There are still a few holdouts flogging their fake skepticism. Time magazine wrote yesterday there was ‘scant evidence that it works’. Some of these people are rooting for the disease because they can’t win the ideological battle they hope the virus and economic fallout will do what they could not.
I very much want to think the very best of the American pharmaceutical industry. I understand the regulatory challenges and costs they face bringing a new product to market, in spite of which they have still made many tremendous advances. That said, I can't shake my concerns about the revolving door, incestuous relationship between the upper levels of the FDA, AMA and pharmaceutical companies.
I truly hope and pray that all the downplaying of the hydroxychloroquine, results has nothing to do with the pharmaceuticals holding out for more profitable treatment protocol as they have little to gain if a known, low cost treatment fills the bill. If that does turn out to be the case, I hope names are named and the responsible parties are flayed alive.