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Honestly, if this were not linked so tightly at this point to a certain U.S. politician, then I doubt that it would receive much media attention at all. And it

Honestly, if this were not linked so tightly at this point to a certain U.S. politician, then I doubt that it would receive much media attention at all. And it would probably be the sort of thing that HN and Reddit would view favorably.

adrr 7y ago
It would be same as Remdesivir, nitric oxide, and favipiravir. They all have clinical trials going on and anecdotal evidence of efficacy . Most people have never heard of any of these treatments. Like most drug trials, they will probably show a limited or no improvement over the control group. We can get our hopes up, but we should be planning that there will be no effective and/or viable treatment deployed before a vaccine is released.
- 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
  The difference of course is that HCQ is part of the existing treatment plan of SK, France, and other countries. At the very least we’ll have a large sample size in the next few months.
  - vonmoltke 7y ago
    So far, the results are not looking good: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/miracle-cure-testimonials-aside-azithromycin-and-hydroxychloroquine-probably-do-not-work-against-covid-19/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/miracle-cure-testimonials-a...