Read the original paper. Their contention is they proved the virus has trouble entering cells treated in advance with the drug. That is never going to be the case clinically EXCEPT in people who were taking it prior to exposure. We now have ten days of people who were taking it after they were ill and all the people who were seriulsy ill or dead who were taking it prior. With a computer and access I could write this paper in a half hour. Where is it? It is hiding because somebody is still sitting on two tons of drug they are going to have to eat when people discover it doesn’t work.
And all the reports from doctors who have had success treating the infected with it?
wouldnt this lead credence to using it as a preventative...(not that they should until much more research is done)
“Read the original paper. Their contention is they proved the virus has trouble entering cells treated in advance with the drug. That is never going to be the case clinically EXCEPT in people who were taking it prior to exposure. We now have ten days of people who were taking it after they were ill and all the people who were seriulsy ill or dead who were taking it prior. With a computer and access I could write this paper in a half hour. Where is it? It is hiding because somebody is still sitting on two tons of drug they are going to have to eat when people discover it doesn’t work.”
Are you forgetting that during an active infection the virus is still trying to replicate and invade new cells? If you prevent the virus from invading new cells then, even though you are infected, the virus can no longer replicate and you get over the disease.
“we now have ten days of people who were taking it after they were ill and all the people who were seriulsy ill or dead who were taking it prior.”
What are your sources that indicate all people who were on a regimen of hydroxychloroquine paired with azithromycin and/or zinc sulfate have died?
‘They’ have already discovered that IT DOES WORK.
It has already been studied in Australia and found to help, as well as other countries.
One could argue that correlation does not mean causality, but when multiple doctors and countries try the same combination and seemingly nothing else being different, it starts to mean it is causality.
This is a serious mis-reading of the original study and leads to very damaging and dangerous conclusion.
Chloroquine has and is still emerging as one of the most effective treatments for COV-19.
Emotions for or against the efficacy of Chloroquine must be eliminated from an objective examination.
A wealth of solid medical scrutiny attests to the effectiveness of Chloroquine.
Here is the direct quotation from the study in question:
Conclusion
Chloroquine, a relatively safe, effective and cheap drug used for treating many human diseases including malaria, amoebiosis and human immunodeficiency virus is effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. The fact that the drug has significant inhibitory antiviral effect when the susceptible cells were treated either prior to or after infection suggests a possible prophylactic and therapeutic use.
Stop wasting your time.
You can’t explain it to these people. And, I have to say, in an “n of one” trial, I had good luck with HCQ + Kaletra this week.