I'm astonished that people think doctors, biomedical researchers, and public health professionals—who have devoted their lives to helping people—are lying about #hydrochloroquine treatment for #COVID19 just to hurt Trump, rather than expressing justified skepticism based on data.
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Replying to @CT_Bergstrom
Please correct me if I misunderstand, but we have a couple weak studies in favor, a couple that don't see an effect, and anecdotal evidence. More research seems needed?
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Replying to @Plinz
That seems about right. I don't know anyone against more research. I know a lot of people who are cautioning against seeing it as our way out of this mess.
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Replying to @CT_Bergstrom
If so, then stating that hydroxychloroquine does DEFINITELY does may be politically motivated, no? I've seen that several times, and find it plausible that some of the push against hydroxychloroquine was indeed motivated by revulsion against Trump's premature recommendation.
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Replying to @Plinz
I think there are various reason why people may be optimistic. We want out of this unimaginable situation. *I* wanted to be optimistic. The push *against* it as a miracle drug seems proportional to the misinformation I'm seeing on FOX etc. No one wants to stop testing it.
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Replying to @CT_Bergstrom @Plinz
That’s not true though. Trump delivered maybe one tweet about hydroxycloroquine. I’m sure you don’t watch Fox. But people are apoplectic that he would deign to pontificate on anything scientific/medical, because they hate him. And I think it says more about them than it does him.
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I mean... that’s fair. I still think people go way too crazy about everything Trump does, and it hard to take them seriously when they’re having an emotional melt down every five mins.
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It's also useless to be upset about how most people behave unless we have a vaccine against their behaviors :)
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