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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Esther Choo MD MPH‏Verified account @choo_ek 5 Apr 2020

      Reasons to not get over excited about hydroxychloroquine: 1. Early promising therapies often disappoint 2. There are known toxicities & dangerous drug interactions 3. People need these meds for evidence-based indications (eg., RA, SLE) Wait for the studies. Don't hoard.

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    2. Ryan Marino‏Verified account @RyanMarino 6 Apr 2020
      Replying to @choo_ek

      It’s especially disturbing that it seems to be largely medical professionals doing this and not understanding how science workshttps://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/donald-trumps-dangerous-messaging-about-a-possible-coronavirus-treatment …

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      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 6 Apr 2020
      Replying to @RyanMarino @choo_ek

      The infatuation with #Hydroxychloroquine to treat #COVID19 began before the right wing grifters latched on to the drug. The origin comes from an unconfirmed, unpublished observation by doctors in Wuhan in January that 80 patients with lupus didn't get coronavirus.

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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @RyanMarino @choo_ek

          That let to doctors trying it, anecdotes, and then registered clinical trials, only two of which have been published, both small, one negative, and one positive but so flawed as to be uninformative. 2/

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @RyanMarino @choo_ek

          But before even that, in February the Chinese announced that the clinical trial results were "promising" and issued an "expert #Hydroxychloroquine and #chloroquine to their recommendations for treating #COVID19. Doctors around the world took their word for it and did the same.

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        1. Ryan Marino‏Verified account @RyanMarino 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @choo_ek

          And some in vitro experiments that have never panned out in vivo. It seems to come up with every viral outbreak (I remember it from Zika at least). It is very bizarre that people want to reach for drugs like chloroquine, colchicine, ivermectin, etc for these conditions.

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        2. President Elect Gordon‏ @realOfrGordon 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @RyanMarino @choo_ek

          So Isn't that another indication that it might work or at least help?

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        3. Jim 'snarky' Ruel‏ @nativecomedian 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @realOfrGordon @gorskon and

          Anecdotal evidence is worthless. So no.

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        2. CanadianChick‏ @SkepCdnChick 6 Apr 2020

          Nothing has been proven yet.

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        2. CanadianChick‏ @SkepCdnChick 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @gorskon @RyanMarino @choo_ek

          Wait, what? Lupus patients, who already probably take more precautions than the average person because of having an auto-immune disease, don’t get COVID-19, and they decide it’s the medication that was the reason? OMG.

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        3. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 6 Apr 2020
          Replying to @SkepCdnChick @RyanMarino @choo_ek

          I kid you not. That's the origin of the hypothesis. In Wuhan in January, some doctors noted that 80 patients with lupus taking #Hydroxychloroquine or #chloroquine never got sick with #COVID19.

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        2. Graeme Leggett‏ @GrumFromNorwich 6 Apr 2020

          Yes he is. What are you?

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