This is what happens when you take medical advice from a lying fool:

[milestogo]

Coronavirus prevention: Nigeria's Lagos state battling chloroquine poisoning

March 20: Chloroquine posioning in Lagos

An official of Nigeria’s Lagos State government has disclosed that hospitals are receiving patients suffering from chloroquine poisoning.

Oreoluwa Finnih, a Senior Special Assistant to Lagos governor has thus urged the public to desist from using the anti-malaria drug as a measure of preventing coronavirus infection. In Nigeria reports indicate that the drug’s price has been hiked since the news broke.

Chloroquine has been gaining traction on social media since some news agencies reported it had been approved for the COVID-19 pandemic.

The outlets cited U.S. president Donald Trump as making the claims. America’s Food and Drugs Authority, FDA, has since disclaimed the assertion saying the drug has not been cleared for any such purpose.

africanews.com/2020/03/20/nigeria-confirms-third-coronavirus-case-index-patient-fully-recovers/

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...for visibility...nt

[MerryBlooms]

2. egad.

[leftieNanner]

3. And isn't that the Drug that The Orange One wants us to take?

[milestogo]

6. Yes, he was touting it even today.

I don't expect people in other countries to know that he's an idiot. Who would think the US President would give out false medical information?!

People in African countries are likely to get chloroquine fairly easily, since they live in areas where there is malaria. I believe you take a low dose as a prophylactic. Its not a remedy.

[leftieNanner]

8. I think that was when Fauchi did the face palm

I think we took it when we went to Africa last year. It made me really sick to my stomach so I quit taking it.

Ah. A vacation. That seems like so long ago. Won't be taking any of those for a while.

[milestogo]

15. There's another, newer drug that you probably got: atovaquone-proguanil

It does cause upset stomach and diarrhea.

So you don't get malaria, which gives you severe diarrhea, but you get upset stomach and diarrhea.

[leftieNanner]

18. I think you are right

That's what we took. Didn't have any problems at all after I stopped taking it. And no malaria either. Still can't donate blood for another four months, though.

[Traildogbob]

33. And no Toiler Paper😱

[sinkingfeeling]

34. I just took that one for 42 days at the end of last year. I had zero problems.

[Ms. Toad]

25. The face palm was the reference to deep state. n/t

[leftieNanner]

28. Oh, that's right

I'm surprised he didn't just keep his face in his hands during the entire thing.

[emmaverybo]

29. Yes. And at "deep state" right about then.

[Rebl2]

37. I took it

for many years for rheumatoid arthritis-1980 until 2016. It really helped my arthritis, but it started having an affect on my eyes and my eye dr. told me to stop taking it. My rheumatologist was not thrilled, but she understood my eye sight was more important.

[uponit7771]

7. Yes, Trump is like a really bad case of monkey butt

[leftieNanner]

12. You made me laugh

I remember the reaction my children had when we went to the zoo and saw the baboons with their large red butts. They thought it was hilarious! Innocence.

[uponit7771]

17. +1, monkey but is an actual thing too ... beginnings of a rash on the butt for adults from sitting

... to long with little air around the skin on ones but.

There's a powder for it but the itching is uncontrollable

[leftieNanner]

19. Can we get the witches to work on that?

Send HIM a case of monkey butt? That would make me happy.

I want him to suffer greatly for all of the suffering he has caused.

[uponit7771]

21. +1, ... and that he gets it while at the podium lying to everyone. He would literally stop talking

... start scratching his butt instantly.

I've been witness to that scene ... it aint good.

[leftieNanner]

22. As if anybody would notice...

nt

[uponit7771]

4. sigh ... jus, I wish Trump would just ... damn

[tblue37]

5. K&R for visibility. nt

[Jamastiene]

9. Willful stupidity is really going to be what ends civilization as we knew it.

If the virus doesn't kill us, we will.

A girl in that Christian school I went to when I was a kid told me in first grade that if you shave above your knees, you'll get cancer. Not long after that, I learned she was full of shit.

It's called learning. If you hear stupid shit, confirm whether it is true or not.

Stupidity is going to be the thing that does the human species in. The species' own stupidity. How fucking hard is it to stay the fuck home and goof off for a few weeks?

[leftieNanner]

13. My older daughter told her little sister that

the bubbles on a soda are poisonous. And then she drank it, of course. Little sister burst into tears and came running for me to tell me that Katie was gonna DIE! Now that they are 25 and 28, they seem to have learned that it's not the case.

Good times.

[ooky]

10. Jim Bakker's Chloroquine Extract should go on sale by tomorrow. nt

[leftieNanner]

14. Toothpaste? nt

[KewlKat]

11. I heard a Dr last night say it's NOT safe if you have certain heart cinditions

It messes with the heart rhythm in older folks and it can also cause an unknown heart issue to arise.

What the Effer in the WH is doing is criminal. Everyone who is injured as a result of his lies should ask he be prosecuted for attempted murder and reckless endangerment.

[gratuitous]

16. Trump was touting chloroquine just this morning

"What have you got to lose?" Well, fucknuts, your life for one.

