# Legality of Nevada malaria treatment ban **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 25, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247 "2020-03-25T12:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/121 "2020-04-22T20:56:15Z")
To be fair, there’s not much difference, aside from availability, between fictional quack cures and actual quack cures. Not that HCQ is a quack treatment, in case the forsynthia references get confusing in this thread. Just that HCQ is not the game changing super cure it’s been made out to be by some. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/122 "2020-04-22T21:06:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a study of hundreds of patients at US Veterans Health Administration medical centers. > > The study, which reviewed veterans’ medical charts, was posted Tuesday on [medrxiv.org](http://medrxiv.org), a pre-print server, meaning it was not peer reviewed or published in a medical journal. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia. In the study of 368 patients, 97 patients who took hydroxychloroquine had a 27.8% death rate. The 158 patients who did not take the drug had an 11.4% death rate. > > Researchers also looked at whether taking hydroxychloroquine or a combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, had an effect on whether a patient needed to go on a ventilator. “In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19,” the authors wrote. [https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/hydroxychloroquine-veterans-study/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/health/hydroxychloroquine-veterans-study/index.html) Here is the actual study: > **[Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized...](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1)** > > BACKGROUND Despite limited and conflicting data on the use of hydroxychloroquine in patients with Covid-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the emergency use of this drug when clinical trials are unavailable or infeasible.... Thus while quite negative news note that this was not a controlled study. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/123 "2020-04-24T03:24:12Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Elsewhere I suggested a concoction of bleach and gravel may be useful (on the that basis bleach kills germs, and rocks are natural). … I feel [partly vindicated](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/it-s-irresponsible-it-s-dangerous-experts-rip-trump-s-n1191246). You may leave your squirming public apologies for your excessive scepticism below. Banksiaman PS - I expect it will be a matter of a few days or a week at most before we are told that we may make some impact on the virus by throwing rocks at it. Also, virus mallets and bacterial tweezers will shortly be available for purchase on my website. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/124 "2020-04-24T12:31:52Z")
A sufficiently large and fast rock may even eliminate virus from multiple individuals. With just one rock! I am trademarking “Chicxulub”. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/125 "2020-04-25T07:23:24Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > A sufficiently large and fast rock may even eliminate virus from multiple individuals. With just one rock! I am trademarking “Chicxulub”. High-velocity Brussels sprouts work too. I’m devising a rapid-fire launcher. Stand back. Humanity is the virus. Asteroids are the cure. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/126 "2020-04-25T11:52:58Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Not true.:rolleyes: > > Are you stocking up on Forsythia? You totally should. Don’t forget Laetrile. That stuff rocks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2020, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247/127 "2020-04-26T03:49:52Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > Don’t forget Laetrile. That stuff rocks. > > 🙂 This message was brought to you by the Arizona Almond Grower’s Association. Remember, AAGA can! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legality-of-nevada-malaria-treatment-ban/850247.md?page=6)