[Redwood71]

“Where would you like to start?”

We might start here:

This includes reports of serious heart rhythm problems and other safety issues, including blood and lymph system disorders, kidney injuries, and liver problems and failure.

Get that part about serious heart rhythm problems?

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or

Data from Solidarity (including the French Discovery trial data) and the recently announced results from the UK’s Recovery trial both showed that hydroxychloroquine does not result in the reduction of mortality of hospitalised COVID-19 patients, when compared with standard of care.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-hydroxychloroquine-and-covid-19

There is a higher risk of side effects in the presence of renal and liver impairment, and there have been isolated reports of COVID-19 disease-causing renal and hepatic injury.

https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/chloroquine-and-hydroxychloroquine-current-evidence-for-their-effectiveness-in-treating-covid-19/

Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, said the verdict on hydroxychloroquine is not in doubt.

“We all hoped it was going to work. ... All of the studies that were rigorously done have pointed in the same direction, which is that the drug doesn’t work,” Gottlieb told MSNBC. “I think at this point, we can definitively say hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work. I’m not sure what more we need to do.”

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200729/hydroxychloroquine-no-covid-cure-experts-warn

Where would you like to start? Where do you want me to stop? At no time did I say this was not a possible, workable product to be used. I said it is not proven to be a cure or, in most of the well performed trials, even an improvement. It may be the answer. But with all the baggage it carries, and that everyone will not react to it the same, they don’t have the answer. And getting fired up over questionable studies and media spin, can get people killed.

rwood

[gogeo]

'Studies' dated before March 2020 would be a good start. Also a logical explanation why it suddenly became toxic after it became known as the "Trump Drug."

This is a medicine widely used for the past 65 years, available OTC in many countries. No medicine, of course, is safe for everyone at all times or in association with taking certain medicines or certain pre existing conditions. But then, no medicine is banned because of adverse effects on certain classes of people...especially when the US Military hands them out like Chiclets. Except, it seems, for HCL...

Look, think what you want. I recognize intellectual dishonesty I see it. YMMV.