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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I’m not hyping. You’re logically illiterate here. Sorry. But you are. And you know it. You’re grasping.

You don’t know, and the quantum of evidence is anecdote, but it’s bigger than what you’ve got, which is just: “We need a study.”

Stand down. Let the experiment run its course. (Which is a whole other argument against why no one in his right mind should not be behind trying every drug here.)

There is a study. What I find much more interesting is the ongoing research with the BCG vaccine, which may explain why there haven't been the type of outbreaks in places like Africa and Central America as there has been in more developed countries. 100 million babies a year get it all over the world.

Every scientist in the world who has the ability is looking into all of these possible solutions. Pinning hopes on one or another is probably not going to work, but in combination they might buy time to get to the vaccine.

BTW, my favorite part of the BCG wiki is yet another demonstration that the US method of relying on capitalism through monopoly has some very fucked up results.

It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system.[5] Between 2011 and 2014 the wholesale price was US$0.16 to US$1.11 a dose in the developing world.[6][7] In the United States it costs US$100 to US$200.[8]