[mmichaels1970]

“We are not using it in outpatients, we're not using it in patients with mild infection, we are using it, however, in patients that are sick enough to be hospitalized with pneumonia that we feel are at risk of progressing their infection.”

That’s a good step. Would be a shame though if you end up needing to admit those outpatients in a few days when a few pills may have kept the bed open for somebody else.

[Norseman]

>>Would be a shame though if you end up needing to admit those outpatients in a few days ...<<

Exactly, and you can add to that the fact that it would be a shame if early usage of HCQ would enable us to restart the country again, but no one decided to try that.

My view: Just start treating early and if it results in a lot less hospitalizations, let people get back to work and treat them as soon as they show symptoms. Heart patients and the elderly can continue to self-isolate until most people have developed immunity. Otherwise, the additional suicides over the next year or two are going to outnumber the deaths from the virus. People need to get back to work or soon there won’t be a job to go back to.