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It's front page on the Washington Post right now. I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards cro
by jberryman 6y ago
It's front page on the Washington Post right now.
I haven't been on HN regularly in years; is promotion by the HN and silicon valley dabblers-and-blowhards crowd the reason the drug (one of dozens being tried) become so talked about? Did Elon Musk spend an hour browsing the preprints and tweet it to the world or something? I'm confused
- javagram 6y agoTrump promoted it in a press conference, which prompted world-wide interest. Elon Musk also promoted it https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1239650597906898947?s=20 Background: * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/health/trump-hydroxychlor... “ Trump Calls This Drug a ‘Game Changer.’ Doctors Aren’t So Sure: The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political litmus test. But doctors on the front lines of coronavirus say it’s just another tool in desperate times.” * https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chlo... “ Prescriptions Surged as Trump Praised Drugs in Coronavirus Fight: Prescriptions for two antimalarial drugs jumped by 46 times the average when the president promoted them on TV. There’s no proof they work against Covid-19.”