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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/82/8/editorial30804html...
every dog, cat and horse that is on heartworm medication is already using it
Prevent Senior in Brazil, an health operator with mosts of its patients on risk groups (60+ yo) are using hydroxychloroquine on all its COVID-19 patients with tremendous success. Right now I choose to believe on MD in front line rather then in Health Societies, FDA, WHO and those bureaucrats who let the virus spread all around due to its incompetence
Do you have a reference for this?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If there was any effect of this drug on COVID-19, it was minimal. Hydroxychloroquine, whose toxicity is far lower, may be safer than chloroquine. But that doesn't matter if the drugs are ineffective." What's political about that? The whole idea that if there were a simple and cheap cure that it would be politicized to the point where it won't see widespread application is ridiculous.
> What's political about that? Then why does the title say that Hydroxychloroquine "probably" isn't the answer? It either works or it doesn't. If the drugs are ineffective just say so. Why beat around the bush with a "probably"?
Prevent Senior in Brazil, an health operator with mosts of its patients on risk groups (60+ yo) are using hydroxychloroquine on all its COVID-19 patients with tremendous success. Right now I choose to believe on MD in front line rather then in Health Societies, FDA, WHO and those bureaucrats who let the virus spread all around due to its incompetence
Has anyone noticed that the CDC’s reported deaths by week from ordinary flu and pneumonia have been plummeting while COVID-19 death rise? They are down from the normal 4.5k+ per week during this period to around 2.3k per week and they are falling parabolically as COVID-19 expands. What could cause this?
an innocent answer, of course, is that physical distancing works.
Prevent Senior in Brazil, an health operator with mosts of its patients on risk groups (60+ yo) are using hydroxychloroquine on all its COVID-19 patients with tremendous success. Right now I choose to believe on MD in front line rather then in Health Societies, FDA, WHO and those bureaucrats who let the virus spread all around due to its incompetence
Not to diminish the possible successes, but without a randomized control trial, there is no way the success can reliably be attributed to the medications. That's not to say they should stop prescribing it, simply due to lack of formal trials. But the perceived benefits should not be taken at face value, yet.
That's non-sense, if everyone that had cancer got cured by a miracle drug, would you still demand a randomized control trial?
Collectively, we need to get over the idea of all-or-nothing solutions to Coronavirus. We're not going to wake up one day with a "cure" for COVID-19. No one in the medical field actually expects Hydroxychloroquine to produce miraculous recoveries at this point. The idea is that any treatment that slows the progress of the infection will also buy the patient's immune system more time to fight the infection. If we can…
Is there any serious trial that shows that Hydroxychloroquine has any effect at all?
Has anyone noticed that the CDC’s reported deaths by week from ordinary flu and pneumonia have been plummeting while COVID-19 death rise? They are down from the normal 4.5k+ per week during this period to around 2.3k per week and they are falling parabolically as COVID-19 expands. What could cause this?
Collectively, we need to get over the idea of all-or-nothing solutions to Coronavirus. We're not going to wake up one day with a "cure" for COVID-19. No one in the medical field actually expects Hydroxychloroquine to produce miraculous recoveries at this point. The idea is that any treatment that slows the progress of the infection will also buy the patient's immune system more time to fight the infection. If we can…
> The idea is that any treatment that slows the progress of the infection will also buy the patient's immune system more time to fight the infection. Is there any serious trial that shows that Hydroxychloroquine has any effect at all?