Comment Re:Is this the right treatment to be pursuing? (Score 0) 284
Hydroxychloroquine might be a critical part of the treatment for COVID-19, or it might not.
The problem is that Trump's obsession with it means that a disproportionate number of resources are being focused on this one drug. Even if it's effective they may end up overlooking treatments that were more effective because this is the one getting the big push.
There's a reason that leaders try to coordinate the big things (like disaster relief) and leave the technical details (drug cocktails) to the experts. The US President seems to have things backwards, he's busy playing doctor while the medical supply chain falls into chaos.
Let me guess, you aren't a doctor and have no clue how medicine works. See, there are people called doctors that decide the best course of treatment for a patient, and then they treat them. Pretty simple to understand, right? Anyway, Trump isn't a doctor and doesn't actually prescribe medications to anybody. The medical supply chain isn't falling into chaos, that's just your ignorance showing. We can cure that. It isn't in chaos. If you want to be absolutely certain, read a report of the state of the supply chain, how it's functioning and how it presently is deviating from norms. And high quality doctors already know how to effectively treat covid-19 and are doing so today. It's rather trivial for them. The data is out there, exactly what to do, what to prescribe and why, compete with expected outcomes are available. The can do this regardless of your believe system, your ignorance and the level of Fake News that circulates. These things don't have any impact on how effective they are and their ability to so treat covid-19. Now, you might be skeptical. This is trivial to cure, ask your doctor, one that you trust, if a loved one had 3 risk factors from dying from covid-19, how would they treat them. Let us know what you find. Ask, what are the odds that they can save their life, if they intervene in the first 2 days of a 99+ temperature? Ask then how many lives they have already saved. If they say zero, you want to be very careful and like want to ask for a referral for a doctor that actually has experience with covid-19. Not all will.