[logifail]

> why aren't we pursuing early outpatient treatment with combinations of existing over the counter medicines

Doesn't this come back (yet again) to the financial incentives?

Go to FDA.gov and read up on "Emergency Use Authorization"[0]:

> FDA may authorize unapproved medical products or unapproved uses of approved medical products to be used in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions caused by CBRN threat agents when certain criteria are met, including there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives.

If it were to turn out that an existing (possibly cheap? maybe even a generic? ) over-the-counter medicine is a good treatment for C19 then that would undercut the business plans of Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and co.

Asking "cui bono" has never been more appropriate.

[0] https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-...

[mrhands69]

You're making too much sense; someone is going to call you a conspiracy theorist.