Pill-Popping Bolsonaro Sows Covid Chaos at Brazil's Hospitals

[Judi Lynn]

By Andrew Rosati, Murilo Fagundes, and Simone Preissler Iglesias
July 10, 2020, 9:01 AM CDT

Brazil’s public hospital doctors say they’re being pressured into handing out hydroxychloroquine by both patients and colleagues, even as a debate rages over its efficacy and safety.

“I was called in several times to stop fights,” said Joao Assy, an infectious disease specialist in Santarem, a coastal city in the hard-hit northern state of Para. He and fellow doctors circulated a petition urging medical professionals in the city not to prescribe hydroxychloroquine and its sister drug, chloroquine. But some colleagues disagreed strongly, and quarrels with his patients turned ugly.

Jair Bolsonaro’s recent Covid-19 diagnosis is only adding to the confusion, with the president popping a pill in a social media video this week and asking his followers: “I believe in hydroxychloroquine. Do you?” As the virus has spread, the Bolsonaro administration has imported millions of doses, ramped up local production and shipped batches across Brazil.

According to a recent survey by the Sao Paulo medical association, nearly half of almost 2,000 doctors interviewed across the country said they’ve also felt pressured to administer treatments unbacked by scientific evidence.

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1. WTF is up with RW'er's love affair with hydroxychloroquine?

That drug was proven largely ineffective, may only be of minimal if any benefit, and far too risky. Hydroxycholorquine actually would cure corona if taken in doses that would IMMEDIATELY KILL THE PATIENT!!! It's been discontinued by all practitioners I know, who were dubious about prescribing it to start with.
The tolerated doses of Hydroxy block some of the cell receptors that corona attaches itself to but not a high percentage. Again, the actual effective dose is LETHAL amounts. But not enough to make any difference whether your own immune system takes care of it or not.