Off-patent drugs have been around for decades, carry established safety profiles, are easier & cheaper to mass produce. But @WHO @US_FDA disregard growing mountain of evidence that supports safe, proven generics in #COVID19 treatment, e.g. #ivermectin. bit.ly/2Ti8jgr 1/9
2/9 Instead, they impose arbitrary & impossibly high standards that are delaying and derailing approval for repurposed drugs bit.ly/3xNLOir. @PierreKory 20 months after this virus first surfaced in China, health authorities still can't recommend any treatment at all
3/9 for #COVID19 patients, let alone those suffering from Post-COVID or #longhaul syndrome (upwards of 25% patients have persistent symptoms in the aftermath of acute infection) bit.ly/3ktAUu7. Are we expected to suffer in silence and wait for companies to develop novel
4/9 drugs because existing ones make no money? Yes! Bringing new drugs to market delivers enormous payoff to multiple stakeholders. @Merck has struck $1.2 billion deal with US govt. to develop an antiviral drug bwnews.pr/3rg44OK. This is the same Merck that said #ivermectin
5/9 has “no scientific basis for a therapeutic effect and no meaningful evidence for clinical efficacy" against #COVID19 but that it does have a “concerning lack of safety” bit.ly/2VGysWT. This is the same Merck that developed ivermectin in the 1980s
6/9 and "proudly congratulated" its scientist when he won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine for ivermectin. bwnews.pr/3BmneYf. Over the last 30 yrs, 3.7 bn doses of ivermectin have been administered globally, thanks largely to Merck's ivermectin donation program.
7/9 Created in 1987 to distribute this miracle drug free of charge, it continues today as the longest-running, disease-specific drug donation program. @WHO database vigiaccess.org (compiles reported side effects of medicinal products) shows 16 deaths, 4700 total adverse
8/9 events related to ivermectin since 1992. Yet, we're told it is unsafe. In the complete absence of treatment options, what do we have to lose by giving ivermectin to #COVID19 patients? We know @Merck stands to lose billions. Abandoning clinical treatment = gross negligence
9/9 Denying alleviation of suffering to tens of thousands, despite access to proven safe drugs that kill this virus, can only be described as reprehensible. bit.ly/3z594Zo #IvermectinSavesLives #Cure #COVID19 @Covid19Critical
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