# Chloroquine and the president **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics\ **Created:** [April 1, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/chloroquine-and-the-president/9578 "2020-04-01T18:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Sam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fudiabetes.org/sam/32/10595_2.png) [@Sam](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/chloroquine-and-the-president/9578/1 "2020-04-01T18:56:27Z")
I’ll only take them if I’m around mosquitos in which case they’ve been approved for decades. It’s a simple risk /reward Analysis… risk= essentially none, potential reward=not dying. Doesn’t take a brilliant evidence based clinician to pencil that one out. These are some of the most widely used drugs on the planet for reasons far less critical… it’s not like its some crazy concoction someone cooked up in a basement that nobody knows anything about the risks They weren’t the slightest bit controversial until the president expressed optimism about them. I see what’s going on here. Yes dr Birx and Fauci are brilliant—- and they weighed in and said they should be fast tracked, as did the fda… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/chloroquine-and-the-president/9578)._