Originally posted by mikewhitney
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The scientific findings so far on its usefulness in treating COVID are mixed. At best you could say it's probably mildly beneficial for people who's COVID infections have developed to the point of being possibly lethal, to be given it by doctors in a controlled setting in controlled amounts, so long as those patients don't have any of the underlying conditions that this medication reacts dangerously with.
It is clear from the research on it, that it is not a magic pill that cures COVID for anyone and everyone.
I say this as someone who is a scientist, and someone who is very anti big-pharma and who thinks all pharmaceutical companies should be nationalised and purely government funded and their medicines made available free of charge to all once discovered. (Fun fact: The amount of $$ private pharmaceutical companies actually spend on R&D of new drugs, as opposed to marketing, executive salaries, shareholder profit etc, is way below 1% of Western Government's budgets, those governments could easily fund all global pharma research if they felt like it - instead of subsidizing private pharma companies to do that research and then paying them huge $$$ to buy the end product drugs off them which all goes to the private shareholders in profit and rich CEOs.) But there's no 'big pharma' conspiracy in this instance - this drug is known to doctors around the world and plenty have tried it on COVID patients, and it hasn't shown itself to be any kind of miracle cure.
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