NY Doctor says his hospital already using HydroxyChloroquine for coronavirus patients and have had ZERO deaths

The FDA has to approve drugs for specific use and indicates that use for those drugs; technically Covid19 is not an indicated use for hydroxychloroquine. The FDA wanted to get stuffy about it, being “process people” driven and Trump short circuited that response.

I have a feeling as a health care worker, I’m going to be put on the stuff prophylactically.

They can insert a drain into the space between the inner PLEURAL lining of the rib cage and the lungs themselves, called the PLEURAL cavity if necessary for certain conditions but there are no good procedures for taking out fluids that collect in the inner lungs tissues(or interstitial/intercellure tissues and aveolar sacs. A breathing tube can help with exchange of gasses and removal of gook that collect in the main bronchial stems but suctioning can’t get at the interstitial spaces in the lower and edge parts of the lungs and the aveolar sacs become clogged and useless and the lungs thicken and harden with dense infiltrates and the lungs lose elasticity and gaseous exchange space, parts become ischemic and die off and begin to scar. Even if there is recovery, a person can be left with diminished lung capacity because of the scarring and loss of aveolar space needed for good gas exchange.

The reason for the stories for the sudden collapses and die offs you hear about; the patient has probably already been suffering from the pneumonia for a time and when they start exerting themselves, their need for increased o2/co2 goes up but their inflamed lungs can’t get the o2 needed. It’s instant suffocation from general hypoxia or heart attack from general low o2. The heart is already ischemic because of the issue with the lungs and the person sometimes just goes into cardiac arrest and dies!

The deaths are caused by fluid in between the air sacs and the blood vessels that take up the oxygen. The virus damages the membrane that the air sac is made of, it swells, and it’s the fluid choking off the air cells inside the membrane people are talking about.

Actually, the patients treated by Raoult had advanced disease.

If Plaquenil works, it has a dual antiviral-anti-inflammatory effect. It should not be used for prevention a) because you would have to take it for at least 8 weeks if not longer and b) if everybody did that, we would run out in a week or so.

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