Yup. It’s even worse when it’s designed to fail for PR purposes.
I’m terribly disappointed that so much energy was put into destroying potentially viable off the shelf treatments by the CDC/NIH/FDA and the many states/pharmacy boards and the media following their lead. And of course, most doctors and hospitals following a similar institutional response. I don’t for a second believe it had anything to do with caring for patients and in any case what is a vaccine going to do for the millions of unresolved cases still pending in the USA and around the world?
Ivermectin seems to be even better than HCQ especially if you don’t catch it early enough. Small-ish countries that don’t expect to get vaccines anytime soon are buying it in massive quantities. This may end up being a case where the USA lead the world in the exact wrong direction.
President Trump blew it by not launching a huge, full-scale, Operation Warp Speed II to evaluate existing drugs by themselves and in combination with other drugs. We would have had the necessary randomized clinical trials of many drugs and countless combinations by summer last year and that would have resulted in numerous approved therapies.
I bought Ivermectin to keep on hand last January.