Woman Who Took Hydroxychloroquine For 19 Years To Treat Lupus Still Got COVID-19

[Initech]

A Wisconsin woman who has taken hydroxychloroquine for 19 years to treat lupus says the anti-malarial drug will not protect someone from COVID-19.

Kim, who doesn’t want to show her face or give her full name, says after the pandemic began, she only left her Oconomowoc home to go the grocery store.

But by mid-April, she started feeling coronavirus symptoms.

“Weak all over. Coughing, fever. The fever was very high,” she told WISN. “It just went downhill from there. I couldn’t breathe no more.”

Kim said she tested positive for COVID-19.

“When they gave the diagnosis, I felt like it was a death sentence. I was like, ‘I’m going to die,'” she said. “I’m like, ‘How can I be sick? How? I’m on the hydroxychloroquine.’ They were like, ‘Well, nobody’s ever said that was the cure or that was going to keep you safe’ and it definitely did not.”
https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2020/05/20/how-can-i-be-sick-woman-who-took-hydroxychloroquine-for-19-years-to-treat-lupus-still-got-covid-19/

Trump might as well sell his MAGA followers a big bottle of snake oil.

[leftieNanner]

1. If he's actually taking this drug

Then he thinks he's protected from covid 19 and he will be sloppy about staying safe. This could be in our favor....

[Brainfodder]

2. Any glimmer of hope is IMHO..... WORTH IT!

[Volaris]

10. Hes taking a sugar pill lol.

No doctor in their right mind n worth their degree would prescribe this for anything other than its medically approved purpose...let alone one otherwise qualified to work in the White House.

If trump wanted to insist they give it to him, I guarantee he got a placebo, a pat on the head and a lollipop for being such a brave boy at the scary doctors visit.

[leftieNanner]

11. Aha! I spotted your error there

"qualified to work in the White House."

[Volaris]

12. Hrmm. I SHOULD correct that, shouldnt I lol?

...qualified to work in any other White House Administration that's not THIS ONE.

[smb]

21. "The Hydroxychloroquine Is The One Shaped Like Fred Flintstone, Right?" nt

[Volaris]

24. Zactly.

[flibbitygiblets]

15. He's definitely not taking it. He just wants people to think he is. So he can make money off it.

Because he sees EVERYTHING in terms of how it affects him. How so many people fall for his con job bewilders me.

[mercuryblues]

17. But did she take it in

conjunction with a tanning bed- UV lighting, while drinking a Sex on the Bleach? If not, then the joke's on her.

[leftieNanner]

18. The whole UV light thing is so silly.....

Because it only works if you shove it up your butt.

[smb]

22. Well, Then He's Safe

He's got dozens of sycophants shining sunlight up his ass 24/7.

[RhodeIslandOne]

3. To be fair, I don't think it was ever said to be a vaccine....

....but a treatment, which is why Dump taking it when he doesn't have it makes no fucking sense.

[DURHAM D]

4. Trump thinks it is a preventative. eos

[RhodeIslandOne]

6. I clearly can't keep up with what that moron thinks

[SCantiGOP]

9. I don't believe for one minute

that trump is taking this. He is a coward. He might tell Pence or Pompeo to take it, but he wouldn't take the chance.

[lunatica]

13. Someone told him it was a prophylactic so

naturally he knew it was safe.

[smb]

23. "Prophyactic? You Mean Like Those Rubber Things That Are Too Loose For My Super-Duper Missile?" nt

[lunatica]

25. LOL!

[marybourg]

5. They've given up on "treatment" , and now touting it

as a “preventative “.

As someone with lupus, I was more interested in hearing that she did recover, without a cytokine storm. So far.

[Initech]

7. They don't care. At all.

Which is what is going to make this thing that much worse.

[warmfeet]

8. Dotard is killing his followers.

Fine by me.

[flibbitygiblets]

14. Step right up, get yer Captain Trump's Magic Elixir! Cures pants on fire, mushroom schlong,

microdigit-itis, racoon peepers, orange-a-tan, lippy lady journalists, impeach-pits too!

[Laurelin]

16. One person

One anecdotal story doesn't make a scientific study, any more than Trump's anecdotal stories do. I'm not in favor of the stuff but I do wish we'd all wait for the clinical trials. Doesn't make Trump any less of an idiot. Science should be apolitical though. Scientists aren't. They're mostly Democrats these days, since Republicans are anti science.

[Gothmog]

19. This is interesting

[struggle4progress]

20. "Was she taking it with bleach and Lysol and standing in the sunlight? No? Well, there ya go:

when ya don't use it right, it don't do no good"

[NNadir]

26. I'm certainly hoping he's taking this drug. It's ineffective and dangerous.