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Aytu BioPharma is a small company bringing UV light into the body, and the early trials on COVID last year showed it worked. The same was true for Hydroxychloro

• phatfish 5y ago
  Hydroxychloroquine has a mountain of side effects worse than COVID for most people, and very little (if any) positive effect. Maybe UV could help in some way, but was this ever going to be a real solution? I highly doubt Aytu BioPharma was in a position to deliver anything meaningful at the volume and time-scale required. Trump simply had no clue what a workable solution looked like. He broadcast to the world as the American President the ideas of the most recent crazy to have his ear (or one that he read on Twitter), and then got a bruised ego and doubled down when shown his ideas were worthless. No propaganda there.
  • SnowProblem 5y ago
    The side effects of HCQ were very overstated. The first study [1] that was pushed by the media to discredit Trump saying HCQ might be dangerous to the heart was later retracted [2] because the authors refused to share its data. The best metaanalysis today shows HCQ works to treat COVID if used early and is safe at the right doses [3]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/malaria-drug-trump-coronavirus.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/malaria-drug-trump... [2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... [3] https://hcqmeta.com/ https://hcqmeta.com/