Comments by "j. rodman" (@jsrodman) on "FDA warns against drugs endorsed by Trump for COVID-19" video.

  1. Because of initial suggestive reports from China, and later a catastrophically flawed studyin in France, hydroxycloroquine was authorized for "emergency use". This meant that it permitted doctors to prescribe it for this purpose in cases where in their medical opinion the patient would likely face a bad outcome and where the risk of the medicine was not specifically high. In other words, it was put on a list of things permitted to try as hail-mary treatment because we currently don't know what actually works. Trump turned this into "just take it", completely ignoring the real risks of the medicine, which has led to people overly demanding it, which las led to harm. The FDA is holding a consistent position here. In the current situation, where we don't know what will be effective, a medicine which has a plausible method of potentially being effective is authorized for emergency use. That doesn't mean it's authorized for general treatment, or that we know it is effective at all. I'm not a huge FDA fan, but trying to suggest an inconsistency here is just an expression of ignorance.
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  2.  doc hall  Do you view human lives as some kind of commodity? You do realize that 1% of the population is 70 million people, right?
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