Pardon the dumb question, but has anyone just tried quinine? I've been wondering if a hefty gin and tonic would help matters.
Commercial tonic is limited by federal law to 20mg per 8 oz, so I make my own tonic.
It would be much much better and would likely stop this whole problem if we'd just mail prophylactic doses of HCQ to the whole population instead of mailing a $1500 check to everyone like they've decided instead.
It's very humorous how people look at tropical countries that still have widespread HCQ use for anti-malaria and announce that they must be undercounting cases since their reported numbers are far too low. No, their numbers are not too low. It's just a lot of people in these regions are essentially vaccinated.
Even then, if it proves effective in symptomatic cases, it’s unclear prophylactic use is called for. More sensible to administer to those with current symptoms. If truly effective this would lower fatalities and keep ICUs from being overwhelmed.
Finally, the most recent French study suggests a combination with azithromycin is the actual effective treatment. We just don’t know enough yet, we will soon, let’s be responsible.
> Areas of the world with chloroquine sensitive malaria are uncommon.[84]
The overlap between countries with few cases of Coronavirus and those with Malaria is tenuous at best. Turkey doesn’t have Malaria, and for that matter neither does Russia.
People in Malaria areas also tend not to use pharmacological prophylaxis, because the side-effects are impossible to tolerate in the long term. Prophylaxis is for tourists. That’s why mosquito nets are such effective intervention.
tonic syrup/concentrate, maybe.