Originally posted by niceshot oh really???? tell you what, maybe you will change your mind when some one close to you perishes
Especially if they perish because they took hydroxychloroquine or if they perish because they really do have a bona fide medical condition that requires hydroxychloroquine but all the false-hope hoarders and profiteers have stripped the shelves bare of the drug that likely does not work on COVID-19.
What most people outside the pharmaceutical industry fail to understand is that the vast majority of "promising" drugs turn out to be failures for one reason or another. They look good in small early studies but then fail during larger studies or (worse) fail while harming people during wide spread use. A combination of random chance, greed/ego, desperate hope, small sample sizes, experimental errors, and logical or statistical fallacies conspire to mean that many supposed wonder drugs turn into blunder drugs. Worse, given the huge worldwide pressure to find a cure for this, the chances for bad science and false hopes is even higher than normal.
I do honestly hope hydroxychloroquine works but no amount of hope is not going to change biochemical reality. In fact, hope may increase the chances of egregious mistakes on the part of patients, doctors, and policy makers.