Re:Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine
by marzell on Monday March 23, 2020 @07:42PM
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Saying that someone took X when referring to a chemical, and X is just a scary way of describing a use for that chemical, is really just FUD tactics. You know what else you could say that is just as meaningful? So-and-so died because they took an 'aquarium cleaner'... where the reference is to Water, which is also used when cleaning aquariums. Everything is chemicals.
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Re:Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine
by hnburnsy on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:00PM
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See below, likely other ingredients were involved and like others mention the difficulty of selecting the right dosing from an aquarium product makes it very pertinent to point out the source of what they took. Not FUD, just trying to add more context.
Re:Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine
by catalogia on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:28PM
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Your quoted source "A man has died and his wife is under critical care after the couple, both in their 60s, ingested chloroquine phosphate, an additive commonly used at aquariums to clean fish tanks." doesn't actually say these particular people used a fish tank product as their source of chloroquine phosphate.
This comment is harshly worded but explains the subtly well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22670152