Chloroquine, past and present

Re:Chloroquine, past and present by patrickbuckley on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:51PM (#22639649)

This is a great reminder, thank you for pointing it out. Interestingly during the 1918 Spanish flu aspirin was a new drug and was given to people in an effort to reduce fever. The problem is they gave it in doses that we now know is toxic. There is some evidence that patients treated in hospitals with aspirin had a 30x!!! deathrate vs those treated "homeopathically". This YouTube video goes into the history and context of it ...

https://youtu.be/dT6mHi_8V5E (go to 11:30 in video)

I beleive in modern medicine and science but we should be careful about being overly optimistic and harming people by giving them a powerful drug that hasn't been tested properly.

Edited to add time point in video.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by mymacbook on Friday March 20, 2020 @02:19PM (#22639965)

Those that did not take aspirin during the Spanish flu had far lower morbidity rates. Fever is not something I rush to suppress with drugs until I exceed 104.0 - same for my family and even when our daughter was a little tiny thing.

Preliminary unpublished information shows concerns on accelerating progression of SARS-CoV-2 virus to COVID-19 illness for ALL NSAIDs (not just aspirin). However, even with non-NSAIDs I exercise extreme caution when using (e.g. acetaminophen - Tylenol - 4000mg is considered VERY TOXIC for liver).

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