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Re:Chloroquine on Google Trends by IAmEveryone on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:40PM (#22648777)
Even worse, it’s leaving people with Lupus and arthritis in a position to quit the medication that’s keeping them alive/comfortable cold turkey.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/health/coronavirus-chloro...

And then you get this word salad that sounds like a forward from grandpa, early AOL era (even including all-caps): “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)”

All based on some data from a Petri dish, and a non-randomized trial where they measured “virus load” by eyeballing it: https://mobile.twitter.com/GaetanBurgio/status/1241201751916...

This is insanity, Nero-style (only without actual style). You couldn’t kill more people if you tried.

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Re:Chloroquine on Google Trends by teddyvangogh on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:42PM (#22648803)
Faulty generalization = the fallacy of examining just one or very few examples or studying a single case, and generalizing that to be representative of the whole class of objects or phenomena.
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