[JoSixChip]

What’s the problem, we know it is safe. If I come down with symptoms I’m going to want it immediately. I don’t want to wait until the pandemic is over before its approved to be used.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Actually, we know its roughly 99% safe, and that tests can confirm the safety or danger for the remaining 1%.

I’d take it, given the current info. Along with the Z-Pack and the zinc.

[SmokingJoe]

The drug has been in use for over 70 years. We know it's safe. I have personally taken hundreds of doses of Chloroquine for malaria when I lived in Africa 40 years ago.
As far as coronavirus is concerned, if someone is seriously ill from coronavirus and seems likely to die, what the heck does he have to lose by trying Chloroquine, especially since its already proved effective in places like France and other countries?
Fauci needs to go take a jump over a very steep cliff.

[whitemale]

Well, even if sick you can’t get it anyway.
For some reason it is “restricted”
Some lawyer somewhere is going to get rich when a patient that would have had a decent chance is denied this drug and dies or has a significant complication.
I will testify for the plaintiff. (49 yr. as MD still practicing family medicine) and have had my Rx for plaquenil denied for a patient I considered at high risk with no ability to test in a timely manner.
Thus my judgment is of highest priority in an individual case. Not the pharmacist or her non-medical boss.
Her corporate boss “restricted” it. Not the government
—————Albertsons———————

[xkaydet65]

There is not a single chemo treatment that is successful in curing cancer. Yet when my wife was prescribed Yervoy for melanoma we didnt care it had a 25% success rate or that there might be difficult side effects. It was a chance. We didnt hesitate to take it. It didn’t succeed but I do not blame the oncologist. Instead he gave us a chance. That is exactly how HCQ should be treated. It is a chance.

[datricker]

I'm not understanding the logic of it at all. Why aren't they distributing this at the post office along with the checks?

Or better yet if people want to take the drug put the flag on you mailbox up and the mailman can leave the needed doses - something it can't be this tough.

[StolarStorm]

But why? Isn’t it “just a flu?”