At this point any doctor that is still saying Hydroxy needs further testing and only anecdotal evidence shows any effectiveness in my opinion has a political agenda and should not be trusted. Discouraging and thus limiting the use of this drug will kill people. One has to question what kind of doctor would discourage the use of a potentially life saving drug to further a political agenda? While we may not know exactly how effective this drug is at fighting this virus we know for sure there is little danger in its use given the lethality of the virus. There is also little doubt it has significantly helped if not outright saved many people.
But Trump’s mutual fund holding has $9 invested in Hydroxy’s producer. Follow the money!/s
However, unless HCQ is proven to work (at least in the overwhelming majority of cases); it is no substitute for the social distancing we're enduring now. That would be very risky, and highly unethical. Suppose it turns out that it only works for (say) 80% of the population. If we abandon social distancing and allow wide-spread infections; millions of people could die unnecessarily. The risk is too high to take that chance.
The clinical trials will produce preliminary results by August. That's at least a year sooner than a vaccine could be developed. If the trials prove HCQ works, then everything could return to normal right away.
“””At this point any doctor that is still saying Hydroxy needs further testing and only anecdotal evidence shows any effectiveness in my opinion has a political agenda and should not be trusted.”””
At this point Fauci owns the fact that he has generally stood in the way of hydroxychloroquine being used by insisting on double blind, random testing.
At this point Fauci owns the model predicting 200,000 deaths.
At the end of the day, when this covid infection finally settles down, Fauci will look like a bumbling idiot who was unable to think outside of the box and Trump will come out smelling likie a rose and look like a really smart guy.
Trump fully understands the gross incompetence among government employees. For him to eventually clean house in the government he needs to let these hapless bureaucrats show their incompetency to the world.