Ted Lieu on twitter: Swedish Hospitals Scrap Trial of Malaria Drug - Side Effects.

[Grasswire2]

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[Ilsa]

1. The anecdotes from people claiming it

cured them were probably already about to turn the corner and recover.

[babylonsister]

2. I just read on the FL local news there are 1M doses here, just

waiting to be used.

[CatMor]

3. Year's ago when I would drink gin and tonic (quinine) ...

I would have blinding headaches. It finally dawned on me the tonic was doing it.

[emmaverybo]

4. Its benefits may depend On stage of illness, condition--cytoskine storm or not-- accompanied by

anti-biotic or not. Since this drug has been helpful with RA and lupus ( often lupus patients have RA) might be most helpful in calming inflammatory response that can kill, but not in dropping viral load or dealing with the other symptoms.

With anti-biotic, can incur cardiac problems.

[Rebl2]

9. Took this

for years for RA. Had to stop it because it caused eye damage. Caught it in time so didn’t go blind from it, which can happen if you aren’t followed closely by an eye dr. Also can cause liver problems. This can be a dangerous drug if you aren’t followed carefully by your doctor and eye dr.

[yourmovemonkey]

13. I took it for RA also, but only lasted about 2 months

The headaches were crippling. I've never had headaches like that before or since. Doctor took me off of it right away.

[Rstrstx]

12. It's starting to look like it's no miracle cure for the critically ill, but may help people early

I'm not sure why hospitals are stockpiling it, if you're sick enough to go to the hospital you're probably in bad shape already. It would be like hospitals stockpiling Tamiflu.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/no-miraculous-recovery-some-icu-doctors-say-hydroxychloroquine-isn-t-n1177556

[Iliyah]

5. Well the WH is going to be . . .

experimenting on prisoners in the private run prison here in the USA. I assume they will be treating the prisoners who are infected with COVID-19, but alas, the WH fuckups including, but not limited to shithole are going to create more medical problems and deaths.

These people are sick.

[2naSalit]

6. Not only to they wish to be the

reincarnation if the third reich, they ARE a reincarnation of the third reich.

[not fooled]

11. They're already experimenting without consent

on elderly nursing home patients, in--where else?--Texas:

[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32081472/trump-hydroxychloroquine-texas-nursing-home/|]

So Governor Greg Abbott says essentially that the drug was used experimentally—"to determine if" is the giveaway phrase there—on elderly patients in a nursing home without the knowledge of their families, who are only now being notified. This does not strike me as a best practices situation. In fact, Abbott’s announcement smacks of the administration*’s new variation on the Hippocratic Oath, to wit: "Hey, what do you have to lose?"

And, of course, this being Texas, land of exploding fertilizer plants, regulatory oversight is little more than a mirage.

Asked whether he was required to get permission from the Texas Department of State Health Services to administer hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients, Armstrong said no. “We just, as a group of health experts, we made the decision it would be safe and for their benefit,” he said. “These are not meds that are odd or unusual.”

[2naSalit]

15. Saw that earlier. ...nt

[kimbutgar]

7. I think all MF45 supporters who have CV should take this drug to prove their orange Jesus correct!

[MLAA]

8. They've believed everything else fuck up 45 has told them, why stop now 😬

[LudwigPastorius]

10. "...it caused them blinding headaches, vision loss and agonizing cramps"

"It couldn't hurt!"

[dalton99a]

14. Kick