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To: SeekAndFind
“When the risk of death outweighs the risk of the drug, then it is appropriate to try the drug”

I don't get it. This drug has been used for years for people with chronic conditions requiring long-term use, and it has had a good safety profile. But suddenly the short-term use (5-10 days) recommended for CV treatment is fraught with danger.

All prescription drugs have contra-indications and potential harmful side-effects, but all of a sudden HCQ is treated as almost uniquely risky.
4 posted on 05/09/2020 11:51:23 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle
It could be a difference in dosage.
The existing dose may be 50mg twice a day, while the new one calls for 250mg three times daily.
6 posted on 05/09/2020 12:05:47 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Steve_Seattle

HCQ, Z-Pak & Zinc do not produce highway robbery profits for Big Pharma and hence no kickbacks to Dr.’s & hospitals. Dangerous drugs are prescribed all the time. Over 125,00o deaths per year and between 1.5 million to 2.7 million hospitalizations per year are caused by on label use of “properly prescribed” drugs (these numbers do not include overdoses) in the United States. The “prissiness” about HCQ safety is mostly about money and animus toward Trump in the medical-pharmaceutical cartel.


9 posted on 05/09/2020 12:18:42 PM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Has it ever occurred to us that there may be a large group of people who do not want the drug to be a solution for the virus? There are those who benefit from the pandemic.(like the RATS). Be prepared for a weaponized solution.


11 posted on 05/09/2020 12:39:58 PM PDT by 353FMG (Boycott China or be destroyed.)
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To: Steve_Seattle

It was reasonable to be skeptical of the “Zelenko Protocol” a few weeks ago, before the good doctor posted his dosing regimen for all to see.

He’s using it early, at a dose that lupus patients tolerate for lifetime, daily use, so it’s logical to assume, absent some weird effect of the CCP Virus, that it would be no more harmful for COVID patients.

The media enthusiastically reports use of high-dose “hail mary” treatments for very sick patients as evidence that HCQ “doesn’t work” or is “dangerous”. Their agenda is transparent, and has moved from being annoying, to causing actual harm.

And now, Zelenko and other are reporting some clearly positive results, with no complications from the drug regimen, and the media are silent. Do we have the standard of proof we would all like? No, not yet but in an emergent situation you have to go with the best you have on hand, and monitor your outcomes carefully “on the fly”.


13 posted on 05/09/2020 12:46:43 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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