IN-DEPTH: The $5 COVID-19 Treatment That Could Have Helped Save Thousands of Lives

Clinical immunologist on an effective treatment for COVID-19 that health authorities ignored

Health care workers tend to a patient with COVID-19 in Apple Valley, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2021. Ariana Drehsler/AFP/Getty Images

If the authorities had heeded advice from those with the most profound knowledge of the mechanics of COVID-19, the pandemic could have been handled more adeptly, according to an immunologist who is one of perhaps a few hundred in the world with that specific expertise.

Instead, he said, his and others’ voices were silenced.