If you look at the world distribution of virus cases, there are very few in Africa, where malaria drugs have been used for many years.
Yes, I too thought that examining that demographic would be a good indicator of the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic.
“...there are very few in Africa, where malaria drugs have been used for many years..”
Excellent add-on to the excellent thread topic.
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>>If you look at the world distribution of virus cases, there are very few in Africa, where malaria drugs have been used for many years.<<
I thought that too, at first, but apparently chloroquine isn’t effective against malaria any longer as the disease has mutated since it was developed.
It wouldn’t hurt, though to find out whether it’s still generally taken, especially in Africa and in India. India, especially, had a very slow start to their Wuhan Flu cases, possibly due to lack of testing?