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Wrong - there are countries it’s being widely used in. For example, India and many Easter European countries (and some S. American???). We need effective vacci

• leesalminen 5y ago
  > I don’t understand this push to discredit any therapeutic before reasonable research has even been conducted. It’s simple. Money. Companies like it and want more of it.
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > I don’t understand this push to discredit any therapeutic before reasonable research has even been conducted. No such thing exists. There are literally dozens of therapeutics in trials , and a few actually approved and in non-trial general use (dexamethasone, remdesevir, and favilavir, in various jurisdictions) — for both, see [0] — the ones that tend to get strongly negative treatment are hydroxychloroquine (not actually in trials) and ivermectin (in Phase 2/3 trials), both on the basis of unsupported scams around both earlier in the pandemic, not any general aversion to therapeutics. [0] https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-therapeutics-tracker https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/...