Doctors, oddly enough, want proof you have a disease before they give you a prescription for treating it.
They have an aversion to being sued.
And insurance companies have an aversion to paying for unnecessary medical procedures.
The limitations come from test access and simply waiting too long for a result.
Right now, in my state, it’s difficult to get a test if you’re not already symptomatic. At that point you’ve already lost a couple days of HCQ being effective.
It’s like this all over the south right now. At least a week to wait for results, sometimes closer to two weeks.
By that time you’re either over it or on O2 in a hospital.
Until this gets like the flu...go to MD, get swabbed, get result in less than 30 minutes, get scrip, fill scrip, go home...HCQ discussions are essentially meaningless theory for those of us in hot spots.
And in this red state, I’ve heard of no one that will give a scrip for HCQ. We’ve asked around to every medico we know too.
Docs DO tell positives to take pepcid and zyrtec though.
This is not entirely accurate. Doctors do not need proof to prescribe a drug. That is their call and in this case where taking HCQ has little to no risk yet delaying treatment could result in death I think doctors would be prescribing this drug in many many cases. I have been given tami flu without results of a flu test. This was based purely on the fact my son had flu and I then had symptoms. Doctors can and would certainly do this with covid under the same circumstances. IMO, if you have symptoms and suspect covid find a doctor that will prescribe this cocktail.
That being said I do not think it's the doctors that are waiting for positive results. I think they are being pressured very heavily to NOT prescribe HCQ and are also being told the drug is unavailable. In these instances arrests need to be made. If hospital management is pressuring doctors to not prescribe this drug they need to be arrested. If this drug is being withheld when there is no shortage by hospitals or anywhere else in the supply chain those making these decisions should be arrested.
Enough lies. Anyone caught deliberately limiting access to these drugs or pressuring doctors to not use them need to be held accountable.
IMO, if you are being denied access to this drug after a doctor is willing to prescribe it contact a lawyer and the district attorney immediately. These acts in my opinion are clearly criminal in nature.