Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "TIME" channel.

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  7. In April they for sure had testing going on (of existing drugs approved for other treatments) - we have some partial ! results now and some of it looks promising. But no one in their right mind (= experts that know what they are talking about) would have talked about a "proven" treatment in April 2020 - or now. These tests take time. Hydroxychloroquine increases the death rates, and does not help. so it makes things worse in some cases, while not even giving a benefit in other cases. Imagine that would have been used widely on an unproven assumption (and because Trump likely has financial interests in the company producing it). Actually they did involuntary testing (likely because of pressure of the Trump admin). veterans and patients in New Jersey and New York got it (the FDA gave a special licence for fast testing because of the pandemic, else they would never have been able to skip the phase where the company has to find volunteers and does small scale testing). It is not as if all patients were informed that they were guinea pigs. One journalist (Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now) was well informed, his 90 year old mother had Co-Vid-19. At some point they needed the hospital. Doctor: normally your mother would not qualify for hydroxychloroquine, but she can have it. Juan Gonzale: is there any reason, she should get it. What is the science on how that could benefit my mother, are there any risks ? .... Doctor retracted quickly. My reaction then: hospital management likely asked doctors to push it (if the person has no counter indication, heart problems would be one, but I would also be very sceptical about a 90 year old. First test it with strong young patients, follow up how they are doing, then widen the base. But of course that takes time. Anyway she recovered, and they took her home, she did not even have to stay, maybe she got some oxygen supply for at home. Maybe they wanted to be in the good books of the trump admin (future stimulus bills, money). Hospitals do get money, so the federal gov. may have tied that to doing a study (but not like a normal study, not with the normal legal and other protocols). They also pushed the experimental treatment in New York hospitals and did not really inform the patients, until they or relatives started asking questions. Anyway: after the first negative results were out (tests), the tests for hydroxychloroquine were stopped. FDA revoked the permit for testing. :
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