Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the plan to develop at-home treatments at a Downing Street press conference tonight, when he said science is helping the UK get back to normal
Boris Johnson today said he will assemble a team of scientists to find ways for people to recover from the virus without going into hospital because the UK must 'learn to live with this disease, as we live with other diseases'.
No drugs have been decided on but the government is already in talks with pharmaceutical firms about 'promising' antiviral treatments being developed, and officials are keen to get new drugs that aren't already used.
Comment: Note that there are already protocols that are extremely effective at treating issues caused by coronavirus, and that have been known about since the beginning of the lockdowns. They're also inexpensive and have decades of safety data; unlike the proposed medications and the current mass vaccine program.
However, using them would mean that pharmaceutical companies could lose out on billions in potential profits, and that governments would have to admit that there have been treatments for coronavirus, that it knew about, for the last year that it locked down the country:
Comment: See also: Compelling Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 Was Man-Made