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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
A quick skim of the article does not show any quote stating you should self medicate. There are quotes misrepresenting which stage of approval it is in.
Verbatim quote from the President: "if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody." Edit: Yes, I realize what he probably meant . I know how meds work. I still think he should have chosen his wording more carefully.
This news story is about a man consuming fish tank additive: https://aquariumstoredepot.com/products/chloroquine-phosphat...
I'm not sure the difference between this and the dosages and chemical makeup of the actual drug being touted by Trump but I imagine anyone with a lick of sense would avoid consuming chemicals designed for fish tanks.
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#133A bit more info: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/man-dies-after-in... Also happening in Nigeria: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/23/headlines/two_nigeria... Note that there doesn't appear to be any evidence yet that chloroquine is effective in COVID-19 treatment. So far it has been studied only for other types of coronavirus.
>Note that there doesn't appear to be any evidence yet that chloroquine is effective in COVID-19 treatment. So far it has been studied only for other types of coronavirus.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32173110
That's incorrect.
I don't know how these people died from taking chloroquine phosphate, it is quite safe when taken in normal dosages. What they had may have been contaminated (since it seems to be for aquariums!) or they took wildly more than needed. People with rheumatoid arthritis take chloroquine phosphate for years at a time.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Acetaminophen is also easy to overdose and has been recommended as a fever reducer for Coronavirus.
Who is recommending acetaminophen for coronavirus fever reduction? Provide a source.
Everyone. E.g. France:
https://www.livescience.com/ibuprofen-coronavirus-symptoms.h...
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Acetaminophen is also easy to overdose and has been recommended as a fever reducer for Coronavirus.
Who is recommending acetaminophen for coronavirus fever reduction? Provide a source.
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#136The repeated recommendation to use a drug which has not been properly tested by the president of the most powerful nation on this planet seems inappropriate to me.
We all made fun of South Africa's Thabo Mbeki when he recommended beetroot, garlic and other herbs to combat HIV. Turns out, we have no reason. It did happen here, on primetime TV.
it's prescription only. no one told them to self-medicate.
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#138The repeated recommendation to use a drug which has not been properly tested by the president of the most powerful nation on this planet seems inappropriate to me.
Do you have an exact quote from the president where he recommends that the public obtain and self medicate with chloroquine? Or have you significantly altered his statements for your own political agenda?
Here’s one example of him advising that it might be useful: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fauci-throws-cold-water-trum...
And yeah, his language is imprecise enough that you could pick it apart and find a reasonable motivation behind it if you looked hard enough. But even a really charitable reading can only upgrade his remarks from “flagrantly dangerous” to “unnecessary and not very helpful”, and we should expect more from the president than that.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
The FDA has not approved it as a prescription drug for Covid-19. It's approved for malaria.
That's not really relevant. A physician can lawfully prescribe it today for COVID-19 despite not being FDA approved for that indication because it's approved for other indications. This is called off-label use. What FDA approval for treating COVID-19 would mean is that the drug could be marketed for such use. In a pandemic, I don't think that's a major consideration.
It absolutely is relevant. A layperson will hear "chloroquine works on Covid-19. The FDA's approved it. The President himself said so."
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
A quick skim of the article does not show any quote stating you should self medicate. There are quotes misrepresenting which stage of approval it is in.
Verbatim quote from the President: "if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody." Edit: Yes, I realize what he probably meant . I know how meds work. I still think he should have chosen his wording more carefully.
Advil is one of the safest drugs to take, but you can still kill yourself with it.