Lyn Redwood, RNDr. Fauci and COVID-19 Priorities: Therapeutics Now or Vaccines Later?
The rapidity with which normal life has ground to a halt as a result of coronavirus-related edicts has stunned citizens around the world, generating massive social and economic upheaval.
Meanwhile, media coverage of COVID-19 has whipped up unprecedented levels of public anxiety and fear, laying the psychological groundwork for people to eagerly embrace “magic bullet” medical solutions, no matter how experimental.
In the U.S., the World Health Organization (WHO) is now compounding the domestic panic, warning that America could become the new coronavirus “epicenter.”
Across the country, a debate is raging about the nation’s medical response and how best to apportion available resources. Many argue, quite reasonably, for the importance of identifying safe, effective and affordable therapies that can provide immediate help to those who are sick.
On March 22, The New York Times reported that there are at least 69 existing drugs or compounds that might be effective in treating the coronavirus.
In China, researchers are studying intravenous vitamin C as a potential nontoxic treatment, while a paper published by French researchers on March 20 described promising COVID-19 results from the off-label use of hydroxychloroquine (an antimalarial) and azithromycin (an antibiotic).
The head of the French team, Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, is one of the world’s top infectious disease and virology experts, with roughly 2,000 peer-reviewed publications and multiple awards to his name.
Raoult and coauthors point out that a major advantage of “repositioning” older drugs for this coronavirus is that their safety profile, side effects, dosing and drug interactions are already well documented.
However, Ian Lipkin, MD, of Columbia University recently told MSNBC, with a grin, that investments tend to go toward treatments that are “sexy and new and patentable” rather than to “tried-and-true, classical sort of methods repurposing drugs and strategies that have already been shown to work.” Fauci’s tired rhetoric
For biopharma companies that are poised to profit from COVID-19-related misfortune, older drugs that have outlived their patent terms are not terribly helpful for the bottom line.
Could this be why leading White House coronavirus advisor Anthony Fauci, MD, long-time head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), recently pooh-poohed the published chloroquine evidence as merely “anecdotal”?
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Poster Comment:
I wonder if we will be able to take these people down via the Internet or if we are just watching the train wreck coming towards us...
So far, it looks like the latter. However social media is a stronger influence than it has been in the past. They are trying to control it, but will that work, or will people just shift to other platforms? There are already several video platforms and a few budding faceberg alternatives.
#1: NeoconsNailed To: Anthem (#0)
We the sheeple could get anything done we want thru the simplest applications of people power -- but most ppl prefer their chains, don't want to believe it's that bad or are just blissful airheads.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Be9f7Ovgg
NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 02:33:33 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
No doubt there. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 07:37:15 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
The last two in that Mark Dice interview had it together.
But shame on him for trying to mislead people. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 07:45:07 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 07:47:28 Reply Private Reply
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And a few of them look like they would be into Ebonics and break dancing. LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 08:38:10 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 14:50:12 Reply Private Reply
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FormerLurker posted on 2020-03-28 14:56:53 Reply Private Reply
#8: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#6)
No idea. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 15:40:07 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 15:42:25 Reply Private Reply
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I bet they had to be quick with that pry bar. LOL
When I worked for the State Highways we would pick them up near larger potholes. We would take them to a place in Des Plaines, IL and sell them for a couple bucks each. Five bucks for a nice spoked cap. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 15:51:49 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 15:56:26 Reply Private Reply
#12: Esso To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
"...Jesse Ventura, John Wilkes Booth and the other Founding Fathers..."
Gawd, LOL!
Esso posted on 2020-03-28 16:01:24 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 16:02:16 Reply Private Reply
#14: Anthem To: NeoconsNailed (#1)
That is the primary reason why I strongly disagree with "one man, one vote". I think there should be two qualifications for the Office of Voter:
- Must not receive payment of any kind* from government, directly or indirectly through an organization which receives funding of any amount from the government.
- Must pass a rigorous civics test.
*Does not include return of overpayment of taxes, which is not a payment by the government, rather it is a return of taxpayer's property.Anthem posted on 2020-03-28 16:23:59 Reply Private Reply
#15: Anthem To: FormerLurker (#7)
I had that exact same thought.
Anthem posted on 2020-03-28 16:31:38 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 18:00:57 Reply Private Reply
#17: BTP Holdings To: NeoconsNailed (#11)
I think it was more like taking booze from his mouth. ROTFLMAO!
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 18:18:53 Reply Private Reply
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All immigrants must pass that Civics test when they apply for citizenship after being here the required length of time.
It is like old Abe Lincoln said, "Study the Constitution." ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-03-28 18:22:15 Reply Private Reply
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NeoconsNailed posted on 2020-03-28 19:07:53 Reply Private Reply
#20: Anthem To: BTP Holdings (#18)
Yes, they are probably more qualified to vote than most native born Americans.
I am not trying to eliminate native born citizenship. Keep in mind that when the Constitution was written there were requirements to be qualified to vote (male, and property owner). I am reviving the idea of qualifications, but changing them to fit a modern non-agrarian, and supposedly literate, society.
Anthem posted on 2020-03-28 19:22:10 Reply Private Reply