Look at the numbers for Uganda...very low for 47,000,000 people who live in insect infested jungles in huts and they have no business to shut down or doors to lock down...but they to have plenty of hydroxychloroquine...lots of mosquitoes...malaria is a way of life there...oh yeah, after President Trump was given that and zinc and azithromycin and some other theraputics, and got well in a few days...then the FDA decided that Hydoxy which cost 3 cents per dose should not be used after 65 years of effective application.
10th amendment says, to paraphase; if the activity isn’t enumerated in the Constitution, that activity falls to the States and the People...see if you can find the word “health” in the body of the Constitution...FDA, CDC, NIH, HHS, Medicare...do those bureaukrats have anything to do with health? We’re phuqued.
Again - and whether you are right or wrong about HCQ as therapy - not enough people in Uganda take HCQ or chloroquine on a regular basis to account for the low attack rates.
Not even close.
Actually, Ugandans are not popping HCQ on a daily basis, as some here seem to believe.
In fact, chloroquine (and its relative HCQ) has been out of use for so long in Uganda that chloroquine sensitive strains are beginning to emerge:
https://malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12936-020-03157-0
From the article:
“This study found evidence of stable persistence of chloroquine susceptibility with the fixation of pfcrt K76 in Northern Uganda after discontinuation of chloroquine in the region. Accumulation of similar evidence in other endemic areas in Uganda could open channels for possible future re-use of chloroquine as an option for malaria treatment or prevention.”
Before you object “but HCQ, not chloroquine”, HCQ is hydroxychloroquine. While it has fewer side effects, it is less effective against chloroquine-resistant P. falciparum than chloroquine (or plain old quinine).
Furthermore, prophylactic use of antimalarials is extremely rare among locals in third world countries. Unless one has lived in such countries, it is not something one would know, and I don’t fault my fellow Americans for imagining all these people are popping them every day. The fact is, they don’t. It simply is not done. One, they can’t afford it, two, it well, it just is not done, and three, the drugs that actually work in areas where resistant malaria predominates (nearly all of sub-Saharan Africa, for example) are expensive and often have nasty side effects (and prophylactically using the few drugs that are effective is discouraged, as it is feared this will contribute to building resistance to them as well).
Do Africans take chloroquine when they get malaria? Yes, they do, but hardly in numbers that would have any significant impact on Covid statistics — see my earlier post #81
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4014293/posts?page=81#81