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1. Not for coronaviruses. 2. They are known but they are by no means mild. A trial in Brazil just got aborted due to severe heart problems. 3. So does almost
by DangerousPie 7y ago
1. Not for coronaviruses.
2. They are known but they are by no means mild. A trial in Brazil just got aborted due to severe heart problems.
3. So does almost everything. If that's your threshold for taking a drug then I have a lot of homeopathic remedies to sell you!
4. Actually the doses given for COVID are often higher. Not sure what long-term has to do with anything.
5. That assumes that the risk of side effects is zero. It's not. Also, there is an opportunity cost to taking HCQ instead of something else.
I totally agree with you that we should do proper trials on this and see what happens. But right now there is zero evidence that it actually works, and some (admittedly low-quality) evidence that it might not.
- ddebernardy 7y ago> Actually the doses given for COVID are often higher. Not just higher. The original article (the one out of China) that mentioned that there might be some positive effects reportedly suggested using doses that were a whopping 5 times higher than the usually prescribed amounts: 500mg/day vs the usual 100mg/day. What more, the same article put forward that the drug was considered generally safe and without any potentially troublesome side effects. That raised more than a few eyebrows amongst the medical staff who knew the drug.