The pushback on chloroquine is completely insane. It's a 90 year old, well-understood drug used safely by millions with mild side effects.
The in-vitro results for chloroquine as an antiviral have been positive for many viruses, but it has never worked out in RCTs.
Claiming there is good evidence from in-vivo studies is scientifically illiterate. Please post links to well-done RCTs if you believe they exist.
There is a reason the WHO is running a 5-arm clinical trial for COVID.
Edit: Your response to me literally says “In-Vitro” in the title.
Edit 2: “There is absolutely evidence” ... But no links. No, sorry, you are still just wrong.
I take it you are not familiar with epidemiology, clinical evaluation of drug efficacy, or medical statistics. That’s fine! No one is saying you need to be. But you shouldn’t be extremely confident of your conclusions when experts are telling you that you’re wrong.
The French chloroquine+azithromycin trial was terrible and no one in the medical world believes it. There’s a reason no respectable journal would publish it. SIX of the people in the C+A arm died and were removed from the analysis, which is absurd. The outcome was viral titers, which were different for different arms. Just maddening.
I am not extremely confident in what is not even a conclusion. I am simply shocked at the pushback and resistance to a promising treatment with minimal downsides.
Medecine appears to be the only profession in the world that only accepts one form of evidence. That is what is maddening.
The FDA, CDC, and WHO’s position is the same as mine.
That view is “insane”, or at least strongly misinformed and medically/scientifically illiterate.
In fact, there is no strong evidence that supports this and substantial prior evidence that contradicts it.
Unfortunately, this belief leads to bad outcomes, such as people literally dying, as is the case here.
Stop acting like there is. It’s insane at this point. It might work, but frankly it’s unlikely given the history of chloroquine’s failures as an antiviral.