Posted on 10/04/2020 8:57:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) 2400 mg over 5 days was used in Belgium for COVID-19.
Impact of HCQ on mortality among 8075 patients with COVID-19 was assessed.
Lower mortality in HCQ-treated patients as compared to supportive care.
Lower mortality was irrespective of symptom duration.
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A large Henry Ford Hospital System study found a mortality rate for 2,541 patients of 13.5% for HCQ alone, 20.1% for HCQ plus azithromycin, and 26.4% for neither.
A new analysis by R. Clinton Ohlers is title, "Effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine was hiding in plain sight." An early widely publicized study concluded that HCQ was not effective in New York patients. In truth: "Survival rates for hospitalized patients who received the drug approached 85%" and "with azithromycin the survival rate rose as high as 90%." Without either drug, "survival fell to levels as low as 53%." Conclusion: "a highly effective, inexpensive, and widely available treatment for COVID-19 is already in hand."
Similarly, Dr. Watanabe from Brazil reanalyzed a Minnesota study that had a negative conclusion. For very early HCQ use, he found that "reduction in symptomatic outcomes is 72% after 0 days (first day of infection), 48.9% after 1 day and 29.3% after 2 days" – all compared to a placebo group. Conclusion: "Infected patients may have a large benefit if treated as early as possible."
Clearly, many media-hyped studies saying HCQ has no benefits are not credible. Some medical journal papers were retracted.
An article by physician Norman Doidge is "Hydroxychloroquine: A Morality Tale – A startling investigation into how a cheap, well-known drug became a political football in the midst of a pandemic." Conclusion: "Worldwide [HCQ] might save a million or more people before COVID is tamed." Some studies were poorly designed. In one case "the patients were given the medication late – on average 16.6 days after the first symptoms."
Another important study is: "Early treatment with hydroxychloroquine: a country-based analysis." Critical conclusion: The death rate from the virus in a number of nations where HCQ has been made widely available (the treatment group) is about 74% less than in those nations, including the U.S., where it has not been made available (the control group).
Many physicians and experts on viruses have published strong pro-HCQ articles, notably Dr. Harvey Risch from Yale University. He has repeatedly argued for using HCQ as the standard outpatient therapy. This article is for a general audience. In a medical journal article, he warned against "sitting by and letting hundreds of thousands die because we did not have the courage to act according to our rational calculations."
Experienced pro-HCQ front-line doctors have appeared on Fox News shows, including Dr. Stephen Smith, Dr, Marc Siegel (whose 96-year-old father was saved with HCQ), Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Risch who noted, "We're basically fighting a propaganda war against the medical facts" and that "75,000 to 100,000 lives will be saved" if the national HCQ stockpile were used. Fox's Sean Hannity had Dr. George Fareed, an early user of HCQ, on a recent radio show.
A new CDC publication reveals prescriptions for HCQ at retail stores (not mail order). In March through June this year there likely were 680,000 prescriptions for treating the virus. After the government clamp down, prescriptions in May and June averaged 80,000 a month. This limited use may help explain many reduced death rates.
And despite negative actions by some governments and the World Health Organization, the Sermo survey of physicians in 30 countries found for this September that HCQ is being used for 22% of patients outside hospitals, 21% inside them and even 14% in ICUs.
4. Problems with Fauci's Positions
Dr. Fauci is only satisfied with randomized control trials (RCTs). This position has been sharply debunked, as has the assertion of negative health effects and that HCQ risks outweigh its benefits.
Thomas R. Frieden, former head of the CDC, concluded in 2017: "Despite their strengths, RCTs have substantial limitations." He supported using many other kinds of data that now constitute the evidence for using HCQ.
Similarly, Norman Doidge observed: "RCT is best understood as standing not for Randomized Control Trials, but rather 'Rigidly Constrained Thinking.' in the current COVID-19 situation … we cannot simply, as so many are insisting [namely Fauci], rely only on the long-awaited RCTs to decide how to treat COVID-19."
Importantly, hundreds of drugs have been approved without RCTs, including hydrocortisone, Lasix, tetanus vaccine, insulin, tetracycline, warfarin, heparin, prednisone, half of chemotherapy drugs used in cancer and uses of HCQ for many diseases, such as malaria and lupus.
