I have a pal who basically runs Africa’s version of VAERS. I'm glad you brought up Africa. The reason that the so-called Omicron variant was first identified in South Africa is because Africa had been relatively (to the rest of the world) covid-free due to their prevelant usage of HCQ for other problems.
Africa was spoiling the game for the derps. So voila. All of a sudden the latest 'variant' pops up. See how that works?
Anyway, your friend's words (anecdotal hearsay) have no bearing on this. And if you base any reliance on the 'reporting' of 'adverse events' in Africa, you are more of a child than I thought.
I swear, Pelham. You get worse and worse.
“because Africa had been relatively (to the rest of the world) covid-free due to their prevelant usage of HCQ for other problems”
Oh? And what exactly is behind this “prevalent usage of HCQ in Africa? What are these “other problems”?
Let me guess: the Q cat lady school of medicine thinks that it’s used for malaria; maybe a little bit of knowledge isn’t a dangerous thing this time; let’s check it out:
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/malaria_worldwide/reduction/drug_resistance.html
“Drug-resistant P. falciparum
Chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum first developed independently in three to four areas in Southeast Asia, Oceania, and South America in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Since then, chloroquine resistance has spread to nearly all areas of the world where falciparum malaria is transmitted.”
“P. falciparum has also developed resistance to nearly all of the other currently available antimalarial drugs, such as sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, mefloquine, halofantrine, and quinine. Although resistance to these drugs tends to be much less widespread geographically, in some areas of the world, the impact of multi-drug resistant malaria can be extensive.”
Oops. Sorry. I guess that idea won’t help you much. Maybe there’s some other “other problem” Team Q can dig up.
But probably not. There’s actually a couple of docs here at FR with extensive experience in Africa who’ve posted about the absence of HCQ use there due to the drug resistance of the malaria parasite. Maybe you could change horses to Ivermectin, it at least is used to treat worms.