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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by tgafpc2 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @12:05PM (#22786355)
This site also has an article wistfully praising Remdesivir, a proprietary drug with far less evidence than HCQ. I think money might be talking here.
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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by cjhopman on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:13PM (#22787734)
A proprietary drug whose maker has said they will donate all 1.5 million doses that they currently have. That's more than they'll be able to produce over the next year (1 million) even after greatly increasing that production capacity.
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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by pseudalopex on Monday April 06, 2020 @01:33AM (#22791132)
The goal is more than 1 million treatment courses (10 million doses) by the end of this year.

https://www.gilead.com/stories/articles/an-update-on-covid-1...

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by cjhopman on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @10:06PM (#22819159)
Ah, I had misread that.

That statement didn't clearly say whether they were going to donate those that they haven't produced yet. If they aren't donating that, this donation is like a ~10% discount (compared to the ~66% discount I had originally interpreted it in that case).

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by af33 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @11:32PM (#22790701)
A lot of people just don't believe an old, boring drug cocktail can prove effective against a new disease.
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