'Miracle' malaria drug touted by Trump saved me from coronavirus, claim Americans: Infected patients across US say hydroxychloroquine helped them recover – despite experts' insistence evidence of its effectiveness is slim

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 3/23/20 | Valerie Edwards

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So, for a 50% chance of croaking, I would have to eat 93kg.

Doesn’t seem right. I did crunch the #s again.

Pls try to invalidate my #s. I do abuse chocolate.

[MHGinTN]

Thanks for the link ... hope the rats used were not Carles River variety. Seriously though, I did not see the half-life stat, but I did read it quickly.

[MHGinTN]

At 74, I am an ice creamaholic.

[MHGinTN]

Current successful dosing is a bolus 400mg bid P.O. x 1 then 200mg bid p.o. x 5, plus a Zpak. I am trying to fins the South Korean prophylaxis dosing which worked so well with them.

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Half-life is from the Wiki article.

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DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION
One PLAQUENIL tablet contains 200 mg of hydroxychloroquine sulfate, which is equivalent to 155 mg base.
Take PLAQUENIL with a meal or a glass of milk.
Malaria
Treatment Of Uncomplicated Malaria
Adults
800 mg (620 mg base) followed by 400 mg (310 mg base) at 6 hours, 24 hours and 48 hours after the initial dose (total 2000 mg hydroxychloroquine sulfate or 1550 mg base).
The incidence of retinopathy has been reported to be higher when this maintenance dose is exceeded.

Proposed Tx (blind)/prophylaxis for ChiComVirus is the above followed by 400 mg po q 2 wk

[Brown Deer]

Arizona man dies after taking chloroquine for coronavirus

March 23 (Reuters) - An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

The couple, in their 60s, experienced immediate distress after swallowing the drug, an additive used at aquariums to clean fish tanks, according to Banner Health Hospital in Phoenix.

Chloroquine phosphate shares the same active ingredient as malaria drugs that President Trump has touted as possibly effective against COVID-19, the potentially life-threatening disease caused by the coronavirus.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted about the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, saying it had "a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine."

The nation's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, played down that claim, saying the therapy must be tested to assure its safety and efficacy.

"Chloroquine, a malaria medication, should not be ingested to treat or prevent this virus," Banner Health said in a statement on Monday.

The new coronavirus, which causes the highly contagious COVID-19 respiratory illness, emerged in December in Wuhan, China and has spread throughout the world.

There are currently no vaccines or treatments approved for the disease, but researchers are studying existing treatments and working on experimental ones. At the moment, most patients can only receive supportive care.

"Given the uncertainty around COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medicating is not the way to do so," said Dr. Daniel Brooks, Banner Poison and Drug Information Center medical director.

Brooks urged the medical community to not prescribe chloroquine medication to any non-hospitalized patients.

"The last thing that we want right now is to inundate our emergency departments with patients who believe they found a vague and risky solution that could potentially jeopardize their health."

[MHGinTN]

How long has HCQ been used for prophylaxis in Malaria? How many millions of doses have been taken without complication?

Follow the money ., slow walking this CUR is evil greed at its heart.

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Bookmarked for later history chapter composition.

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6144015101001#sp=show-clips

[Ancesthntr]

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.

Trump is Patton, and wants to attack NOW with everything we have. Fauci is Montgomery, and wants to wait and wait and wait for the perfect time and place to fight...while people and the economy are dying.

[Ancesthntr]

It does, in fact, spread faster than the flu.

It does not, in fact, have an approved or available vaccine.

That is not hysteria, it is looking reality in the face.

I am also a big advocate of hydroxychloroquine, yes as a preventative as well as a cure. My mother is now not so sorry about her RA, since her treatment is this drug. We should AT LEAST give it to the healthcare workers involved in treating CV patients as a preventative (which would be a great test of its effectiveness, one the should even satisfy that idiot, Fauci.