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Why are vaccines so favored over treatments?
American Thinker ^ | 9 May, 2021 | John M. Contino

Posted on 05/09/2021 5:06:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A new drug is being floated to treat COVID. How will the government, the medical industry, and the media react?

On March 17, 2021, Emory's non-profit drug development company DRIVE announced its discovery of a new antiviral drug, called molnupiravir (formerly EIDD-2801), which can be administered to outpatients in pill form, and which

appears safe and reduces SARS-CoV-2 to undetectable levels in COVID-19 patients after five days of administration, according to data from a Phase II clinical trial in the United States[.] ... Although remdesivir and antiviral monoclonal antibodies have received Emergency Use Authorizations from the FDA, they must be given intravenously or by injection. In addition, drugs like molnupiravir could flexibly tackle SARS-CoV-2 variants, which have emerged as a concern in recent months.

Additionally, "EIDD-2801 has broad spectrum activity against a number of diseases of public health concern, including influenza, SARS-CoV-1, MERS, chikungunya, Ebola and equine encephalitis."

Ridgeback Biotherapeutics and Merck are involved with the licensing, testing, and manufacturing of this drug. Merck recently announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with five generic Indian drug companies to manufacture and distribute it in India.

When it comes to COVID therapeutics, whether they be older, repurposed drugs or hot-off-the-press wonder drugs, the watchword (or phrase) seems to be curb your enthusiasm!

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: antivaxxers; covid19
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1 posted on 05/09/2021 5:06:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Does not advance government control....trash can.


2 posted on 05/09/2021 5:07:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Because they return a better profit, not to mention they are far more damaging than therapies.


3 posted on 05/09/2021 5:09:31 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: MtnClimber

$$$$$$$$

And control.


4 posted on 05/09/2021 5:12:00 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: JonPreston
Because they return a better profit, not to mention they are far more damaging than therapies.

Which will then demand yet more medical treatment. It’s a great scenario to give yourself job security.

5 posted on 05/09/2021 5:13:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: JonPreston

And it is not a vaccine, it is am engineered gene therapy.


6 posted on 05/09/2021 5:14:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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There is huge money from people like Bill Gates behind “saving humanity.” My problem with this is, what, exactly do they mean when they say saving humanity? Every true liberal I have ever known has secretly wanted a genocide of people they don’t know so that they can breath clean, unpolluted air. (Oh, and enjoy products made by slave labor performed by...uh...people they don’t know. Ya know? I see a problem there.)


7 posted on 05/09/2021 5:17:01 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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I've said for years....The pharm industry wants everyone in the world on some type of med for the rest of their lives. This pandemic is their best choice.

Remember...drugs do not cure...they alter symptoms.

8 posted on 05/09/2021 5:19:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: metmom

Yes indeed and not to mention Covid is over. It’s O.V.E.R., it’s finished, it’s DONE. People are returning to their lives, pre-COVID. And THEY are still pimping an experimental vaxx? No thanks.


9 posted on 05/09/2021 5:20:29 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: MtnClimber

money.

FauXi and CDC patented the GOFunction-coronavirus,
its tests, observing it, measuring it, “vaccines”,
and the like.

cheap available preventatives and cures
HAD to be sequestered, removed, and their CEOs slain.


10 posted on 05/09/2021 5:22:28 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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I got the J&J vaccine yesterday, but not without problems.
I went in to Walmart with my ID card, my insurance card and my Medicare card.
Walmart told me I couldn’t get vaccinated because, I already received the vaccination.

I went home and called Medicare (actually online Chat). They confirmed that a vaccine was administered to me in San Diego. I informed them that I hadn’t been to San Diego in at least 15 years. They asked a whole bunch more questions and finally decided that someone in San Diego was using my Medicare number. This caused them to put a fraud lock on my number for California and they cleared things for Buffalo and New York.
I went back to Walmart explained things to them; they checked and I was approved and received my J&J shot.

This is what happens when there is no restriction on illegals coming into the country.


11 posted on 05/09/2021 5:26:28 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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Oh, no, you totally wrong!
Generally, vaccines are very low profit!
Covid may be exception, because President Trump wanted them so much and was willing to pay the price.
Otherwise, vaccines are drag, nobody wants to make them.
The problem is, they are usually one shot and done, no repeated business. No good for business.
The money is in medicines. People dying of diseases are willing to pay any price. When you are going get real Covid, really hard, you will pay a lot more than the jab is worth!
But the best money is in repeated maintenance medicines. Think cholesterol, blood pressure, insulin etc. The best moneymakers by far are antidepressants. There are a lot of crazy people around, and they are very reliable, repeated customers.


12 posted on 05/09/2021 5:29:15 AM PDT by AZJeep (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0AHQkryIIs)
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13 posted on 05/09/2021 5:33:38 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: AZJeep
Pfizer - $3.5 billion in profits in 3 months
14 posted on 05/09/2021 5:37:15 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Sacajaweau

“The pharm industry wants everyone in the world on some type of med for the rest of their lives.”

LOL, tell me about it. I even know people who are STILL on Statins, even though its benefits have been TOTALLY DEBUNKED.

Amazing how much power that bunch has!


15 posted on 05/09/2021 5:37:55 AM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: MtnClimber

‘It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world’. Seems fitting due to the whole handling of CV-19. From news organizations falsely claiming HCQ can kill you, The Lancet agreeing and then retracting the story since it was a hoax. To the transparent misuse of PCR tests to over diagnos Covid (even many on FR still use their numbers.) Appears the garbage is here to stay. Many Conservatives in name only are advocating for Vaccine passports. Things are a little alarming.


16 posted on 05/09/2021 5:39:57 AM PDT by week 71
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To: MtnClimber

Why?

Because in this case, none of this was ever about public health.


17 posted on 05/09/2021 5:42:11 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MtnClimber; All

posts ^


18 posted on 05/09/2021 5:48:25 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Some food for thought...

Vaccines now deadlier than 9/11

Deaths, injuries, economic destruction...

Deep State is make Islamists look like pikers.

19 posted on 05/09/2021 5:51:36 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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...is making...


20 posted on 05/09/2021 5:52:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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