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There is a national shortage of hydroxychloroquine because doctors are doing exactly what Bleeding Red wants... they're prescribing it broadly and without consideration.
Now, I'm all for getting the drug out, but not at the expense of the people whose pre-existing conditions HAVE been clinically proven to need HCQ for treatment. regardless, keeping tabs on its effectiveness this week is pointless.
You won't know anything until Tuesday. That's one week - the full time for suggested treatment - in NYC. That's when we'll really know if this is working. Unofficially, we'll start getting a lot more anecdotal evidence, but no one's gonna feel better until you have a large scale, double blind trial.
I want it to work. I was reading the Stanford report and the French trial papers before the President ever uttered its name. My opinions on the orange man are widely known here, but for once he and I are in lock-step: I WANT HCQ TO WORK.
My friend is covid-19 positive, and another friend gave her HCQ. It was her personal prescription for auto-immune disease.
I delivered it to her doorstep on Saturday. It's day five, and her fever is gone, her cough is better, her fatigue remains. She was also prescribed the Z-pack but hasn't gotten it yet. Anyway, HCQ seems to be working, as her fever had spiked the day she got the medicine and has now gone away and stayed away.
The point is, it seems to work, but we have to know for sure.
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