I’ve been thinking the reason they want to get a knockout drug is that this virus has the potential to mutate into a virus that kills not just the “at risk” but healthy individuals. The malaria drug just masks the symptoms it does not stop the virus. That is what happened with the Spanish Flu. The more people that get this the more likely that the virus mutates. Trump nor Fauci want to be left with that consequence as his responsibility. You can’t come out and say that because there would be a worse panic. I understand that because this virus originated from an animal that mutation is possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9FkNPRwt_M That is what happened with the Spanish Flu. The second wave that came in the fall was a mutated version spread by wartime troops. https://www.history.com/news/spanish-flu-second-wave-resurgence
“As U.S. troops deployed en masse for the war effort in Europe, they carried the Spanish flu with them. Throughout April and May of 1918, the virus spread like wildfire through England, France, Spain and Italy. An estimated three-quarters of the French military was infected in the spring of 1918 and as many as half of British troops. Luckily, the first wave of the virus wasn’t particularly deadly, with symptoms like high fever and malaise usually lasting only three days, and mortality rates were similar to seasonal flu.
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Reported cases of Spanish flu dropped off over the summer of 1918, and there was hope at the beginning of August that the virus had run its course. In retrospect, it was only the calm before the storm. Somewhere in Europe, a mutated strain of the Spanish flu virus had emerged that had the power to kill a perfectly healthy young man or woman within 24 hours of showing the first signs of infection.
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Harris believes that the rapid spread of Spanish flu in the fall of 1918 was at least partially to blame on public health officials unwilling to impose quarantines during wartime. In Britain, for example, a government official named Arthur Newsholme knew full well that a strict civilian lockdown was the best way to fight the spread of the highly contagious disease. But he wouldn’t risk crippling the war effort by keeping munitions factory workers and other civilians home.”
“Harris believes that the rapid spread of Spanish flu in the fall of 1918 was at least partially to blame on public health officials unwilling to impose quarantines during wartime. In Britain, for example, a government official named Arthur Newsholme knew full well that a strict civilian lockdown was the best way to fight the spread of the highly contagious disease. But he wouldn’t risk crippling the war effort by keeping munitions factory workers and other civilians home.”
And if a quarantines had been imposed?