If you're going to rush a vaccine onto the market, you have to skip the safety trials. The only legal way to do that is an Emergency Use Authorization, and the rule is clear. The FDA can only grant one when there's no adequate approved and available alternative. Without that, a vaccine has to go through a multi-year safety trial like everything else.

Hydroxychloroquine already existed as that alternative. A Henry Ford Health study of 2,541 hospitalized COVID patients found 13 percent treated with hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 26 percent of those who weren't given it. A 50 percent reduction in death, and they knew it.

Millions of people around the world were already using hydroxychloroquine safely. It's one of the safest drugs on earth, second only to ivermectin, and every heart concern raised about it had already been studied with the original chloroquine, which hydroxychloroquine was developed to solve. An adequate, approved, available alternative existed the entire time.

@delbigtree