Just leaving this here:
AYUSH 64 is an old formulation that was first tried in malaria and failed to show benefit compared to standard treatment. It was commercialised in 2014 by selling rights to Dabur and is being heavily promoted without any scientific evidence.. https://twitter.com/moayush/status/1390374085276823553
Abstract for the phase 2 trial in patients with Vivax malaria. No subsequent larger trials done..
Reason why it's being repurposed for covid-19?
Simple: Helpless ministers don't have any idea what to do. They failed to arrange hospital beds or oxygen or ventilators or health capacity, so what else is left? You got it: promote pseudoscience BS.
Disdain for science, nay, the utter contempt for science is what got us here in the first place and it is clear that lack of scientific temperament in the current administration means many more lives will be lost while they promote this quackery!
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