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It's so sad...just produce more, the manufacturing cost per dose is pennies. It's generic, therefore india etc..can make it freely, unlike the new patented treatments which cost nearly a thousand dollars each course iirc.Looked up then why it got its Nobel prize in particular.
"William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura discovered a new drug, Avermectin, the derivatives of which have radically lowered the incidence of River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, as well as showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases."
It doesn't say "coronavirus related diseases". It clearly got its Nobel prize for different reasons.
I don't have issues at all with drugs being tested and researched for other reasons. But in this instance there's quacks all around the world selling this drug for 10-100x the price of what they paid for it, just making a quick buck because they know there's demand for it in particular circles. Meanwhile there's people and animals who need this drug and can't get it because it's sold out...
Nobody said it got the prize for covid, that point was to demonstrate it's a slightly more important drug to the world of medicine than as a horse dewormer.