Hydroxychloroquine/zithromax/zinc seems to work best when the treatment is instituted as soon as a person develops fever and cough. If treatment is delayed until test results return or when the patient has developed shortness of breath and pnemonitis, it is less likely to be effective. Once there is an actual pneumonia from Covid-19, the prognosis is very guarded. Best to consult with your physician as soon as you develop fever and cough. Don’t wait.
When this is over, the Democrat governors must be held accountable for their bizarre decrees that have restricted the timely prescription of hydroxychoroquine by practicing physicians.
RE: Hydroxychloroquine/zithromax/zinc seems to work best when the treatment is instituted as soon as a person develops fever and cough. If treatment is delayed until test results return or when the patient has developed shortness of breath and pnemonitis, it is less likely to be effective.
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I am re-posting an excellent and informative post made by another astute and well-informed FReeper.
Using HCQ early is analogous to putting out a frying pan fire. If you’ve got burning grease in a frying pan, dumping a box of baking soda on it will put it out cheaply, safely, completely and almost instantly.
However if you’ve got a whole kitchen on fire, baking soda will be useless.
The four stages of COVID-19 infection are:
* Primary Viremia
* Secondary Viremia
* SARS/Pneumonia and
* Cytokine Storm/Septic Shock/Death.
HCQ works in the Primary Viremia stage, when the virus is in your nose and throat and just beginning to get into the bloodstream. You must apply HCQ + Azithromycin + Zinc as soon as a positive diagnosis is established and symptoms appear ( within 5 days of such observation as per Dr. Vladimir Zelenko ).
HCQ might provide some benefit in Secondary Viremia, when the virus has traveled via the bloodstream and just begun to invade the lungs, though you’ve got to catch it quick.
After your immune system goes into hyper-inflammatory mode and starts destroying lung tissue, HCQ will do little or nothing.
Nobody who pioneered the use of HCQ (e.g. Zelenko and Raoult) ever said it was for critical ill people. And certainly not people who’ve been intubated. That’s way too late. (Putting baking soda on a house afire.) Those who used it on desperately sick people (e.g. the Veterans Administration Study) were killing them with overdose and over-venting.
It would appear that if all nursing home residents in New York and New Jersey were given Hydroxychloroquine/zithromax/zinc prophylactically the death toll would have been a small fraction of the current number. Can you say class action lawsuit.