Enjoy your quarantine listening while you can

Sadly because there is no definitive treatment for SARS Covid-19 we are reaching for straws. The study quoted had too few patients to be statistically significant. HCQ does show antiviral activity for HIV when combined with other specific anti-HIV drugs. HCQ is not benign. There are dose related effects and for doses greater than 400 mg daily the side effects are significant including possible permanent blindness. The trials will take many weeks and it’s difficult to design trials for mildly symptomatic patients. The Chinese physicians found no difference in ICU admission or mortality but HCQ was added late in the course. For now, hold your horses. 
P.S.  I just retired from 37 years of medicine with direct patient contact and the last 28 years were Emergency Medicine. 

mahgister
FDA just approve chloroquine use, and Bayer offer to send it...

>>>>>Are you sure? I watched the noon briefing by Trump et al and he misspoke, the drug is not immediately available but currently under study by FDA. The head of FDA the former cancer doctor indicated it would not (rpt not) be ready immediately and that FDA would be thorough and careful. Did FDA approve it only six hours later? Not bloody likely! Nobody would trust that. Hel-loo!

Yes it was too few which is why the French doctors said it needed further testing they said they released the results because of the urgency 

"Who cares about China?"

A billion, or two.

Is this Facebook now? Really... Wow.