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Title: How false hope spread about hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 — and the consequences that followed
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Published: Apr 13, 2020
Author: Elyse Samuels and Image without a capti
Post Date: 2020-04-13 13:45:06 by Gatlin
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How false hope spread about Hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19
and the consequences that followed

Even before Trump started talking about the drugs, studies abroad sparked interest in them as a potential cure. News about the drugs spread quickly online, percolated to the media and the White House.

Scientists have since pointed to major flaws in those original studies and say there is a lack of reliable data on the drugs. Experts warn about the dangerous consequences of over-promoting a drug with unknown efficacy: Shortages of hydroxychloroquine have already occurred, depriving lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients of access to it. Doctors say some patients could die of side effects. Other potential treatments for covid-19 could get overlooked with so much concentration on one option.

The Fact Checker video team has reconstructed how the claim spread online and illustrates the troubling consequences of such misleading hope in the drugs.

The Facts

Conversation around hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as potential treatments for covid-19 started in China in late January. According to Kate Starbird of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, tweets from media organizations — including Chinese state outlets — and investors highlighted past studies in which the medications were tested as cures for severe acute respiratory syndrome. (The 2005 tests never made it to human trials.) They also pointed to statements from the coronavirus research center in Wuhan, China, suggesting the drugs could be used to fight covid-19.

Renée DiResta, technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, found similar trends on Facebook and Instagram in February. The number of total posts and interactions increased, and Internet speculation spread beyond China to Nigeria, Vietnam and France.

A large portion of activity online at the end of February and early March appeared in French and centered on a study published by French researcher and doctor Didier Raoult.

The spread in the U.S.

Raoult’s findings helped bring the theory …

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#1. To: Gatlin (#0) (Edited)

I read the article. No where does it say that hydroxychloroquine is known to not be effective against Covid-19. All it says is that previous studies showing it's effectiveness were flawed, and it does say studies in mice showed it was not effective against SARS.

Going from "is not proven effective" to "is not effective" is a leap, and so is the statement that it is "false hope". "Hope" by definition is not the same as "certainty".

As for following the lead of scientists which the author states is important in an epidemic, that is preferred but in an epidemic, when faced with death, sometimes waiting on scientists to prove things is not an option. If someone facing death wants to wait for the FDA to approve treatments before trying them, fine. That's their choice.

There are plenty of Trump hating people that downplay the drug simply out of spite for Trump. From the tone of the article, it sounds like that author is one of those anti-Trump types.

Pinguinite  posted on  2020-04-13   16:08:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Gatlin (#0)

Even before Trump started talking about the drugs, studies abroad sparked interest in them as a potential cure.

Well, there's the problem. No one ever claimed those drugs were a cure. They alleviate the symptoms of the virus and can shorten the time a person is sick.

That's all they do.

misterwhite  posted on  2020-04-13   17:30:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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