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> 1. Yes, the COVID treatments we're using today are vaccines.

There were efforts to figure out how to treat SARS-CoV-2 with existing safe medications, but these efforts were suppressed.

In the early days Dr. Zelenko treated his obviously-COVID patients with hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and azithromycin. His logic was ‘why let the patient deteriorate while we wait for the test to come back, when we can just start treating now?’ Most of his patients made a full recovery.

Eventually some scam-treatments got approved - remdesivir (“run, death is near”) and… paxlovid were two ineffective treatments.



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