The point is, if it was really that severe, they wouldn't be handing out health certificates for 100 bucks.
Oh man ! This logic is just so bad. Human greed has no end, buddy.
I will give you an example - and this was in "normal" times - I was working for Doctors without Borders around 2011 in a small town called Bijapur in Chattisgarh (around 10 hours away from capital Raipur). The nearest district was/is Jagdalpur. Now Bijapur (and many other "small" towns) were given state of the art tertiary care hospitals with 3-4 OT setups by the government - great job indeed. BUT... the town - and all the towns surrounding it - till we reached Jagdalpur (4 hours drive away) - HAD ZERO SURGEONS and ZERO "WORKING" OTs.
We were very surprised when we saw this. Our primary setup was for pediatric and pregnant females (due to pressure from state government - a discussion for another day) - but we very a small-ish clinic with IPDs, but no OTs (it costs money !). We had to refer many breech pregnancies and other high risk pregnancies/simple surgical patients (like hernia) to Jagdalpur - 4 hours way - in critical condition.
So we decided to contract a surgeon (gem of a fella !) for taking over the local OT - and struck a deal with hospital incharge (remember, we are an INGO, taking ZERO money from patients, but paying hospital costs). All went fine for about 3 months before they shut the OTs down - citing they want to take over and we can't use them anymore. The surgeon had to be sent away.
When we dug into it - it became clear that the CMO and the surgeons in Jagdalpur were behind it. For years, they did not allow areas within 4-6 hours distance from their place to develop medically, and all surgical cases were forced to go Jagdalpur, EVEN IF IT MEANT DYING ON THE WAY (you can't imagine a breech pregnancy stuck midway, with the woman lying on all 4 hours to make sure the baby does not come out suddenly, with maybe other issues like cord around the neck etc. It's not just terrible, it's inhumane).
The greed was so huge that even now, in 2020, the OTs are non functional. There is no surgeon, and the neonatal death rates are high due to such shit practices by doctors.
I have so many anecdotes to show what human greed can do. Doesn't matter if it's 100 bucks or 100k bucks. That place, quite literally, changed my life.
Lmao, this organization continues to prove with their flip-flops that they are nothing but a joke.
6 months after thousands, possibly millions of people have been administered the drug and recovered successfully, they come out with a statement like this.
So if it isn't effective, how did all those people recover ? Did they recover due to placebo effect ?
Just like that time they flip-flopped when it comes to masks, lockdowns, HCQ and now Remdesivir. Just two days ago that clown Tedros also tweeted that even the vaccine itself won't be enough to end the casedemic.
Gilead knew that RemD DID NOT work. This was in fact known before the final EU pricing was finalized, but corporate greed my dear friend ! If you read into the history of RemD, you will realize that it is a drug in search of a disease.
So many drugs that you hear about have no basis for working in COVID since they were tested in vitro at such high concentrations that it is almost unachievable in humans - the best example being Ivermectin. All doctors prescribe it for COVID, while we have zero evidence that it works at therapeutic doses.
Doxy/Azithro/ZINC: Some evidence does exist here and there. We still need large scale trials so that the **** up with RemD is not repeated.
BUT..COVID is real. While the maximum cases will be asymptomatic, it does not rule out whosoever is dying from it. I am hella scared for my parents, who are both diabetic and hypertensive.
Just day before yesterday, my close friend's uncle and aunt - both passed away due to COVID. The children - 13 and 15 - are orphans now. Imagine that !
