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Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by wpietri on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:03AM (#22662820)
This is absurd:

> There is no new risk associated to using it that doctors arent already aware of.

You're imagining that their might be an unknown benefit using it with a novel disease, but you're confident that there won't be unknown risks?

Drugs just have effects. Risk/benefit is a human construction we apply over the top. There's no reason to expect only good surprises here.

Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by tim333 on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:51AM (#22672071)
Though why should it have weird side effects when used for COVID that it didn't when used for malaria?
Re:About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial by wpietri on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @08:30PM (#22680677)
As I said, drugs just have effects. Humans then look at the results, decide which are good and bad, and then label the bad ones "side effect". So I think the real question is: why do you think 100% of the novel effects will be later put in the "good" bucket?