Its a poor comparison to compare chemo to taking malaria drugs for CV19. Chemo is at least approved, and has shown to be effective. Doctors from the beginning were saying that so far tests for the drug have had very limited results in fighting CV19, and that there needed to be more testing before it is approved.
I was not comparing the two. The point I was making was that everyday people take medicines that do damage to their bodies for the purpose of fighting a disease. Also, I don't quite understand the hang-up about the drug not being approved for use against COVid-19. There are dozens of drugs that are prescribed for off-label uses and HC was approved for use in 1955. There are millions prescribed the drug every year just in the US. The dangers and side effects are well-known. Now, yes it needs more study, and I believe that is what most studies and criticisms conclude, but in the meantime I'm on the side of letting doctors decide how to best treat their patients because they are the one's that will find what really works through trial and error. There are also other drugs that are being used as a treatment, but there does not seem to be such a backlash against them., nor were they approved to fight the disease either. Studies are nice when we have the time to go through all the protocols, labs tests, animal and human subject tests, etc, but treatments need to be devised because the economic devastation caused by the societal shutdown is only getting worse. The cost of a barrel of oil was fell below zero today. Now I am not a fan of big oil corporations, Saudi sheiks, or Russian oligarchs, but that is not good.