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They tried to treat the disease with doses of aspirin ranging from 8g per day to 30g per day. But they did not realize it was a blood thinner and that these extreme doses caused damaged blood vessels in the lungs to leak fluids, filling the lungs and killing the patients. This may well have caused more deaths than the Influenza itself.
Today a normal adult maximum dose of Aspirin is 3g per day.
Chloroquine phosphate is another such killer drug. It is a detergent like Tide Pods, it is used for aquarium cleaner, and when administered as medicine the dose is carefully calculated based on body weight and it is taken only ONCE PER WEEK.
That's why the arthritis drug Hydroxychloroquine sulfate is of so much interest. Not dangerous, 75 years of experience in treating humans and it happens to be antiviral. Pair it up with a good antibiotic for the bacteria that always seem to find people with respiratory difficulties, and you have a winner.
Details matter.