Posted on 04/02/2020 11:28:40 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
An international poll of more than 6,000 doctors released Thursday found that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was the most highly rated treatment for the novel coronavirus.
The survey conducted by Sermo, a global health care polling company, of 6,227 physicians in 30 countries found that 37% of those treating COVID-19 patients rated hydroxychloroquine as the most effective therapy from a list of 15 options.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave chloroquine and its next-generation derivative, hydroxychloroquine, emergency-use authorization Monday for treating the novel coronavirus, although the drug was already being used off-label by some doctors and hospitals for COVID-19 patients.
The survey also found that the most commonly prescribed treatments are analgesics (56%), azithromycin (41%) and hydroxychloroquine (33%).
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Thanks!
Well hush my mouth. Be terrible if Trump got some well deserved credit.
Agreed- it’s absolutely sick that we’re farting around waiting waiting waiting- while good people are dying from this virus-
THIS NEEDS TO BE ANSWERED WITH CHARGES OF MURDER. Denying effective care to patients that need it based on flimsy assumptions goes to gross negligence and someone who lost a love one after this order needs to bring it to court and seek redress and an injunction to stop this unlawful order.
They are keeping abortion mills open somehow.. find a court.
That is my beef with the wearing of masks. I have heard that the doctors told the public that masks wouldn’t stop the virus and that the doctors would need those scarce masks. So just stay six feet apart.
Well in New York City people take elevators, trains, buses and get pushed together for any number of reasons. It is impossible to stay at least six feet apart. I think if they had said wear simple masks including scarfs and stay six feet apart the rate of disease would have been far lower in the city early on. Their assumption was that the average American was too dumb to figure out using both masks and 6 feet of separation. That is life killing arrogance.
I agree totally that the arrogance of govt and of others who fail to inform and trust has cost us lives.
Richard Dawson:”Name a part of the telephone”
Contestant: “The bottom part”
“Stupid Game Show Answers” on youtube is one of my favorite pasttimes!
You got the Trump pills? Lucky dog.
I’d get some zinc too and look at Dr. Zelenko’s dosage.
‘Outside the U.S., hydroxychloroquine was equally used for diagnosed patients with mild to severe symptoms whereas in the U.S. it was most commonly used for high risk diagnosed patients, the survey found.
I assume that means the US is using it most often AFTER the case becomes more severe. I’m actually not sure if I’m interpreting that correctly.’
That is an EXCELLENT point!
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