Hydroxychloroquine rated ‘most effective therapy’ by doctors for coronavirus:

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An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors found that hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus and the “most effective therapy” from a list of 15 options.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave chloroquine and its next-generation derivative, hydroxychloroquine, emergency-use authorization a week and a half ago for treating the novel coronavirus, although the drug was already being used off-label by some doctors and hospitals for COVID-19 patients.
The poll found 23% of U.S. medical professionals had prescribed the drug, which has been FDA-approved for malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Debate about hydroxychloroquine has raged in the United States since President Trump touted it two weeks ago as a potential “game-changer” in the fight against the deadly pandemic, prompting critics to accuse him of peddling unproven remedies, or “snake oil,” as USA Today put it.
 
Why are you posting an article from a “newspaper” owned and operated by Sun Myung Moon’s “Unification Church”, AKA the Moonies cult? They are a font of fake news.
 
It seems that 95% of the media and 50% of the US population is not suffering from CoVid-19, but from an even more widespread condition: Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS. Listening to the moaning and groaning each time the president speaks is becoming really TDS, so to speak.
 
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According to Google (I know, not the most authoritative source) hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria.

Without official announcements from medical authorities, I am skeptical of the claim that it works on covid-19.
 
Doctors are doing all sorts of things, including even pumping large amounts of vitamin C into people intravenously.

There are some who would prefer the president was wrong over hydroxychloroquine being a helping treatment but it’s looking like it is helping people.
 
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In addition, the Indian government has recommended that there health care workers take Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative.
 
Jbrady said:
Sermo isn’t a reliable source, either, for this type of information.
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WOW,
Ad Hominem is your ‘go-to’ r̶e̶f̶u̶t̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ deflection

For others, Sermo is
Sermo is a private social media network for physicians open to licensed M.D.s and D.O.s in the United States, and 149 other countries across Europe, North and South America, Africa, and English-speaking Oceania.
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Personally, I’m very curious to read what doctors are telling each other about treating COVID-19
 
Catholic_Guy1 said:
In addition, the Indian government has recommended that there health care workers take Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative.
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The source you quote does not say that. It says that the export of the drug is banned, in case it might be needed there. And there are trials going on.
 
Jbrady said:
Sermo is a marketing company paid by drug companies. Not interested in marketing BS.
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Again, more ad hominem. Why not read the paper and dispute what is said rather than saying oh I’m not reading that source.
 
You know, Science is based on trial and error, if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work, but it’s better than nothing.
 
Exactly. In that region of the world, malaria is a real thing and they need to keep their stock of this important medication!
 
adamhovey1988 said:
You know, Science is based on trial and error, if it doesn’t work it doesn’t work, but it’s better than nothing.
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It can be worse than nothing for society to adopt this remedy too soon.
  1. There are side-effects that need to be weighed.
  2. There are people who desperately need this drug because of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. If there is a run on this drug for no reason, these people will suffer seriously.
 
StudentMI said:
Again, more ad hominem. Why not read the paper and dispute what is said rather than saying oh I’m not reading that source.
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…because there is so much trash and misinformation being circulated that there aren’t enough hours in the day to refute each one of them line by line. It makes sense to look first of all to the reputation of the source before deciding to spend the time to wade through their content.
 
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