Coronavirus 'game changer' drug hydroxychloroquine, used by Donald Trump, to be trialled by Australi

[Judi Lynn]

Coronavirus 'game changer' drug hydroxychloroquine, used by Donald Trump, to be trialled by Australian health workers
By the Specialist Reporting Team's Brad Ryan
Posted Yesterday, updated 52mminutes ago

More than 1,000 "high-risk" health workers are set to be given daily doses of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to test how well it can ward off coronavirus.

The drug has been at the centre of public debate since US President Donald Trump heralded it as a potential "game changer", and later revealed he was taking it himself, despite little evidence it prevents COVID-19.

"We're trying to move beyond opinion to generate rigorous scientific evidence," said rheumatologist Ian Wicks, from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Professor Wicks and fellow researcher Marc Pellegrini hope to recruit 2,250 "high-risk" frontline and allied health workers around Australia for the trial.

More:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-20/coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-trial-donald-trump-game-changer/12266398

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Should be quite a social experiment. Thank you Aussie front-liners for volunteering to

be Trump's Guinea pigs!

[agingdem]

3. high risk health workers...don't think so

elderly nursing home residents with compromised immune systems... the perfect "control group"...

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Weren't a couple of trials stopped

because more people who took the drug died than those who didn't take it?

[Doodley]

4. Trump prediction: "A lot of people are listening to me. And if the anti-Trumps did, perhaps we could

have saved many thousands of lives. Well, these highly respected scientists, who aren't playing political games are looking into it very seriously, because this is quite probably a game changer. And people will say we should have listened to Donald Trump because we would have saved many, many lives, and it is a shame that they didn't because Donald J Trump is often right about these things."

[dreamland]

5. They just don't learn

Studies were done and stopped in France and Brazil. Apparently, that's not good enough for them.

[uriel1972]

6. Australia is not immune...

seriously we can be as batshit crazy as the next industrialized country. After all we did give you Ken Ham... and no we won't take him back thank you.