The FDA, faced with the choice of continuing to see people die, or actually try to treat them, have approved the widespread use of hydroxychloroquine and quinine for seriously ill COVID-19 patients.
Millions of doses are being distributed across the US, and doctors are already prescribing it for thousands of patients, and taking it themselves. Several clinical trials are underway involving thousands of patients.
But sure what would those dumb fucks at the FDA know, when we have a medical expert at TFK they should be listening to.
Yes, Fauci is brilliant. All he is saying is that hydroxychloroquine is not approved by the FDA for COVID-19. That would take six months or longer, after clinical trials are complete. Doctors have been prescribing it because there is no approved treatment for COVID-19, and there is some evidence it helps lessen symptoms. It’s a well known drug with minor side effects, so the thinking is the potential benefits outweigh the alternative (death).
Trump hardly came up with the idea himself ffs, even though he will give himself credit obviously.
Can someone ladybird the piece from America about the virus. I only caught the end of it with the health care worker almost in tears saying it was a shambles.
Sorry, don’t get to see RTE unfortunately. There’s a lot of concern alright about nurses and doctors getting infected, and whether individual hospitals have enough PPE. From what I have heard nobody should be near a patient during intubation without the full hazmat outfit, otherwise you are almost certain to get infected.
I read that early in the Italian story, when they are doing the intubation the vapour rises up and pretty much contaminated everything in a fairly wide radius
Are you arguing against doctors who are prescribing it to try and save lives?
You do understand there are no approved treatments, yes? And that several existing drugs are being tried?
How many deaths are acceptable while we wait for “good” evidence?
A very unusual position.
I suppose if you are interested in saving your own life and responsible for saving others, that’s the only peer review that counts at present.
The issue people have with this is Trump mentioned it. Look it’s quite simple to these simpletons. The entire population of Spain could die of this disease, all 46.7 million of them, but blame could never be attached to Pedro Sanchez as he is a socialist. If 330,000 died in the US, or 66,000 in the UK, 0.1% of their respective populations, then obviously Trump and Boris murdered all of them.
It’s a strange business. Lads suddenly attaching great importance to peer review, clinical trials etc. All fine and well I suppose, but it’s almost as if they’re willing the death toll to rise…just so they could say I told you so.
Deadly men altogether.
