“I prescribed HCQ for prophylaxis early on — and a lot when on to get ill (the South Korean protocol was loading dose of 800 mg day one then 400 mg a week x 8 weeks). Didn’t do much.
“As for Ivermectin, I do not think prescribing an antibiotic for prophylaxis is good medicine in terms of this disease. I treated dozens and dozens early on with the Ivermectin, did little to turn the course of the disease. It certainly did not cure people in 18 seconds like some have said.
“I stopped with Ivemectin and moved on to monoclonals and have excellent success with it. But I advocate for my patients to get it and work diligently where necessary to get to yes on the treatmen and have not been turned back.
“HCQ and Ivermectin are weakly useful in this disease. Not that I say weakly useful — not useless, but we have so much better so I am unclear why we still mess around with inferior treatments except for a narrative that has nothing to do with actual clinical medicine.”
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Gas Dr., right? This would presumably mean that you are an anasthaesiologist, no? All of a sudden you’re a front line general practitioner or Internal Medicine specialist?
What gives? What book of fiction are you reading from? What kind of quack are you?
Look up the specialty of critical care medicine and critical care anesthesiology. And early on those of us intensivists were happy to work to prevent hospitalization.
It’s amazing that you who don’t like the narrative attack the person.
It’s ok. Doesn’t really bother me or is as a specialty.