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Richard Lowenthal

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Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We replace it when it expires or if it's used.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And then the idea is that the nurse then has epinephrine that they can use to treat the child at the school if they have a reaction.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And they're not previously diagnosed and prescribed.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Children that are already diagnosed and prescribed bring their own epinephrine to school.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So this is not necessarily meant for children that have a prescription.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

It's really meant for those children that don't have a prescription.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And the other thing I want to mention about it is it's not available in all states yet.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

The states are making great progress in updating legislation.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

But in order for us to supply NEFI to a school system, the legislation in that state has to provide indemnification for the school personnel to use the epinephrine.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So laws have been put in place some time back to indemnify, protect school personnel.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

But most of those laws say injection.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

So right now we know, I think more than 20 states have updated their legislation already proactively also encouraged by the school nursing associations because the school nurses really want nephew and they really prefer the nephew rather than injecting the child.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And so the states seem to all be in the process of updating their legislation, but we know that about 20 of them, a little more than 20, I think, have already completed that process.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And we believe that almost all states in the country, probably within the next year, will have their legislation updated to allow the use of NEFE as well.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

And then we'll be able to supply NEFE to all schools within the country.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Yeah, well, on our capital, we're fairly well off on our cash at ARS.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We have enough cash capital to get to what we believe a point of cash neutral to where we'll be, I don't want to say profitable because

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

We may, at the point of getting close to cash neutral, want to spend more on direct-to-consumer or other efforts to promote NEFI and build the market share.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

But we believe we have enough cash.

Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation

Now, we did recently, in partnership with RA Capital, obtain a $250 million line of credit.