I forgot that they were testing an HIV drug for this new virus. Good job linking the two! This paper is by Indian authors at IIT and University of Delhi, not the typical Chinese authors we’ve seen in the Lancet papers. That is certainly suspicious.
Good job!
Look up the stock AbbVie. I wonder if the Dr. Evil will try to make some money while killing people. Dr. Evil would have not release it, if they did not have a treatment in place.
In guidance published on Thursday, the government said there is no effective anti-virus medicine but suggested taking two lopinavir/ritonavir pills and inhaling a dose of nebulized alpha-interferon twice a day.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-abbvie-hiv/china-testing-hiv-drug-as-treatment-for-new-coronavirus-abbvie-says-idUSKBN1ZP0QK
1. So Thursday would be a full week before the Indian paper was published.
2. And walking the timeline back further, think about how long it takes a government (particularly a top-down government) to actually publish guidance, from the time that someone figures out what the guidance should be. A week?
3. And if they supposedly found this treatment by trial and error rather than foreknowledge, how long did that process take? First they had to guess the right treatment and then they had to see some results. Another week, two?
4. So that means that someone either psychic, an incredibly good guesser, an absolutely amazing clinical doctor or .... they had a pretty good idea what was in that virus roughly a month before it was decoded.