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I love Inida. It’s got problems galore but there are some really smart people there with an abundance of a rare human commodity called ‘Common Sense’.
Stories like this make the MSM-Democrats seethe with rage.
They know the tide will turn, that they’re on the wrong end of this, that they are too far out on the branch to climb back.
But hey, they’ve been putting themselves in that position continually since virtually the morning after PDJT was elected, and it hasn’t stopped them, hasn’t made them reconsider their plans, hasn’t taken any of them off the media (well, except Chris Matthews I guess). Hasn’t detracted from their credibility to any visible degree, which tells you something about their credibility I guess.
Trump is right again. Suck on it, TDS-ers.
From the reports I’ve seen, it doesn’t so much keep one from getting sick from the virus as much as it protects the person from it’s own gone-crazy immune system and the resulting cytokine storm, which is what kills most people.
So if you start taking it before the virus hits you, you will get mild flu like symptoms once the virus enters your body. Your immune system attacks the virus but hydroxychloroquine keeps it from overreacting. Instead it (the immune system) goes on mopping up the virus and in the process you’ve become immune!
If you start taking the med after the virus got to you and you’re at the beginning stages of the cytokine storm, apparently the med is able to corral the immune system sufficiently to keep it from killing you. Once you recover, again you’re immune.
So it’s really an incredible drug. It keeps you alive while being infected and in the process you become immune.
What that means is that we don’t have to wait for a vaccine.
It would be incredible news if this is the case. It would relegate C19 to a garden variety flu, perhaps even milder.
Several doctors here in the Philippines have died treating covid2, and my relative juat asked me the dosage, so thanks for the headsup from India.
dosage recommended seems to be the same dosage as I used 40 years ago when I worked in Africa to prevent malaria.
Asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in the care of suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19: 400 mg twice a day on Day one, followed by 400 mg once weekly for next seven weeks; to be taken with meals.
Asymptomatic household contacts of laboratory confirmed cases: 400 mg twice a day on Day one, followed by 400 mg once weekly for next three weeks; to be taken with meals.
I suspect more docs and nurses in third world countries are at risk because not everyone sick is tested and there is a lack of equipment.
however, it can cause irregular heart beats/sudden death, so don’t use it without your doctor checking it.
and you can overdose on it (which is why the lady and her husband who used fish medicine died: probably fatal arrhytmia).
I am not on it, because I am retired and not well enough to work as a physician anymore, so am staying inside.
Glad to see that India is at least looking at common sense solutions.