05-19-2020, 09:07 PM
(05-19-2020, 07:51 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Right, the results are inconclusive as to weather it has any effect or if improvements were just coincidental. Still, no reason for ridicule and outrage over the POTUS embracing the idea that it may work.
He is taking it prophylactically. The results aren’t inconclusive. The isn’t any evidence to support hydroxychloroquine’s use as a prophylaxis to prevent Covid-19. Right now the evidence doesn’t indicate it’s any more effective than taking a tic tac to prevent Covid-19.
Additionally, it has known adverse effects like fatal arrhythmias that can occur in anyone who takes it and there is no way to predict when it might happen.
So the risk benefit analysis involves weighing the risk of fatal arrhythmias vs. no benefit as a prophylaxis. That decision is a no brainer; don’t prescribe something that could kill the patient when it isn’t proven to provide any benefit.
Any provider who would do that is a total quack. The type of provider all the other providers think is a total idiot.
Plus he keeps pushing an unproven treatment against medical advice. Repeatedly. At this point he absolutely deserves ridicule.