[Williams]

I can’t imagine any resistance to any drug that works. I don’t know what this woman is talking about.

[rlmorel]

The main reasons a lot of people who support President Trump (The MAGA People) like one drug regimen rather than another are:

• One drug is already approved for human use and has a long history, so side effects are well known.
• One is far cheaper, at $20 a dose versus $1000 a dose.
• One can be given under physician supervision as an outpatient, while the other one currently requires a four or five day admission.
• One appears to be just as effective if not more so at one fiftieth of the cost.
• From a non-medical or cost effectiveness aspect, the people who really support the far more expensive and invasive drug seem to enthusiastically root for things to be much worse, so that they may see their Leftist policies advanced, and police state tactics institutionalized. What, I'm a conspiracy theorist?
  • No good crisis should go to waste. Voiced in many different ways by prominent Leftists holding the levers of power.
  • Insertion of pork into an emergency bill that will drive us over the edge to immediately bankruptcy, voting changes, unemployment changes, climate alarmist Green New Deal items, the list goes on. Things that have ZERO to do with a pandemic crisis.

So, yeah. we are not only skeptical of the expensive drug and your support of it, we are skeptical of your professed desire (as shallow as it may be) to put this mess behind us.

[KC_for_Freedom]

Both drugs will work better if given early in the episode. The problem is HCQ was tested only in late stage (maybe too late) and this gave the impression that it was not any better than a placebo. But I asked my MD and he was involved in some Rem studies and favored it for me, if I ended up with symptoms. He was intending to get me on them rapidly but now that it is approved for emergency, I may not find a study.

My belief is that this has all been related to making money off the pandemic. Hospital treatment has been covered from the start and so naturally the drug trials are using hospitalized patients.

The hold off for HCQ made certain that it did not get widespread usage before Rem could be approved, and now they are even looking into whether Rem would be best in combination with an antibiotic (OK, what about Zinc?).

Hell, I even believe the screw up with the testing helped with this competition. Because rapid testing could have resulted in treatment earlier enough so that both drugs would end up with similar results. Now that the Rem has approval, lets see if the test snafu gets resolved in a few days?

But I agree with the sentiment that a drug that reduces death rates has got to be good. Maybe we will see the death rates start to drop instead of just flattening?