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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But now you know Didier Raoult’s name so he must be doing something right
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At this point, there was no good evidence, just anecdotes and an announcement by the Chinese that these drugs were promising against
#COVID19. Then came Didier Raoult's criminally shoddy paper claiming that the#Hydroxychloroquine/#Azithromycin combination cleared virus 100%. -
Then came Raoult's uniquely uninformative case series. Finally, there were two Chinese randomized trials, one negative and one with serious flaws that made it also uninformative. On this evidence base,
#Hydroxychloroquine has become, in essence, standard of care for#COVID19. - Show replies
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