Here’s the thing about short-term viral infections: by the time you realize you’re Really Sick and identify why, 98% of the time, you are past the point that a virus replication-limiting drug is going to do a damn thing.
People who study more chronic conditions (& the general public) really want there to be an anti-COVID pill that will Fix Things, and I’m sorry, but that’s just not going to happen, & so I would love if cancer researchers would stop using their influence to push HCQ.
Effective, life-saving treatments for COVID-19 are going to focus on symptom & long-term impact mitigation. Pushing prophylactic off-label use of a drug that is life-saving for other conditions and seems useless at best for coronaviruses is irresponsible and asinine.
This is a nice way of saying that my mom asked me about the latest national news-amplified pro-HCQ screed from Harvey Risch, who's a Renowned Yale Epidemiology Professor, sure, but his work has been on cancer/NCD epi, so he doesn't really know...anything about viruses.
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