Let me come back to Ivermectin and how the West could sour on it in this pandemic. Ivermectin was a Nobel winning product from the USA in the 70s for the way it revolutionised treatments for worm infestations in the third world countries and saved millions and millions of lives. I understand it has its own World Day, a very rare honour. Was the top administration there not aware of this past ? Wouldn’t it have been an honour revisited for the USA if they had led the promotion of Ivermectin treatment for Covid world wide ? It would have saved a million of their own deaths, millions more world wide too. How did this not happen ?
On the medicinal system in the West ( the USA in particular), one thing puzzled me here. There it is always about insurance. And they will cover only the drugs approved by them and in turn doctors too have to follow them only in prescriptions. Is that correct ? That being the case, they are better off covering low cost mostly generic medicine based treatments ( in Covid, more effective also), than the very expensive patented drugs like Remdesivir, Paxlovid etc. Their refunds/payouts will be small and their profit margins more. That puts them in contention with the equally powerful big Pharma, though, as they will now be supporting low cost, generic medicines. Why doesn’t this happen ? Any thoughts.
Great, painstaking work. Will be a very good compilation for future too. The medicinal system in the West is stifling for situations like this pandemic. It is not that the doctors there are not aware of the successful work of doctors in other lesser countries. They are hamstrung in carrying forward those experiences in their practice. It is not a surprise that the medically advanced West is roiling under reinfections, long covid, long vax etc because of its poor clinical approach. You have mentioned about the Ivermectin usage in India, but there were other star performers too - Azithromycin, Montelukast, Levocetrizine and a few others, particularly anti histamines. They will
all come under the $ 1 category of cost, or $ 10 if you must. As a long retired industrial R&D chemist (PhD) from India with reading interests in medicinal chemistry ( not worked), I have looked at the chemical structures of over 700 common drugs from several indications and families, including those above and some from your list ( e.g. quercitin, fluvoxamine, famotidine etc). I would consider 9 out of 10 of them as antiviral in the context of covid, a property conferred on them by their chemical structure features. Any combination of 3 or 4 of them, like the set I mentioned ahead, based on observed clinical conditions, would have doused this virus in the initial phase itself, mostly under simple home care. Like what happened in India since mid 2021 at the height of delta wave. I would often comment how in 2020 and in part 2021, the world struggled to fight this disese, even as simple cure was available in any pharmacy shelves, hiding in plain sight, what with the vaccines dominating the narrative totally.
Let me come back to Ivermectin and how the West could sour on it in this pandemic. Ivermectin was a Nobel winning product from the USA in the 70s for the way it revolutionised treatments for worm infestations in the third world countries and saved millions and millions of lives. I understand it has its own World Day, a very rare honour. Was the top administration there not aware of this past ? Wouldn’t it have been an honour revisited for the USA if they had led the promotion of Ivermectin treatment for Covid world wide ? It would have saved a million of their own deaths, millions more world wide too. How did this not happen ?
On the medicinal system in the West ( the USA in particular), one thing puzzled me here. There it is always about insurance. And they will cover only the drugs approved by them and in turn doctors too have to follow them only in prescriptions. Is that correct ? That being the case, they are better off covering low cost mostly generic medicine based treatments ( in Covid, more effective also), than the very expensive patented drugs like Remdesivir, Paxlovid etc. Their refunds/payouts will be small and their profit margins more. That puts them in contention with the equally powerful big Pharma, though, as they will now be supporting low cost, generic medicines. Why doesn’t this happen ? Any thoughts.
Great, painstaking work. Will be a very good compilation for future too. The medicinal system in the West is stifling for situations like this pandemic. It is not that the doctors there are not aware of the successful work of doctors in other lesser countries. They are hamstrung in carrying forward those experiences in their practice. It is not a surprise that the medically advanced West is roiling under reinfections, long covid, long vax etc because of its poor clinical approach. You have mentioned about the Ivermectin usage in India, but there were other star performers too - Azithromycin, Montelukast, Levocetrizine and a few others, particularly anti histamines. They will
all come under the $ 1 category of cost, or $ 10 if you must. As a long retired industrial R&D chemist (PhD) from India with reading interests in medicinal chemistry ( not worked), I have looked at the chemical structures of over 700 common drugs from several indications and families, including those above and some from your list ( e.g. quercitin, fluvoxamine, famotidine etc). I would consider 9 out of 10 of them as antiviral in the context of covid, a property conferred on them by their chemical structure features. Any combination of 3 or 4 of them, like the set I mentioned ahead, based on observed clinical conditions, would have doused this virus in the initial phase itself, mostly under simple home care. Like what happened in India since mid 2021 at the height of delta wave. I would often comment how in 2020 and in part 2021, the world struggled to fight this disese, even as simple cure was available in any pharmacy shelves, hiding in plain sight, what with the vaccines dominating the narrative totally.
Incompetent but honest people don't lie. They don't engage in sophistries. They seek multiple independent opinions.
Also honest people don't take on jobs above their stations.