[uponit7771]

20. +1

[keithbvadu2]

23. The same Dr Trump who says TBI is just a headache and CV folks can go to work.

The same Dr Trump who says TBI is just a headache and CV folks can go to work.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. I had an email today offering me a supply of chloroquine. It was

from a foreign pharmacy.

[milestogo]

32. Lots of scammers out there now.

[Hoyt]

26. Short-term use in a hospital with proper dosage and monitoring is hardly the same as OP.

France24, state-owned media:

"Didier Raoult, director of a university hospital institute in Marseille, explained that he had conducted a clinical trial in which he treated 25 Covid-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine. After six days, he said, only 25 percent of patients who took this drug still had the virus in their body. By contrast, 90 percent of those who had not taken hydroxychloroquine continued to carry the Covid-19."

https://www.france24.com/en/20200320-will-an-old-malaria-drug-help-fight-the-coronavirus


Doctors Turn to Malaria Drugs as Potential Coronavirus Treatment
Some studies of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have shown early signs of improving symptoms and manufacturers are donating drugs or looking increase supplies
https://www.wsj.com/articles/doctors-turn-to-malaria-drugs-as-potential-coronavirus-treatment-11584729626


China, South Korea and Belgium have added it to the treatment protocol for CV19

https://www.businessinsider.com/malaria-pill-chloroquine-tested-as-coronavirus-treatment-2020-3


Other similar meds --

https://www.newsweek.com/2020/04/03/hydroxychloroquine-answer-coronavirus-pandemic-inside-race-find-covid-19-cure-1493349.html

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31. Right.

But there are a lot of people in the world who don't have access to good information or medical treatment. Its criminal for POTUS to start talking about drugs when he doesn't know shit about them.

[magicarpet]

36. Looking for remedies to tie people over until the Coronavirus 19 vaccine comes out.

This is not a laughing matter. People around the world have their antennae up for alternate ways to keep people alive until a vaccine is on the market. During the interim drugs already on the market maybe cross purposed to keep COVID-19 patients on their death bed alive.

An example of Cross Purposing Pharmaceuticals: Minoxidil.

Oral minoxidil was originally used for treating high blood pressure, but patients and health care providers noticed that hair growth was a side effect of treatment. ... The FDA then approved minoxidil for hair regrowth.in August 1988

https://www.medicinenet.com/minoxidil/article.htm

Anti-malarials and anti-retroviral drugs currently on the market show some promise. Drug studies should be done to help high risk patients who will die if they do not receive some medical interventions.

How doctors can potentially significantly reduce the number of deaths from Covid-19
We already have medicines for treating cytokine storm syndrome, the immune response that’s killing many who die of Covid-19.

Anti-malarial and anti- retroviril drugs currently on the market show promising results to save a patient from cytokine storm syndrome which is causing the death of COVID-19 patients.

By Randy Cron and W. Winn Chatham on March 12, 2020 3:20 pm

https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21176783/coronavirus-covid-19-deaths-china-treatment-cytokine-storm-syndrome

[burrowowl]

27. Kick

And many people are allergic to quinine

[marble falls]

30. Lets see: He's not a billionaire, he's not even a half assed buisnessman, looking at the three ...

kids in the WH, he's at best 2/5's a good dad, he's not a general, he's not a good wall contractor, he's not a statesman, he's definitely not a President, now he's not a doctor.

I hope he makes a great prisoner after Jan 20, 2021.

[LaMouffette]

35. Laura Ingraham says she'd be happy to volunteer to test hydroxychloroquine!

Here's what she says in an article in the Hill:

Fox News's Laura Ingraham on Thursday said she'd be willing to volunteer to test whether hydroxychloroquine, a drug used on malaria and arthritis patients, could help with the coronavirus.

Ingraham on her show said a controlled 2,000-patient study "could be organized pretty quickly" given the high stakes.

"I have a feeling given the fact that most of the countries are locked down right now, the controlled study of 2,000 patients could be organized pretty quickly, given what is at stake here," Ingraham said. "I'll happily volunteer. If you're looking for volunteers, I'll volunteer."

In light of the information from the OP in this thread, I say we take her up on her offer!


[link:https://thehill.com/homenews/media/488614-laura-ingraham-on-testing-anti-malaria-drug-for-coronavirus-ill-happily|

[keithbvadu2]

39. Go down Trump's list of folks who bought his MAGA hats.

Go down Trump's list of folks who bought his MAGA hats.

[magicarpet]

38. More like,...

What happens when a lying buffoon and fucking fool hopes to render medical advise that might save lives with off label drugs. As is being done in Japan, South Korea, China, France, Britain, and Germany to save COVID-19 patients on their death beds.

[catchnrelease]

40. People buying aquarium fish meds

Some places are selling chloroquine phosphate which is apparently used in treating aquarium fish, and people are already buying it at raised prices to use for the corona virus. It is not approved for use in humans, but if people panic they will try using this stuff and worse.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

41. I'm sure there will be a U.S. underground black market for this stuff soon.

KY.........