tired&retired wrote: “It worked for me. Began taking it the day I had full blown Covid, not for the Covid. I was headed down the Mekong River in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam and took it as a malaria prophylactic. Knocked Covid right out of me.”
From the article:: “You’ll still find people today who claim, against all available evidence, that the drug is a panacea against COVID-19.”
Typical straw-man argument. As noted above HCQ was effective only in the early phase of the disease. A large double-blinded, placebo controlled study was published only a couple of months ago: Evaluation of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19 (COPCOV): A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
In this large placebo-controlled, double-blind randomised trial, HCQ and CQ were safe and well tolerated in COVID-19 chemoprevention, and there was evidence of moderate protective benefit in a meta-analysis including this trial and similar RCTs.
How strange this publication was not mentioned in the article we discuss here. (Is /s really necessary?)
I did not take it for Covid, but it worked.
I got Covid January 25th. 2020 in Chinatown Bangkok Thailand. It was a big Chinese New Year celebration. It was packed with Chinese tourists who came south for the warm weather and holiday.
I took Benadryl, Ibuprofen, Vitamins C&D, hydroxy, and drank tonic water. Was traveling with a group of Dr’s and they didn’t recognize the symptoms. The dry cough was horrible.