Comments by "Natural Hypertrophy" (@NaturalHypertrophy) on "Is Chloroquine an Effective Treatment for Coronavirus? w/Peter Hotez | Joe Rogan" video.

Certain Chinese and French studies show that chloroquine can reduce the viral charge up to 95% and shrink the contagion period from 20 to 6 days. Honestly considering we've been using this drug for close to 70 years to cure malaria at various doses we have a very strong grasp of the side-effects, so that shouldn't really be a serious blocker regarding its use to fight coronavirus
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France is having a massive meltdown over this. Dr. Raoult (extremely well respected specialist) has been telling the government to generalize the use of chloroquine for close to a month now. The government response? Classify the substance as toxic and ban its prescription.
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Put some respeck on Dr. Raoult's name
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@Mick McRick Let's go tell that to the people dying of coronavirus, I'm sure they'll be very happy to hear that we're prioritizing proper scientific process over their lives
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@TheTomtah The issue in the cases you're citing is that they waited the last second to administer chloroquine from what I gather. The drug reduces the viral charge but it's not miraculous. It needs to be prescribed early on to prevent lung failure. I also raise an eyebrow at the heart failure side effect of things. The dosages must be incredibly high considering that most military personnel doing jungle work / most African civilians consume chloroquine on a daily basis to fight malaria with no report of acute heart failure in these populations.
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@gregoryadams9025 Now picking sides here but we've been using chloroquine for 70 years now, with heavy dosages in the military (jungle missions) and malaria prevention for Africans who take it on the daily. If the drug had severe adverts side-effects it'd be out by now. Now whether or not it works in curing the coronavirus is a different story; most tests show it does. But if we have to wait to get a nice and tidy little lab test that takes months to be approved and go through several months of peer-reviews we might lose hundreds of thousands of people that could have just taken this drug and be saved while suffering minimal side-effects.
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@colonelcrush88 much appreciated Colonel
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@ScotisticDad No idea, ask Tomtah
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@gregoryadams9025 You're moving the goal post. You said we had no idea about the side-effects of chloroquine; I proved to you that we do. You said that we didn't know if it worked or not; I showed you that in a life or death case where it's either dying from coronavirus or taking the risk of suffering some mild side-effects the choice is easy to make. Your diatribe had very little to do with what I wrote and is actually a classic misrepresentation of the ideas that people who believe in the effectiveness of cholorquine push.
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