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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?
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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?
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