One last point on meds for the night, anons: watch the drugs that have been or are being recalled/on shortage.

Some examples:

H2RA blockers like cimetidine, famotidine, ranitidine, usually used for acid reflux. They also work as immunomodulators to rev up antiviral cells. Podiatrists have been using high dose cimetidine off-label for warts (caused by a virus), etc., for a long time; it works. Ranitidine has been recalled both Rx and OTC.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-announces-voluntary-recall-sandoz-ranitidine-capsules-following-detection-impurity

Angiotensin receptor blockers (or ARBs) like valsartan and losartan, which may have been helpful against Covid, also recalled & on major shortage. The studies to look at ARBs in Covid are underway, but it won't matter if we don't have the drugs on the shelf.

https://www.drugwatch.com/valsartan/recalls/#:~:text=Valsartan%20Recalls,N-nitrosodimethylamine%2C%20or%20NDMA.

These are not new drugs. These are older drugs with generics and OTC versions (for the acid reducers). [Disclaimer: not saying these are cures by any stretch.]

Multiple ARBs have been on massive recall/shortage for a year. There's a hot debate over using blood pressure meds or not in Covid since they work on the same receptor/system that Covid binds to, but some are adamant that ARBs may be protective from Covid.

High BP & stroke are both heavily tied to Covid clinically, and hypertension is a big risk factor for stroke. I'd love to see aggregate data of how many patients who were listed Covid+ and had HTN were also NOT on their BP meds or were changed to something else due to the recalls.

I was on the boards the other night when metformin, used for diabetes, was shown to have antibiotic possibilities and it was just recalled as well.

Things that make you go, "Hmmm…" on the frontlines. Based medicine evidence-based medicine.

Q & Q+, fellow patriots, thank you from the medical trenches. Stay well.

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