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Here's a nice document: https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2020/03/27/14/00/ventricular-arrhythmia-risk-due-to-hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-tr
by DanBC 7y ago
Here's a nice document: https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2020/03/27/14/00/ventricular-arrhythmia-risk-due-to-hydroxychloroquine-azithromycin-treatment-for-covid-19 https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2020/03/27...
It talks about the hopefulness of this treatment, but also asks for better quality research to happen, and warns against blanket use of an experimental treatment especially in a group of patients that includes people who were often pretty ill even without covid-19.
> Basically that I know multiple people who take this drug for various reasons. And the claim of it being some dangerous drug doesn’t seem consistent with their experience.
With any medication we do a balancing exercise. "Do the risks of taking the meds outweigh the harm I experience from not taking the meds?" (One of the most important questions you can ask your doctor is "What happens if we do nothing?")
We don't really know what that balance is with covid-19 yet, and the only way we find out is by running good quality science.
(Downvoting on HN is currently pretty weird. I upvoted you.)