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by mycall 2290 days ago
Would not the influenza vaccine be better than using osetalmivir?
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These serve different purposes.

If you are already infected, a vaccine is not useful.

But regardless, there is no approved treatment for COVID.

Gilead's new antiviral looks promising, and the Chloroquine/Azithromycin combo looks promising, too, but the first isn't approved for any use yet, and the second is an uncertain off-label use, so in either case, you aren't going to get those treatments unless the alternative is likely death, if you can get them them at all.