About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial
I see many problems with all the caution around that study:<p>1/ chloroquine is a very well known cheap drug. There is no new risk associated to using it that doctors arent already aware of.<p>2/ we do have a lot of statistics now on the outcome of patient <i>not</i> treated with that drug. There's no need for establishing a benchmark. Just proper categorization of existing patient should be enough to compare.<p>3/ people are oversaturating ICU <i>right now</i>. And as such, it <i>is</i> an emergency situation. We should take the reverse reasoning we usually take : if there's no suscipicion this drug could cause new problems, we should have people massively use it whenever possible and look at the result after 6 days (since that's the time the original study says it takes for the first results to show).