Is there a conspiracy against Covid treatments?

BEFORE anything else, a couple of corrections on our October 16 column. In editing the following facts were obscured: This writer was moderator of future Justice secretary Crispin "Boying" Remulla's third year Ateneo High School class, and the latter was class president. And Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was no longer president in 2011 when she was detained for eight months over election fraud accusations later dismissed in court.

Turning to the headline question, it's rhetorical, not accusing. One is just puzzled that through the pandemic years, even after at least three remedies for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) were approved by the United States or Europe, medical authorities at the Department of Health (DoH), the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and other entities addressing the contagion have said little about Covid-19 treatments proven to prevent deaths.