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It's going to end up killing people. Chloroquine is nasty stuff and irresponsible to be hawking...pharmaceuticals can cause as much damage as they can prevent! There is no clinical basis and Trump continues to hawk it ultimately because he is so vested in hotels and hospitality and is more focused on financial damage control of his own investments than the health and safety of the American people.

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Some fools in Nigeria already got chloroquine poisoning all because of this ... people are desperate in such times.

I really don't get where this comes from. It's a generic drug that's been used for 70 years all over the world in tens of thousands of patients to treat malaria. It's already standard of care in China and South Korea where the recovery rates are high and the death rate is low.

I think your extreme Donald Trump hatred is clouding your judgement.

No, I don't hate anyone. Dosage. I have taken Chloroquine before, it is not as run of the mill as you think. Extreme side effects.

I am not a doctor, but there is a book named "Self-determined Dying: Manual for a rational Suicide by Chloroquine".

There is also a retinopathy named after Chloroquine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroquine_retinopathy

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8674334

You can overdose on it if you take more than 1.7 grams. The recommended dose is 400mg. For reference, you can overdose on tylenol and die if you take 4 times the recommended dosage.

The retinopathy happens after several years of taking the drug for rheumatoid arthritis. The course of treatment is six days for coronavirus.

> You can overdose on it if you take more than 1.7 grams. The recommended dose is 400mg. For reference, you can overdose on tylenol and die if you take 4 times the recommended dosage.

Now tell us what the half life of chloroquine is compared to acetaminophen..

Evidently short enough that people can take it for years.

I’ve been hopeful for CQ/HCQ since the French small study came out about 10 days ago... but i wish Trump hadn’t tweeted about it. Now we are being inundated with “CQ can kill you!” headlines, and people are trying to hoard it, harming the people already relying on it.

If you read the list of side effects for basically any drug on WebMD, you’d never take any medication again.

We just need to be patient and let the doctors/scientists do their work. Doesn’t mean we can’t be hopeful though.

I watched that press conference. He was trying to give hope to people and was optimistic. He even said he views things in the glass half full positive way. Even Dr Fauci said that they don't disagree - he just wants to see more studies because he's a scientist. It's the media's fault for trying to sensationalize it. I have pretty much stopped reading the media. They have cried wolf too many times now.

It is for Malaria not SARS and not even used anymore because of drug resistance.

Also please cite proof of "it's already standard of care" in China and S.Korea and nope Whatsapp or Facebook does not count.

For China: https://covid-19.alibabacloud.com/

Here's a comprehensive guide for treatment of covid-19 for hospital operators. Search for chloroquine:

https://www.alibabacloud.com/zh/universal-service/pdf_reader...

South Korea (plaquenil is a slightly modified version of chloroquine):

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2020/03/12/South-Kor...

> I really don't get where this comes from

It's hepatoxic and stays in your system for months. I believe side effects can include permanent blindness and psychosis.

https//www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-woman-husband-died-chloroquine-warns-not-to-trust-trump-2020-3

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