No, we don’t know it works. We have anecdotes. Thalidomide comes to mind. If it works 100% there should be no one among the dead who was taking it. If there is then it ain’t 100% right there.
You're just here to disrupt it.
The point is that you put down your $20-$50 on the 5-day hydroxychloroquine/Z-Pak regimen if you have the symptoms, and you takes your chances.
Otherwise, let Dr Fumblefingers hydrate you while you're drowning in your own snot.
Quit being a jerk.
Who’s claiming 100%?
Thalidomide isn't a known anti-malarial, jerk.
“No, we don’t know it works. We have anecdotes. Thalidomide comes to mind....”
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Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955. I strongly suspect that broad use over the past 65 years would have revealed whether it can cause birth defects.
But nice try.
I am 61 and definitely not pregnant. The analogy is not a good one.
Probably every US soldier in Nam took them. I know two of my friends did.
I took them when I was 13-14 living in South America, and again when I was 18 back in the States. Chloroquine (the first time) gave me an upset stomach. HydroxyChloroquine (the second) did not.
I’m now 71. So far, so good
Plus both of these drugs are regularly prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Take them or don’t take them. But you’ll die from virus before you die from these drugs.
Thalidomide was a new drug. Hydroxychloroqine is not.
I was right. You haven't been paying attention. At all.
Yours is a RIDICULOUS statement.
Thalidomide was discovered by professionals at the German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal (now Grünenthal GmbH) circa 1953. The company had been established as a soap maker after World War II ended, to address the urgent market need for antibiotics. Heinrich Mueckter, who was a known Nazi war criminal,[29] was appointed to head the discovery program based on his experience working with the German army's antiviral research. While preparing reagents for the work, Mueckter's assistant Wilhelm Kunz isolated a by-product that was recognized by pharmacologist Herbert Keller as an analog of glutethimide, a sedative. The medicinal chemistry work turned to improving the lead compound into a suitable drug: the result was thalidomide. The toxicity was examined in several animals, and the drug was introduced in 1956 as a sedative; it was never tested on pregnant women.[30]As that weird angry girl said, "how dare you."