I feel like the HCQ situation has gotten out of control
Trump mentioned it early on just trying to be upbeat and hopeful “I’ve heard good things about HCQ”, basically reading the same random reports a regular person would. Then Fauci says something basic like “well we’re not sure let’s not get our hopes up just yet”. And the whole thing gets exaggerated and politicized by both sides to ridiculous levels
People calling them “trump pills” and any time someone dies it’s “well did they not take HQC and vitC” like it’s magic. And it doesn’t help when it feeds into conspiracy theories and all the other nonsense. And a big part of it is denial that COVID is even a serious thing we need to deal with.
The truth is probably that we don’t know for sure yet if it works yet or not and there are maybe some other treatments and we need to explore everything
Well said. Also, there is at least one double-blind study proving that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective in treatment of COVID-19.