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None of the legitimacy ascribed to HCQ compares to the legitimacy of the vaccine. The only reason HCQ rose to prominence was because of COVID denialism, not be
by x86_64Ubuntu 4y ago
None of the legitimacy ascribed to HCQ compares to the legitimacy of the vaccine. The only reason HCQ rose to prominence was because of COVID denialism, not because of actual scientific or therapeutic concerns as a reasonable alternative to the vaccine.
- remote_phone 4y agoFalse. We didn’t have a vaccine available until early 2021. People were scrambling to find a therapeutic way to treat Covid and there was anecdotal evidence that hcq and ivermectin might work. They wanted large scale trials but they were unscientifically denied which made people very suspicious about the reasons why. Yes, they turned out to be ineffective but the reaction against them was mindblowingly biased and filled with propaganda.
- 312c 4y ago> They wanted large scale trials but they were unscientifically denied which made people very suspicious about the reasons why. False. There was an large scale international trial and it showed that HCQ did little to nothing to treat covid. https://www.who.int/news/item/04-07-2020-who-discontinues-hydroxychloroquine-and-lopinavir-ritonavir-treatment-arms-for-covid-19 https://www.who.int/news/item/04-07-2020-who-discontinues-hy...