Rav Asher Weiss on The Halachic View Regarding Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

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another question that i wanted to ask thereof is um in the beginning of the pandemic hydroxychloroquine was the suggested medication which there wasn't any knowledge on it but it was suggested that it would have a positive impact on the disease process and many people initially were given hydroxychloroquine subsequently it was withdrawn and it was decided that it wasn't appropriate medication for covert 19 now there's some suggestion in england that they're going to start a new trial of hydroxychloroquine to see if in fact perhaps there is some value in it the question to the rov is we were and we are as the rob said still very much at a point where we don't really understand this virus very well we certainly don't have an effective treatment against the virus is it appropriate to use a drug at a point during a pandemic when we are not really familiar with how the struggle work whether it will be effective we do know some of the known side effects of the drug and we do know that people did suffer from some of those side effects um is it appropriate to use a drug in such a circumstance i might have somewhat more medical knowledge than the average love but i need to make very clear i am not a doctor and i am very careful in stressing that point when people ask me for medical

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1. 0:00another question that i wanted to ask thereof is um in the beginning of the pandemic…
2. 0:31that they're going to start a new trial of hydroxychloroquine to see if in fact perhaps…
3. 1:02effects of the drug and we do know that people did suffer from some of those…
4. 1:32device i'm not qualified to give medical device medical advice but i do say one of…
5. 2:02very careful but one might ask well every new medication has a trial period and every…
6. 2:34trial period and usually we try out these medicines either on people but we have no…
7. 3:05and trying to be the first to come out with a cure or with a vaccine…
8. 3:35benefit would greatly outweigh the risk which means side effects would not be life-threatening they might…
9. 4:06causing terrible damage and we might be causing great benefit cheval thai is…

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