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it's off patent for decades now, it's less than 10 cents a pill in the third world and less than a dollar a pill in usa, there's no money to be made off it, whi

• kortex 6y ago
  It's so easy to bypass the "but it's off-patent and therefore not profitable" A) homochiral enantiomers B) analogues C) cocktails "Our formulation of Norivermectin plus Foobarmanolib is 10% more effective and has 3.5% fewer incidence of side effects. The small increase in effectiveness is projected to decrease hospital stays by 4.5 h, leading to 2 million lives potentially saved." Boom, profitable, patentable COVID cure. Doctors could still prescribe plain ivermectin off-label but would be incentivized by pharma reps to sell name brand. Norivermectin and Foobarmanolib are hypothetical, of course. But the trick is real, see escitalopram, armodafinil, aripiprazole + antidepressants, etc.
• cmrdporcupine 6y ago
  I don't see it as buried at all. Multiple studies done. All out in the open.