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Chloroquine ’ll not make COVID-19 patients worse, it works —Dr Ajayi
But the US is a funny place when it comes to medical treatment. There are some drugs used in Europe that you cannot use in the US because every drug must be tested in the US and certified usable and because of the legal implications. Doctors will run away from using a drug that they know is effective even if they believe in it. If it is used and it gets to the court, they will say is it licensed by FDA to use it, if it is not licensed, you are guilty, even if you had saved a patient.
We can easily give a subset of people chloroquine so that we can block the transmission but rather, we say we should do social distancing and partial lockdown. Fine, people now stay at home. But have we considered that this cannot work for us?
But we can afford chloroquine. Two things: if it works, we save money and lives. If it does not work, we have not lost anything because it will not do any damage to anybody.
Because the virus could be in the throat for some time before going into the respiratory system, having warm saline gargle after going out will also be helpful.