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Does it even work on a Covid-19 infection?

Here's a review of one of the papers that has been causing some of the hype:

https://mobile.twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916...

My layman's understanding is that there is theory to support it and some treatment centers are trying it out, but there isn't quality evidence to suggest wide spread adoption.

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This is actually causing a severe shortage at many pharmacies and hospitals. People are rushing out and hoarding this drug, preventing us from having adequate supplies for treating the serious cases.

Do you have a citation?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-chloro...

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#15

"fever shortness of breath" filtered by metro region has been what I look at every day for more than a month now. It is a window into where community spread has been appearing (and people are googling their symptoms) and it is this weird view into the future of what will be reported in the news. Watching it spread county by county from the main cities to elsewhere in the country has been something. https://trends.goo…

Yikes Arkansas. That is not good news at all since it is one of the poorest states in the country.

Since you've been watching this search trend, do you have any insights you could summarize?

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This is actually causing a severe shortage at many pharmacies and hospitals. People are rushing out and hoarding this drug, preventing us from having adequate supplies for treating the serious cases.

Even worse, it’s leaving people with Lupus and arthritis in a position to quit the medication that’s keeping them alive/comfortable cold turkey.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-chloro...

And then you get this word salad that sounds like a forward from grandpa, early AOL era (even including all-caps): “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)”

All based on some data from a Petri dish, and a non-randomized trial where they measured “virus load” by eyeballing it: https://mobile.twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916...

This is insanity, Nero-style (only without actual style). You couldn’t kill more people if you tried.

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It's going to end up killing people. Chloroquine is nasty stuff and irresponsible to be hawking...pharmaceuticals can cause as much damage as they can prevent! There is no clinical basis and Trump continues to hawk it ultimately because he is so vested in hotels and hospitality and is more focused on financial damage control of his own investments than the health and safety of the American people.

I really don't get where this comes from. It's a generic drug that's been used for 70 years all over the world in tens of thousands of patients to treat malaria. It's already standard of care in China and South Korea where the recovery rates are high and the death rate is low.

I think your extreme Donald Trump hatred is clouding your judgement.

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This is actually causing a severe shortage at many pharmacies and hospitals. People are rushing out and hoarding this drug, preventing us from having adequate supplies for treating the serious cases.

Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.

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#19

This is actually causing a severe shortage at many pharmacies and hospitals. People are rushing out and hoarding this drug, preventing us from having adequate supplies for treating the serious cases.

Even worse, it’s leaving people with Lupus and arthritis in a position to quit the medication that’s keeping them alive/comfortable cold turkey. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-chloro... And then you get this word salad that sounds like a forward from grandpa, early AOL era (even including all-caps): “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest…

Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.

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#20

This is actually causing a severe shortage at many pharmacies and hospitals. People are rushing out and hoarding this drug, preventing us from having adequate supplies for treating the serious cases.

Isn't this a prescription controlled drug?

Yes, but many doctors aren't as ethical as they should be.
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