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So title is silly. They explained the drug builds up in the body and lasts ~40 days. Kaiser goes on to explain why it's necessary, steps to take if you start fe

So title is silly. They explained the drug builds up in the body and lasts ~40 days. Kaiser goes on to explain why it's necessary, steps to take if you start feeling worse, and that it's only expected to be temporary. I really don't see the problem here. If you really can go 40 days then why not let people that critically need it have access?

stillbourne 7y ago
Because the evidence that it is effective against Corvid-19 is shaky as best.
braindouche 7y ago
The problem is that the drug doesn't stay at an effective level in the body for 40 days (it also takes more than a month for the drug to take effect), and the consequences of allowing lupus to flair include accumulating permanent damage to, for example, heart, lungs, kidneys and joints. Additionally, there's no good information yet on how an immunocompromised patient in a flair will react to coronavirus infection, beyond the general notion from our rheumatologist that putting your malfunctioning immune system into a state of dysfunction and then getting the virus that puts your immune system into a state of dysfunction is probably really bad. source: my partner has rheumatoid arthritis and takes hydroxychloroquine, and we've been concerned about exactly this sort of thing happening for a while now.