From what I can google, typical dosage of quinine for malaria would be at least 500mg every 8 hours. If you drink 6 liters of tonic water every 8 hours you’ll have more to worry about than coronavirus. What I don’t understand is why they haven’t started treating Covid with chloroquine yet—it’s cheap and plentiful and has minimal side effects. Are desperate doctors in overwhelmed ICUs really holding off just because it would be off-label?
From what I can google, typical dosage of quinine for malaria would be at least 500mg every 8 hours. If you drink 6 liters of tonic water every 8 hours you’ll have more to worry about than coronavirus. What I don’t understand is why they haven’t started treating Covid with chloroquine yet—it’s cheap and plentiful and has minimal side effects. Are desperate doctors in overwhelmed ICUs really holding off just because it would be off-label?