharma company $1.3 billion to discover, test, market, etc. No wonder it’s expensive. But after a 12 week course of treatment, the formally terminally ill patient is cured.
Up until recently Hep C was incurable, and was very easy to contract the disease.
A doctor friend said “Put a drop of HIV (AIDS) infected blood into a 5 gallon pail of water, and it’s harmless, and no test can find it.”
“One drop of Hep C blood in a swimming pool without enough chlorine, swim in the pool with your eyes open or a cut, and you can contract the disease.”
This new cure cost the pharma company $1.3 billion to discover, test, market, etc. No wonder it’s expensive. But after a 12 week course of treatment, the formally terminally ill patient is cured.
It’s an ad campaign for a new Hep-C drug from the manufacturer. I’ve seen it a lot lately.