Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #5666 –
HCQ has some use in co-morbidities, provided diagnosis and treatment of an associated condition is completed early enough, so that is a hell of a waste!
I can see it wouldn't be donated to the 3rd world state as it may be sold off for profit as a COVID preventative / cure which it isn't. But there is evidence in tropical zones that if you get certain secondary bacterial infection or co-infection of something like Dengue or Malaria that some HCQ treatment could be of some use. However, because there are issues of liver and kidney damage it's not something they can just hand out, it has to be done in a suitable supervised environment. HCQ acts on the secondary infections, not Sars-CoV-2.