> When you're dealing with a new disease there are no best practices for treatment. That doesn't give you carte blanche to claim that your drug does wonderful

> When you're dealing with a new disease there are no best practices for treatment. That doesn't give you carte blanche to claim that your drug does wonderful things for condition X when the evidence supporting your claim is non-existent, extremely weak, or obviously fraudulent. > That's why doctors have to use their best judgement and try different things and write down what seems to work and what doesn't. Which is completely different to POTUS recommending HCQ because he or his friends have financial interest in a company that makes that drug. It's also extremely negligent to try popularising a particular drug which is already in short supply and needed by people with existing life-threatening conditions. If something looks promising, you finance some trials to provide more certainty, and then you look at ways to ramp up production because you know demand is going to increase.