I was naïve enough, in March, to think that was what NIH was supposed to be doing.
I mean, it’s not like it’s a novel idea to repurpose an existing, tested drug with a known safety profile to address conditions it wasn’t originally intended for.
And it’s not exactly a novel idea to treat a disease early in its course, before the patient gets so sick he needs to be hospitalized (and saving hospital capacity was the initial sell for the ‘lockdown’.)
And it’s not exactly novel to treat a viral disease with combination therapies.
But the NIH did none of that. They sank all of their vast resources into studies of ‘hail Mary’ therapies for desperately ill patients, and billions for vaccines.
Now, I’m not anti-vax, and finding a way to bring someone back from the brink isn’t a bad thing, either. But the first focus should have been on catching it early and averting hospitalizations.
At least it’s now obvious to everyone that the system is totally corrupt.
I wish I thought that last was true. I’m not seeing it. None of this stuff is being talked about, reported, being treated as a lesson learned on how not to do things.