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The Incentives to Dismantle Repurposed Drugs
The incentives to destroy repurposed drugs were the same incentive supporting the vaccines. Ivermectin is a drug that is dosed based on body weight, and of course, COVID is a disease in which the hazard of the disease goes up spectacularly with excess body weight. And so you would expect if this was a highly effective drug, you would see it in people who were obese. But cryptically, there's a cutoff at which for no reason they stop increasing the dose,. It's specifically under doses, the patients who are likely to be sickest and therefore creates the impression that the drug is not effective.