Per the article, at least 70 million doses of hydroxychloroquine should now be in the US pipeline, which should be sufficient to treat all current and at-risk patients, with global supply undoubtedly continuing to ramp.
If this protocol is as effective as early reports suggest, we should start seeing dramatic jumps in the recovery statistics by the end of this week and this whole crisis could well be over by Easter--exactly as Trump forecast. A nasty flu is unfortunate but nothing to freak out about. The doomsday scenarios the media has been hyping for weeks now of millions dead and dying is what has us all effectively under house arrest, which is causing real and serious economic harm, and undoubtedly contributing to unnecessary death in its own right.
You might even begin to believe that the US President has access to information that pundits don't have. Imagine that.
“While assumed nefariousness is common here, there’s a more charitable explanation for this delay readily at hand, that being the available supply. It would have done little good to “approve” the drug in advance of it being widely available as that would have simply led to more public panic as patients demanded what doctors could not give them because they didn’t have it. Per the article, at least 70 million doses of hydroxychloroquine should now be in the US pipeline, which should be sufficient to treat all current and at-risk patients, with global supply undoubtedly continuing to ramp.”
100% correct ... the normal limited pipeline supply for treating lupus and RA had been completely sucked dry (apparently mostly by doctor-hoarding), so no point in announcing big plans for trials or national treatment plans when there was no drug available ...