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> 2.) Emergency use authorization for the vaccines relied on there being no available alternative treatment That's simply so factually wrong it's tough to take
by weaksauce 5y ago
> 2.) Emergency use authorization for the vaccines relied on there being no available alternative treatment
That's simply so factually wrong it's tough to take it as serious. having a treatment that might lessen the severity of some percentage of the people that get covid has absolutely nothing to do with a prophylactic EUA for a vaccine that is wildly efficacious against mild and severe covid cases and stop you from getting it in the first place. Let's do a thought experiment even if that were true... that would mean the other vaccines that are under an EUA would have been revoked the moment Pfizer got their full approval which didn't happen. This is "there are naval insignias on the flags therefore we are not a constitutional democracy" level of conspiratorial thinking.
> 1.) Ivermectin is out of patent and dirt cheap; basically not profitable at all
that's the reason they threw it at the virus in the first place. They were looking for anything that might help.
- loonster 5y agoOne of the reasons it got looked at was due to a scabies outbreak at Valley View Nursing Home in Toronto that coincidentally had a Covid outbreak at the same time in early 2020. Oddly enough, the residents that had scabies did better than the residents that didn't.