Another false criticism has recently been debunked: "HCQ decreases cardiac events. HCQ should not be restricted in COVID-19 patients out of fear of cardiac mortality." Another study concluded: "HCQ administration is safe for a short-term treatment for patients with COVID-19 … causing … no directly attributable arrhythmic deaths." Dr. James Todaro concluded: "It is highly unlikely that fatal cardiac cases are from hydroxychloroquine use. It is far more likely that the disease itself is the cause of arrhythmias and cardiac injury during the hyperinflammation phase of severe cases of COVID-19."
An article by Steven Hatfill, "Why Is The Media Suppressing Information About Hydroxychloroquine's Effectiveness Against COVID?" noted, "There are now 53 studies that show positive results of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 infections." It also highlights the early Fauci and FDA strategy that promoted use of HCQ for hospitalized patients (when it was mostly too late) rather than early outpatient use.
The Doidge article noted that for a major study that found a 66% reduction in hospital deaths from use of HCQ, Fauci "didn't seem excited." The key question: "Why should anyone facing a pandemic wish to discredit potentially lifesaving medications?" The answer: The billions of dollars to be made from selling medications and vaccines. Fauci has had a very close relationship with pharmaceutical companies and has patents for one of the leading vaccines being tested by Moderna.
In August three-front line physicians wrote a detailed open letter to Fauci making the medical case for unblocking widespread use of HCQ. "You are largely unchallenged in terms of your medical opinions. You are the de facto COVID-19 Czar. … Americans must not continue to die unnecessarily. Adults must resume employment and our youth return to school. Locking down America while awaiting an imperfect vaccine has done far more damage to Americans than the coronavirus."
An important article by an epidemiologist rebutted the explanation by Fauci of why he rejects the incredible amount of evidence supporting use of HCQ. Conclusion: "I earnestly hope that Dr. Fauci reconsiders his opposition to HCQ and restores his hitherto considerable reputation."
I’m sure this will be on front pages across America tomorrow.
RE: I’m sure this will be on front pages across America tomorrow.
In a better, saner world, yes. But we don’t live in such a world now.
No we don’t.
What I wouldn’t give for one MAJOR network to be conservative.
Or fair even.
Thank you.
Bookmark.
Thank you for sharing this important news.
Bye Dr. Fauci
Can I know how many MGs of HCQ, Zinc and azithromycin are recommended without reading all the links? I have heard that you take it for five days.
This is the Dr. Zelenko treatment protocol for COVID-19:
https://faculty.utrgv.edu/eleftherios.gkioulekas/zelenko/Zelenko-memo-August-protocol.pdf
This is the Dr. Zelenko prophylaxis protocol for COVID-19:
https://faculty.utrgv.edu/eleftherios.gkioulekas/zelenko/Zelenko-memo-August-prophylaxis.pdf
Thanks and I did read through some studies after all.
LOL!
My entire family had Covid six weeks ago and wifey earlier
My two oldest boys were sickest....like three to four day cold or very mild flu
They tested positive
I got sick too same time as did youngest but didn’t get tested
I was very very short of breath like couldn’t lie in bath tub without feeling like choking and my phlegm was like boiled custard heavy and consistent and a little fever one night
We all too plaquenil 800 first day and 400 per day for 5-10 days after plus z pak and liquid true zinc in water ....very very nasty the zinc is...whew
Anyhow ....it was not much honestly
And I’ve a horrible multiple efforts rebuilt heart and a pacemaker and morbid sleep apnea at six five 235
And serious pulmonary scar tissue from two sternum crack opens 15 years ago
My wife who had no medicine was much sicker
My youngest was fairly asymptomatic except loss of taste
My oldest daughters fiancée was quite ill like flu but refused my help .....shoulda listened....hydroxchloroquine helps I’m convinced
Oldest daughter was asymptomatic
We got it from a private jet pilot for a big firm here who caught it in Los Angeles ,....
Thanks for this post and for this protocol info.
TDS kills!
Your estimate on how many died who could have been saved if HCQ++ had been accepted?
Instead, it was poo-poohed by the Dems and the media just because Trump recommended it.
TDS kills!
That's a 37 percent reduction in fatalities. Keep in mind, that these were hospitalized patients. HQC is most effective when taken BEFORE hospitalization, and also with zinc and an antibiotic.
Average for those receiving HCQ was 66 versus 77 for those not receiving HCQ. I imagine they try to correct for this statistically somehow but the raw death percentages for HCQ vs non HCQ are meaningless.
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