BULLDOG
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You claim that the fact that so many people are evaluating that drug is reason to believe it should be used before the evaluation is complete. There might be some reason to believe that if the interest in that drug was based on the properties of the drug it's self. That is not the case. The only reason there is any interest in that drug whatsoever is the presidents insistence that it be evaluated. He forced an otherwise uncalled for evaluation, and it will be evaluated. That is more than the drug deserves on it's own. It would be even more stupid to release it for specific use when it hasn't been evaluated for that use.
Many doctors are prescribing it based on their positive experience with it. But it must not be much of a cure. It seemingly helps a lot in some cases and little or none in others. If it was helpful in any meaningful way it would have been obvious and the news would have spread quickly. The pandemic would have been stopped weeks ago in China or South Korea.
What I don't know is what is the standard treatment regime for all those that have died or recovered . Does it include other drugs that are thought to be better? Certainly no doctor would let his patients die without considering Chloroquine among many options. And every doctor would want to be hero who stopped the pandemic at his hospital by discovering that Chloroquine was a cure or close to it or at least very effective. With so many dying the opportunity to experiment is huge; yet Chloroquine is not emerging as very significant.
Of course it isn't emerging as significant in the treatment of the virus, because it isn't significant in the treatment of the virus. The only thing significant about it is that somebody convinced Trump that it is a miracle cure. There is no reason to believe it might be a miracle cure, but that doesn't matter much to Trump anyway.