re: Is it easy getting Hydroxychloroquin?

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The way I look at it is what harm would it do to take HCQ? It's cheap and safe. Millions of people have been taking this drug for 60 years for malaria. If I get Covid I don't see how taking this would hurt vs not taking anything and trying to beat it.

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It was explained to you earlier why Doctors aren't just going to prescribe something just to do it.


Some people need that drug for real treatments of conditions it's known to treat.

Giving it out on a hope that it could work all willy-nilly could lower supply and raise the price.





anyway, I bet the doctor will just give you a placebo script just to placate you.

Well, for one, there was/is a shortage of the drug meaning people who legitimately benefit from it for their RA or lupus have trouble getting it. My buddies wife has lupus and she needs it.

Second, there are hundreds of other generic drugs out there that are cheap and "safe" but also are likely to not improve your symptoms...do you want to take all of those too, or are you just in love with this one because Trump suggested months ago it works (along with lysol and high energy light beams)?

As others have said already, your experience with the virus is likely to be incredibly benign, and you'd be fine with a watch and monitor approach...so why take any prescription med if you don't have to?

Other treatment techniques that HCPs have learned since this thing first started are making a big impact in reducing severity and mortality.

Lastly, the FDA (the people who originally approved the drug) have removed it from the emergency use act so doctors are incredibly unlikely to be giving it to anyone.

I could keep going, but you get the point.