The science behind it’s use was discussed and known for awhile. But because Trump touted it, attempt to offer hope, everyone who mentioned it was ridiculed and thrown into the realm of conspiracy theories.
Now that it’s shown to be effective, those who were once critics are now magically supporters. Michigan Governor is prime example.
Some of these hydroxy doses that they are using on patients are pretty small too so there is a lot that needs to be learned about dosing. Many of the docs are using something like 200 mg twice a day. But they are prescribing more like 1000 mg or more a day, long-term, for malaria users. Probably the lower dose is the way to go for covid except wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy earlier in the game. There are lots and lot of drug that effective early on in smaller doses but are very ineffective at stopping a disease after it is full blown. Just sayin that part of the mentality among those who are finally loosening up on the use of hydroxy is based on "okay, I am all in favor of it experimentally but only for the sickest of the patients." But that mentality is the problem. It's like saying "we are going to have clinical trials on a new antibiotic but only going to use it on people who have developed gangrene." Helloooooo.. You probably could have prevented that gangrene with a drop of iodine at the right time. And from there one of hundreds of known antibiotics would work in the early stages. But full blown gangrene? Too much pressure to put on the drugs that would have worked earlier.
Just sayin that the next move that the opponents will go for is to say that clinical trials show that it is only marginally effective in studies of ICU patients but that is probably not where hydroxy does its best work, if it does work. Dr. Fauci does great research but we are talking battlefield medicine here. I get his perspective and standards and it is highly desirable in his lane in life which is a lab. But if he were in some village in Africa where covid was breaking out and there was a whole supply of hydroxy in reach because it is being used in the region to fight malaria, I cannot not see him using it on a sick covid patient unless it went through his clinical trials. In battlefield medicine you have some frigging duty to be able to look a family in the eye and say that you tried everything. Yes the scammers and snake oil types need to be kept out of the process and there needs to be at least a reasonable basis for trying an approach even it does not work, but hydroxy meets that standard.
The dems are gunning for dead americans and to see Trump fail. They are toxic to the country, some of the alleged dems here are actually in shit-hole countries right now and are not Americans. If hydroxy poops out and kills ten thousand people they will be as happy as clams at high tide.