Trump taking hydroxychloroquine.

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Why the f' do you care what people do with their own bodies - unless it's an abortion. Geeeezus. The you protect that woman's right! Oh, yeah.

Hydroxycloroquine has been Ok'd for medical use in the US since 1955. People use it for maladies such as lupus, arthritis and malaria. And if people want to follow Trump's actions and get medical clearance to do so, why the F' do you care? But of course, you totally make up the BS about people going to their doctor to get scripts for HQ, right? all BS.

@techsouth said
From a pure logic perspective, little is provable nor unprovable. I concede that by pure logic and logic alone, yes 30% of all doctors could not only be wrong, but actually be idiots and that the rest of the population smart enough to know that 30% of doctors are idiots and even know which 30% are idiots.

But, if you need to presume that 30% of doctors are idiots in or ...[text shortened]... acts support your contention that Trump is touting HC for financial gain? That also seems like TDS.

The "less than 1%" was part of the statement about doctors, not Trump. Since he's 73 the relevant infection fatality rate is something of the order of 4.28% [1]. However, the point remains that he is extremely ill-advised to be taking hydroxychloroquine prophylactically, assuming he is. There was at most low quality evidence of it being effective against covid-19 at the time of this announcement, it has already known harms. In the most recent study [2], published today so after the announcement, the specific outcomes were mortality in hospitalized patients and ventricular arrhythmias. The hazard ratios for mortality was 1·335, (95% CI 1·223–1·457) and for ventricular arrhythmias 2·369, (95% CI 1·935–2·900). The study was in patients hospitalized for covid-19.

Drugs come with adverse effects. There's a cost benefit trade-off and in the absence of any real evidence of a benefit it's all cost. I severely doubt your statement about "30% of doctors", if it's true then a lot of US doctors need to be instructed not to prescribe non-FDA approved drugs or striking off whatever your equivalent of a medical register is. Really.

As an exercise in marketing a drug that is not FDA approved for this use, I think it's great.

[1] Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019:
a model-based analysis, Verity et al., https://doi.org/10.1016/
S1473-3099(20)30243-7
[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext