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Personally, I'd like to know a bit more context. How many TUEs have been signed off for this or similar drugs in the last 10 years? The number of TUEs issued is in relatively steep decline. Why is this? Are the panel getting stricter or is it due to the now legalisation of more standard asthma treatments hence much less need for TUEs for these type of common treatments?
When lance got a retrospective TUE for this drug, was the focus after this on the "retrospectiveness" or were people as wound up by the fact he was allowed to inject a steroid in the first place? If it's been common knowledge that you can get this on a TUE for this long, you'd expect quite a lot of people would have been trying to get one.