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>Fun fact: You cannot get emergency FDA approval for a vaccine (Remdesivir) if another effective drug exists (HCQ). Remdesivir is not a vaccine, it is an anti-
by leoh 6y ago
>Fun fact: You cannot get emergency FDA approval for a vaccine (Remdesivir) if another effective drug exists (HCQ).
Remdesivir is not a vaccine, it is an anti-viral, which is not the same thing. Moreover, the FDA is not going to block emergency approval for a vaccine with radically greater efficacy than an approved medicine used in an off-label manner. There are no approved drugs for COVID-19. There drugs approved for other illnesses that are used in an _off-label_ manner for COVI-19.