@Purrrrrrr
This is one of the biggest scams & conspiracies of the pandemic, IMO.
There's no robust evidence for HCQ (or ivermectin etc) in treating or preventing COVID. This is why it is not recommended for use outside a trial setting.
I'm not saying this as a sheep/sleepwalker/worker drone who's repeating claims I've heard on "MSM", I'm saying this as someone who's spent 100+ hours evaluating these kinds of studies, in a work context.
At the start of the pandemic, huge amounts of money and resources were invested to set up trials investigating whether existing drugs could be used to treat COVID. This led to many cheap, off patent drugs being approved after efficacy was demonstrated, such as dexamethasone. In contrast, no evidence was found for HCQ (or ivermectin). If this was all some big scam by "big pharma" and "big science", there is no logical reason why they would set up these trials, or allow some cheap drugs to be approved by not others.
What has happened - is dodgy groups & individuals have made huge amounts of money and built a profile for themselves by fraudelently recommending these drugs - these include groups like AFD and FLCCC. They con people out of £££ for an appointment, and then hugely inflate the prices of these generic medications. In some cases, people never actually recieve the medications. Even worse, they push these same medications for long COVID & vaccine side effects as well as acute COVID.
This thread is hugely invested in unveiling consipiracies and scams, so I feel this should be something of interest.
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