The lead article in the New York Times this morning is on how the race for a vaccine in the U.S. (Operation Warp Speed) came at the expense of drugs, anti-virals such as remdesivir, steroidal therapies like dexamethasone, which, although not providing immunity, still were very effective in mitigating the effects of COVID-19. The focus on vaccines led to production in record time, but time, it took time, and now that the vaccines are available the virus mutated into variants that made the vaccines less effective.

I am looking for one goddamn thing the Bidens could do now to get the numbers down and I thought these drugs might be that something. No: The acting FDA director told the Times, in the next couple of months the government plans to start large and well-organized trials for existing drugs that could be repurposed to fight Covid-19.

Still looking. Joe, why don't you get, say, your six leading government COVID experts together in a conference room and tell them, "I want to know right now the one thing each of you would do to get the Deaths numbers down today."