> A healthy person taking a reasonable dose as a malaria countermeasure is not the same as a person on a ventilator in the ICU. Well I don’t think a person on

> A healthy person taking a reasonable dose as a malaria countermeasure is not the same as a person on a ventilator in the ICU. Well I don’t think a person on a ventilator is in any position to self medicate, a doctor who presumably knows what they’re doing would be the one to direct the course of treatment. What’s the problem with that? There’s literally no “established” treatment for Covid 19 other than “hope we can keep you alive long enough for your immune system to beat it”, so under a doctor’s care I really don’t think there’s a lot of downside to trying to establish the efficacy of certain drugs in lieu of a long trial process.