Posted on 04/12/2020 9:48:26 AM PDT by rintintin
he Spanish government has announced it will be launching a clinical trial into whether hydroxychloroquine and certain antiretrovirals can prevent frontline health workers from contracting COVID-19.
The research, dubbed the Clinical Trial for the Prevention of Coronavirus Infection in Health Workers (EPICOS) will study 4,000 health workers, from wardens to doctors, at 62 hospitals in 13 regions in Spain.
The EPICOS investigation will evaluate to what extent existing medicines may offer protection against coronavirus.
One group of participants will be given the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, while another will take a combination of the antiretroviral medications emtricitabine and tenofovir, a medication currently used to treat and prevent HIV. A third group will be given a placebo.
Ads by scrollerads.com The randomized double-blind clinical trial, which will be overseen by the Spanish Medicines Agency, will release its first results in four weeks' time.
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I’d rather not be the 3rd group.
Dr Death, excuse me Fauci, will not be pleased about this. It’s all anecdotal you know.
Ironically, placebo has the most documented effectiveness of the three in treating all sorts of ailments. It’s the gold standard of medicine, with limited side effects.
Of course, placebo doesn’t work all that often, so people keep on seeking out other, riskier treatments for which we have so little data, often just anecdotal evidence.
Wow.
Fascinating.
And a little depressing :)
I can see the future!
June 28, 2020. Today Dr Fauci told Jake Tapper on CNN “if President Trump had listened to me when I recommended that hydroxychloroquine be used on Covid-19 victums it would have saved lives”.
lol
By September he’ll be saying Trump cost millions of lives.
Even if 50,000 died
Aaaaand the scorpion Trump was riding stings him.
Who knew.
Bureacrat backstabber, nothing more.
Hey, it wouldn’t be as bad as being in the control group to prove that parachutes save lives.
Funny how the scum left has been pushing AGAINST this for weeks.
“Placebo Defect” by Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. Analog Dec 1992...
Its really stupid of them to do it too. The world is doing massive studies on this. If it truly is effective, its not something that can be contained by doom and gloomers operating in the US.
Their rejections will be biting them in the ass when this is over.
LOL
Well if they landed square on their feet!
Saw that happen in a horror movie once.
It ended badly. Especially with the wolves around at night.
That's OK.. I bet a lot missed it this morning.
FOLKS, just remember.... most successful cases of HCQ, including the ones published by Dr. Didier Raoult in France and Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in upstate New York show that it is most effective during the early stages of the disease, that is,as soon as symptoms are observed. If you use it at that stage, it only takes 5 to 6 days to reverse the disease. This relieves immensely the burden on hospitals and healthcare workers!
You should not wait, like UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had to go to ICU, before you start the Hydroxychloroquine protocol. By that stage of the disease, the success rate is not well established.
Yes.
That is precisely why the media have launched a jihad against Chloroquine. They absolutely have to stop too many people from getting early access to it by any means possible.
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