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    Hydroxychloroquine Should Be Available Over the Counter

    It is time to take the bull by the horns to conquer the Wuhan virus. Drastic action is necessary, like on December 8, 1941 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

    President Trump should order immediate public access to hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) by making the medication available over-the-counter (OTC). Liberals have interfered with public access to this medication for COVID-19 through the old-fashioned route of requiring a prescription and then having a pharmacist fill or reject the prescription.

    Millions of Americans do not visit physicians, and cannot obtain a prescription for HCQ if they did. Even if you have been exposed to COVID-19, you cannot obtain a prescription for HCQ in most states because regulators prohibit dispensing it without a positive test result, which typically cannot be obtained until late in the progression of the disease.

    No one credibly doubts that HCQ is safe, and safer than many medications currently available OTC. No one credibly doubts the dozens of studies showing that early use of HCQ, pre-exposure and immediately after exposure to COVID, has helped many overcome this dreaded disease.
    Hydroxychloroquine Should Be Available Over the Counter

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    If too many people use that drug it seems likely that the result will be strains of the virus that are highly resistent to it. The same happens when too many people use antibiotics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    If too many people use that drug it seems likely that the result will be strains of the virus that are highly resistent to it. The same happens when too many people use antibiotics.
    No. HCQ is only used as a zinc ionophore, it opens the cell wall to allow zinc entrance, which then disables the virus. No resistance develops.

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    I think it would be better to just allow tonic water to be bottled with sufficient quinine, just pick up a six pack at the store.

    Quinine was largely banned with the advent of "modern medicine", it has been used safely for centuries for many purposes.

    "The Popular Dose with Doctors": Quinine and the American Civil War

    In 1862, the second year of the American Civil War, Southerners took satisfaction in knowing that invading Union army troops would succumb to tropical diseases endemic to the South's bayous, swamps, and coastal regions. Just wait until summer, Southern newspapers predicted.

    The first test of this theory came in April 1862 in Shiloh, Tennessee, where Union General William T. Sherman's forces met the enemy in a bloody battle. Before and after the fight, typhoid, diarrhea, scurvy, and the fevers associated with malarial diseases ravaged troops on both sides. One physician wrote, "The pestilential atmosphere of the country about Shiloh was producing an amount of sickness almost without parallel in the history of the war." In May, Sherman mustered only half of his 10,000 troops because the other half were sick.
    An interesting read if you like history..

    "The Popular Dose with Doctors": Quinine and the American Civil War | Science History Institute

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