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The 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.
I'd be really interested in more robust sources on this. But from the bits I've seen so far, this drug doesn't have as much distance between the effective dose and the lethal dose as you'd like for something that people are likely to self-administer now.
The 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.
But still, let this be a lesson to those who would follow bad leaders to their own demise; or rather, let it be a lesson to their offspring who watch them follow the bad leaders.
I suspect humanity follows cycles of enlightenment, complacency, and self-destruction (or irrelevance, which is equally damning depending on the individual). We appear to be between stage 2 and 3 at this point.
@realdonaldtrump 7:13 AM - 21 Mar 2020
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).....
....be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE! @US_FDA @SteveFDA @CDCgov @DHSgov
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/12413672399007785...
The 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.
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.
Chloroquine is safe when administered by a doctor. It's also easy to overdose if you don't know what you're doing. I'd hate to see people spread information about how dangerous Chloroquine is when it may be very useful treatment during this pandemic.