Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

[To infinity and beyond!]

Still in cardigan mode, Leo faces the camera, seeking his audience, his shareholders.

-We are just going to sit here and wait, everyone, for important intervals, Day 8 and then Day 15 and then day 29. And then finally, one month later we will reach 60 days after the last patient is treated in our company trial.

-But Mr Ehrlich, said a tentative voice. Don't you have a drug that might help save the lives of some who will die of COVID? Can't you help those people?

-Well shareholders, that is what trials are all about. We wait 60 long days after first treatment and that was the plan all along.

-But Mr Ehrlich, don't you think that in these circumstances that you could present some conclusions from Days 8 and 15 and 29, rather than waiting until it is too late to save people ? Help them. If you can help them you should. We should.

-Won't you be my neighbor, and sit with me while we wait? That is all I ask. Some people will die needlessly, sooner than they must, if our drug works, but that is how trials work.

-But Mr Ehrlich, this is a pandemic and we owe it to the world to say if we can help. What you are doing is wrong.

-Another voice, less tentative. But Mr Ehrlich says we have to wait. So that is what we will do. We will sit by and let people suffer and die and maybe help them in October. Or sometime thereafter.

-That's right, shareholders. We just wait. Because I said so. And some of you are just dumb enough to agree. How about a story? Maybe I can tell you a story while we wait?