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It was 2020 when the drug was undergoing development.. literally throw everything at the wall and try to stave off the mass death from uncontrolled spread. For
by mikeyouse 4y ago
It was 2020 when the drug was undergoing development.. literally throw everything at the wall and try to stave off the mass death from uncontrolled spread. Fortunately other therapeutics worked as well, the vaccines were developed quickly and had very high efficacy, and subsequent strains of Covid mostly became more mild (this wasn't a guarantee, regardless of how insistent people may be).
The drug works, it reduces hospitalization and mortality in people who take it, but we don't actually need it for the most part so these studies are just further confirmation of that.
- strbean 4y agoThe study linked in another comment finds that it doesn't reduce hospitalization or mortality: https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o3055 https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o3055 And while I understand the "see what sticks" mentality, drastically increasing the mutation rate of the virus responsible for a global pandemic... seems to me like it's on the order of "maybe we start dropping nukes, that'll slow the spread".
- mikeyouse 4y agoIt doesn't in vaccinated people - but it did in unvaccinated people. There was no guarantee that we'd develop a vaccine in any reasonable amount of time, and reducing deaths and the overburdening of our limited health care resources was the #1 goal in 2020.