It’s more like a series of natural experiments, conducted accidentally.
A big part of the early opposition was certainly anti-Trumpism, but the continued resistance, in the face of now overwhelming evidence requires additional explanations.
my understanding is that the poorer regions of India were using it with great results from the get go, it was the richer areas that balked on hcq and ivermectin as “beneath” them.
so i guess it’s a form of federalism in India like ours (maybe even derived from our Constitution), where fla and sd made the right choices and ny, nj, wa, made the wrong.
all i can say is thank God for federalism and our founders, because at least some of the people were protected in this way.
“A big part of the early opposition was certainly anti-Trumpism, but the continued resistance, in the face of now overwhelming evidence requires additional explanations.”
The explanation is very clear. You cannot get eua (emergency use authorization) approval unless there is no effective existing treatment.
Pharma and public health organizations (now heavily controlled by pharma) wanted vaccine eua. “Determining” that hydroxychloroquine and/or Ivermectin were “dangerous” and/or “ineffective” allowed them to get the covid vaccine eua.