Re:Chloroquine, past and present
by headmelted on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:41AM
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I’ve been trying to buy some since early January and haven’t found a single pharmacist who will sell it to me. If you know of one, please let me know.
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No-one carries it because they'd have hydroxychloroquine instead. Hydroxychloroquine is prescription only.
You're not going to be able to get a registered professional to give you anything for off-label experimentation, especially not something with potentially serious side effects like chloroquine.
Re:Chloroquine, past and present
by headmelted on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:02AM
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I agree but I wanted it as a precaution. In Northern Ireland the hospital system has a vanishingly low capacity and we only test for COVID if someone is dying and we don’t know why (I think 200 tests total), so it was precautionary.
There’s a non-zero chance this virus gets into my home and a high-90’s chance the health care system will just turn us away if we got in trouble.