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Posted On: 04/03/2020 12:13:35 AM
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If I’m a doctor and my patients are dying due to cadiac arrest left and right, I would not highly rate hydroxychloroquine regardless of my other options. It’ll be very unethical otherwise.
You are skeptical because the drug is unproven, which I agree 100% by repeating larger controlled trials are needed. My narrative is this: although it’s unproven, anecdotal evidence suggest it’s effective in some patients. At this difficult time, that’s good enough for the medical experts at the FDA to recommend it for emergency use. They believe benefit outweighs risk.
Bottom line, some patients cannot afford to be skeptical. They don’t have time to wait until Phase 3 is done. Deperate times call for deperate measures. Until better and safer treatments are available, why not look at the bright side and be happy that the drug is saving some patients’ lives?
You are skeptical because the drug is unproven, which I agree 100% by repeating larger controlled trials are needed. My narrative is this: although it’s unproven, anecdotal evidence suggest it’s effective in some patients. At this difficult time, that’s good enough for the medical experts at the FDA to recommend it for emergency use. They believe benefit outweighs risk.
Bottom line, some patients cannot afford to be skeptical. They don’t have time to wait until Phase 3 is done. Deperate times call for deperate measures. Until better and safer treatments are available, why not look at the bright side and be happy that the drug is saving some patients’ lives?
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