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Originally Posted by saphojunkie
I'm not overly worried about that, given two facts:
1. It's easily produced in generic form by multiple US companies.
2. By its nature, if it works, then it works to help prevent the virus from taking hold. So, while it's better to have the truly sick the first ones to receive the medication, having general populations armed with it in case of exposure/infection is not the worst thing in the world.
I imagine there's going to be a LOT of this drug produced in the next few weeks. If the French numbers are in any way accurate (90% tested negative after 6 days), then this drug would impede the over-running of medical facilities, which is what we are REALLY after.
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Yeah but this just sounds like a bunch of assholes are stockpiling it. It needs to be available TODAY to people who actually need it, not sitting on top of the doomsday stash of a plastic surgeon.