It should be possible to supply a large part of the worlds population with (hydroxy)chloroquinine if that is deemed a solution, but the others seem less ideal candidates for that, or am I wrong?
The hoarding is even happening among my lesser scientifically-reasonable md colleagues. This has to stop. Now.
I hope when this is over, someone will look into this behaviour from the MDs. It's eroding trust in the system when they claim potentially vital resources for themselves.
Our bosses were still laughing at us for worrying on Monday evening, and now they're pissing their pants. Idiots.
Obviously I don't want anyone with lupus / malaria / etc to be adversely affected, but I think the people being forced to work the front lines do deserve to be somehow prioritized just from a "how do we keep the system operating efficiently" standpoint, and it doesn't really seem like the people who could manage supplies to make sure both parties needs are balanced, e.g. hospital administrations and regional governments, are going to take much responsibility for that.
<50yo: all MDs understand and have been vocal about it for weeks.
>50yo: nah, this can't happen to us great minds. Let's start preparing when the first patients are already in the ICU.
Link in dutch: https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/fabrikant-van-coronamedi...
So, yes, if we lived in India in the mid-to-late 1800s, drinking tonic water might help, at least for the things that quinine helps.
But modern tonic water isn't really anything like that.
Regardless, WHO should be doing trials on more over-the-counter products. It's dumb that they put out a statement warning people that there was no evidence that Garlic could be used as an antiviral, despite the fact that literally two days ago the FDA granted emergency expanded access for some multi-million dollar inhaled nitric oxide device based on the fact that nitric oxide has been shown to block the replication of SARS-CoV in vitro. (Guess the mechanism of action by which eating raw garlic nearly instantly lowers your blood pressure.)
Sources here: https://www.reddit.com/r/covid19stack/
And the article you're referencing chooses to link press releases, but only vaguely mention studies not only without linking but without even providing enough information to identify them - which hardly inspires confidence.
And the subreddit from which you're getting it is...wow. Just an absolute heap of fear-driven misinformation, and while I'm not without compassion for the people there who feel the urge to do something to protect themselves in the face of a very frightening situation, it's important to try to keep a clear enough head to understand the difference between developing knowledge and multiplying tiny probabilities into meaningless, misleading rumors. That subreddit is doing the second one of those, not the first. For the sake of your own emotional wellbeing, please consider taking it less seriously.
edit: Oh, sorry, I hadn't noticed that the people posting in that subreddit are basically 90% you. So, I guess I'm warning everybody else off it, and asking you to consider doing less of this, in the cause of everyone else's emotional wellbeing.
The vast majority of links are just to metastudies and literature reviews. If you think the Cochrane review studies or whatever are fear-driven misinformation then you should complain to them for creating them, not me for posting them.
Literally today Trump put out a statement saying that he's considering just sending everyone back to work and letting everyone get it all at once.[1] If that happens then the medical system basically won't even exist for 90% of people. What exactly do you propose that people should do in that scenario, just sit around drinking Gatorade and waiting to die?
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/us/politics/trump-coronav...