Pff. They had this headline written the night PDJT called praised Hydroxychloroquine.
I wouldn’t believe AP if they told me water is wet.
Some places are holding it back for only the most critical patients.
It works best when given early, if you wait until they are on a ventilator, it’s too late.
A lot of treatment with this was/is at the very end for “compassionate care”.
The key is when it is being given and what regimen is being used.
AP is All Propaganda and part of the Delusional Lying Left, so the presumption is they are Lying. And don’t forget, they are part of the Democrat Reelection Committee and .
The Presumption they are lying can be rebutted by Clear and Convincing evidence they accidentally told the truth
the media doesn’t ever talk about Bill Gates or ChiComs’ financial stake in a different treatment
Considering they all got wee weed up about a $35-450 investment by Trump from a mutual fund, they are lying by omission.
Lies by omission are lies
Stalinists lie. Always
I don’t believe a word of this article - fake news!
BS.
If it didn’t work then Italy, Spain, Japan, India and the rest of the nations In the world wouldn’t have made it their first go to drug.
And you can’t tell me they’re using it because Trump touted it.
Fake news.
Now it’s NOT a cure. It doesn’t work with all people and, like cold medicine, it only alleviates symptoms until the body’s natural defenses can kick the virus out. It’s a TREATMENT. But it’s about the only treatment drug there is.
No Z pack or zinc too?
Don’t trust any source that doesn’t give you the raw data.
You just don’t know what they were studying, who they studied it on, when the drug was administered, to whom, how far in disease progression were they etc?
I’d imagine a VA hospital might have a large number of very sick people with comorbidities - but it’s just a guess. And if they waited until people were on ventilators to administer the drugs, then it was probably too late. I’m not saying the drug absolutely works, or works in all cases. But there is just too much data on the positive side to ignore.
AFAIK the study in Brazil involved very sick, infirm people.
It seems like some in the media are rooting for the drug to fail... for whatever reasons. Maybe because if the drug works, Trump will be hailed as a hero for promoting it. Meanwhile I think it is Novartis that is running a large Phase 3 clinical trial. That should provide more definitive data.
Sorry, but if it comes from the NYT, AP, the Guardian, or Reuters, I believe it as much as I believe an Obama statement.
There’s no way an off-patent medication like hydroxychloroquine could ever be considered “safe and effective”.
Since there are no massive profits to be made from it, hydroxychloroquine is not safe for the Pharmaceutical industry’s profit margin, and it is certainly not an effective way to come up with loads of cash for lobbyists and political contributions, not to mention Mainstream media advertising.
Have they forgotten about the Dem congress woman who praised Trump for the drugs when she recovered?
A Dr on the frontline said he sees minimal impact if not given in early stages. Right now people arent going to the hospital for fear of catching so the people that do come in are in late stages.
It makes sense. You need it in the beginning to stop the RNA from replicating.
After that you need Genentech’s drug to stop the cytokine storm..and that drug is hard to get.
From what I have read, it depends on how soon in the progress of the illness it is taken. If it isn’t started at the earliest point, it isn’t as effective.
Cuomo in NYC denied it until someone was in such bad shape that they need to be hospitalized. Way too late and the “side effects then experienced” could possibly be attributed to the virus, not the drug.
There is a big political fight going on over money and control of the future, with us citizens unimportant and forgotten.
“versus standard care”
Thus far, administration of the drug seems mostly limited to the more severe cases. How severe were the symptoms of the population receiving “standard care”? Is this an apples-to-apples comparison?
Researchers did not track side effects, but noted hints that hydroxychloroquine might have damaged other organs.
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That sounds scientific.
Reports have already shown that once they are on a ventilator it is too late for the drugs. They have to be taken as soon as symptoms are seen.
I’ll wait for the Babylon Bee report on it, probably will be more factual.
"Outcomes of hydroxychloroquine usage in United States veterans hospitalized with Covid-19"
- see https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.16.20065920v1.full.pdf