EXACTLY....my 94 yr old MIL currently in hospital with Covid is being given dexemethisone (sp) and remdisivir...NOT HCQ.
RE: EXACTLY....my 94 yr old MIL currently in hospital with Covid is being given dexemethisone (sp) and remdisivir...NOT HCQ.
HCQ is intended to be given during the first 5 to 6 days after a confirmed positive test, when early symptoms have started to manifest. The intent is to PREVENT hospitalization.
After a patient is serious enough to need hospitalization, HCQ’s effectiveness is mixed.
The real failure in adopting HCQ + Zinc as a therapeutic treatment in the US was relying on a centralized bureaucracy (CDC, FDA) to determine its effectivity top-down rather than on a bottom-up analysis based on complex systems theory.
In bottom-up approaches medical practitioners are able to explore a wide range potential treatments for a disease on a small number of participants to reduce risk. The use of HCQ + Zinc was actually recommended by the NIH as a therapy for earlier SARS-2 epidemics and it was this literature that lead Dr. Vladimir Zelenko to experiment with it on his patients. If he had not seen any benefit he would have simply discontinued prescribing it and no one would ever heard of him just as biological solutions that fail die off from natural selection.
Because he found success he told other doctors and their experience spread word of mouth to demonstrate its safety and effectiveness without the need for the RCT formality. This uses parallel search in real time to solve a medical problem which is a much more adaptively efficient strategy when dealing with complex systems.
I know of a 90 year-old woman who was on a ventilator at a hospital that is part of the largest medical system in Houston. They told her family that there was nothing else they could do for her.
The family ordered an ambulance to take her to the MD Anderson emergency room where she was treated with the hydroxychloriquine cocktail.
She made a full recovery. HCQ works, even at late stages of treatment.
She’s lucky, read post 40. That happened about two weeks ago.