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.
I totally agree. It was perhaps his biggest mistake. He did so many important things including deployment of the DPA, knocking pharma heads around, forcing the FDA to loosen the federal grip on testing labs and so much more.
But he talked up HCQ and the institutions of state immediately ridiculed him for it. He may have been a little gun shy, and I would bet that the careerists in the NIH/CDC/FDA were staunchly resistant to the idea that something off the shelf could be used. Why? You can guess at that as well as I can. No money to be made on generic pills and vitamins and minerals. No glory to be had discovering it. Too much glory to POTUS Trump if they did work.
Worst of all, if Ivermectin+ therapy or HCQ+ therapy was shown to work well then there would be no need to advance this mRNA technology. In fact, it would have destroyed the clinical trials for the vaccines since anyone on either arm could just go out and get an easy treatment. mRNA may have potential, it has been around many years but never before used to advance a single drug, vaccine or therapeutic into the world. IMO people like Fauci wanted the money to go there, and purposefully excluded all other options to protect those mRNA vaccine studies. (and let’s not forget, they also flubbed the testing remember the 3 reagent tests, that failed, so they just arbitrarily decided to toss out one of the reagents - some ‘scientist’ he is but frankly in an emergency you gotta work with what you’ve got which makes the kibosh they put on IVM and HCQ and others so much more frustrating).
Still leaving tens of millions of people in the lurch particularly those currently infected where a vaccine is too late. Those people do not serve the interests of humanity. FFS even the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention couldn’t be bothered to replenish stockpiles of PPE after 10 years and they have thousands of worker bees and billions of dollars to spend every year. But more fun to examine shrimp running on a treadmill.