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"And?..." Seriously? If there's panic buying (or prescribing, as did occur) then supplies are diminished if not depleted. WHAT GOOD IS THAT?

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As I said, the only people prescribing this stuff are actual physicians. You are assuming that a trained MD is going to start prescribing this stuff willy-nilly based on two sentences by the president? If that actually occurs, it's because they agree with him and are prescribing them as they see fit. There isn't "panic" in the equation. Its physicians trying to help their patients.

No but doctors do respond to pressure from patients who will respond to two sentences from the president.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4151257/

So to be clear, you believe there is a massive run on hydroxychloroquine because Trump mentioned it in a sentence or two as having promise in a press conference, and now thousands and thousands of patients are strong-arming their physicians into giving them prescriptions for it?

Even if that wasn't a ridiculous stretch and was actually happening, that's on the shitty doctors, not the president.

It is not a ridiculous stretch. Drug companies advertise directly to individuals on popular TV for exactly this reason.

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