Along with other topics in his bunker reports, Joe Biden weighed in on President Trump’s prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine. “It’s like saying maybe if you inject Clorox into your blood it may cure you.”
“Hydroxychloroquine” does contain all the letters in “Clorox,” but no serious medical person would equate the two. And though there are studies that fail to find hydroxychloroquine to be effective in combating COVID19, there are others that do. For example, the Henry Ford Health System recently published a peer-reviewed study of over 2,500 patients. Dr. Steven Kalkanis, Chief Academic Officer of the Henry Ford Health System, said, “Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives…the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.” Of course, one study does not end the debate and we may find that, indeed, hydroxychloroquine is an ineffective therapy for COVID19. On the other hand, hydroxychloroquine may become a standard (and cheap) part of the COVID19-fighting toolbox.
