Good point @ 12.
I think in hindsight, if Trump could have pushed anything harder during Covid he wishes he had pushed treatments as hard as the vaccine push. We could have done both.
I hear people say all the time that if there was a remedy they would not have gotten the EUA to allow the vaccines to be approved. That was nothing more than a pen swipe for Trump.
Instead, we let the media dominate the response for partisan purposes. The biggest bunch of moronic know-nothings in the history of humanity called the shots because orange man bad.
Trump put Pence in charge. Pence actually received an email from a pair of doctors touting HCQ that was CC: to Fauxi.
After 3+ years of attacks, some even from repubs, Trump seemed a little gun shy.