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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by DanBC on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:51AM (#22645540)
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.

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Re:Chloroquine, past and present by headmelted on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:02AM (#22653668)
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.

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