Replies to post #625455 on NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

[CaptainObvious]

I think it's 'not likely', but possible sometime in the future.

[beartrap12]

space-farm, several of the big pharmacy chains already have deep freeze storage capacity, which was required for several of the Covid shots. In many ways, I view the Covid crisis as an unexpected dry-run for deploying DCVax. Doctors, clinics, and pharmacies had to get the equipment necessary and the country had to perfect a method of transporting vaccines that required constant deep freeze conditions. They also had to educate their employees on handling a new type of medicine. I suspect the DCVax shots have similar deep freeze requirements so their may not be any new equipment requirements. As I just wrote to drugrunner, I think the pharmacy option will be used primarily by patients in rural areas that don't have easy access to doctors. It's another choice given to patients. Would you or I chose to use a pharmacy over a doctor's office for DCVax? Probably not because I think we would prefer doctors and nurses handling a very personalized shot, but I did use the pharmacy for the deep-freeze Covid shots.

[sentiment_stocks]

I thought that the Pfizer COVID shots had to be cyrofrozen until thawed.. so wouldn’t the pharmacies already have to have the capacity to store a DCVax-L vaccine?

[kabunushi]

These are full-service pharmacies that do vaccinations and are staffed by professional pharmacists who have the same qualifications as pharmacists in any hospital. The covid vaccines require frozen storage - the first ones required much lower temps than now but that makes me think that any pharmacy that provided covid vaccinations probably has deep freezers that can store DcVax.

Now, what is required to administer the vaccine? If it's a simple intermuscular injection clearly any pharmacist can give the shot. As far as I know, it's not given IV, if that were the case then probably they don't do that in a pharmacy, probably that requires at least an RN. Many patients will not be within a short drive of their nearest academic cancer center, so if the infusion of Dc-Vax consists of a mere injection it's more than a little inconvenient for the patients to commute many times to the cancer center just to get an injection. isn't it? If it's just an injection like the pharmacies are doing for many other vaccines, and if they have the requisite deep freezing cold storage freezers then I don't see any reason that NWBO could not contract with a Walgreens or similar mega chain drug store for distribution to patients. And that seems likely to be the most economical for all involved.

The fact that Walgreens also sells ice cream has nothing to do with their pharmacy operations, don't be daft about that. Covid and many other vaccines are also provided in retail pharmacies attached to grocery stores like Safeway. Those pharmacists are also as qualified as pharmacists anywhere - they aren't working in any department other than the pharmacies that supply prescription meds to most members of their communities.