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Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by tw000001 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:22AM (#23404359)
>more likely because it’s out of patent there’s a lot of money interested in exploring other things as a treatment

HCQ was not even remotely controversial until Trump tweeted about it.

Our institutions have lost their collective minds with their spiteful, childish hatred for a politician. Academia and news media have completely lost sight of objectivity.

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Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by programmarchy on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:36PM (#23407010)
People started hoarding HCQ in early February when the first Chinese studies were coming out. Didier Raoult's (crazy looking French doctor) reports in mid-March sparked the first controversies. I remember worrying at that point there'd be some big-pharma-backed media operation to discredit a cheap, patent-expired drug since there are trillions of dollars at stake. Trump tweet was in late March.
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