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Patient advocates implored Nath to speed up the study by, for instance, bringing in two patients simultaneously. Or to bring in a patient and a healthy volunteer together. They tried this but decided they didn't have the staff bandwidth to do it. Nath and Walitt both had many other responsibilities & studies to attend to. As a senior NIH official told me about this whole thing: Everyone at NIH has a full plate. They have to push some stuff to the side to make room for new things. 8/