The whole repurposing of drugs selected by computer models is really an amazing phenomenon. And SARS-CoV2 seems to be one of the most vulnerable viruses out there.
Add Indomethacin to the “random drug kills COVID” list. And I have this one in my medicine cabinet.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.14.20245266v1.full.pdf
Ivermectin has been a hard sell, since most of the evidence showing its effectiveness consists of retrospective studies. I suspect that it’s highly effective at keeping people out of the hospital.
But the problem is political, not medical. For a lot of bad reasons, the Democrat party, the MSM, and the howler monkeys on Twitter have decided that There Must Be No Treatment, Only A Vaccine Will Do. (Well, until they think of their next demand.)
This strikes me as different, in that there’s a real, double-blind RCT, published in a JAMA property, and that this was used as an off-label treatment right in ground zero of Covid madness: the San Francisco Bay area.
With a competent media, or even a functioning opposition party, it would become difficult for Gavin Newsom, London Breed, or Eric Garcetti to continue their draconian war against small business in FR’s home state.
On balance, I think that would be a good thing.