The Profit Motive is perhaps the worst enemy in fighting the Coronavirus.

1) This morning I again saw a doctor on CNN question the safety of chloroquine. But a billion people living in lands where malaria is endemic have taken it. Chloroquine is a life saver. It has prevented millions of death. It’s been taken by tens of millions on a weekly basis for prevention, I for one, or daily if afflicted with malaria. So what the hell is the safety issue?

2) Testing its efficacy on inhibiting viral growth in ciliated tracheal and nasogastric/pharyngeal cell cultures should have been completed long ago.

3) Large representative samples of the population should have already been tested with simple serum antibody precipitation test for IgG or IgM and similar swab tests for IgA(the secretory antibody) using the isolated Spike protein from the virus as antigen. This is the only way to really estimate the real % of the population infected and the real morbidity/mortality rate of COViD19. But instead an expensive RT/PRC test was being done and only for people with symptoms which can never give us these answers.

4) A vaccine using the receptor site protein of the virus in an appropriate adjuvant should have already been tested on animals and human trials in progress.

I say these things with confidence because I did those procedures since 1978 with a new virus I isolated in the viral family Retroviridae with the rudimentary technology available then. Isolation of the virus, experimental infection of laboratory animals, production of antisera, conjugation of antibodies with FITC to illuminate the virus, and immunodiffusion tests on large numbers of sera to see how endemic it was. So i am totally perplexed why such steps have not yet been accomplished 43 years later with this virus.

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