That last sentence tickled me...lol
You were smart.
Covid has a low death rate but it does kill....no question
I take hydroxchloroquine now for my rheumatoid arthritis....I wonder that’s why it’s effective against Covid as well
Like the second drug you took..
UPMC is a good hospital
Interesting.
I looked but haven’t found any COVID stats on those with RA or Lupus that take hydroxychloroquine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/
This is where the HCQ is effective idea began. It’s a PubMed NIH paper. Notice the 2005 date. It was with regard to SARS-1, Covid-19 being SARS-1’s close cousin. I had found the paper sometime before Trump first mentioned it, maybe March 2020, by looking for what I could find about SARS-1. I posted a link here on a Covid thread and it got exactly zero interest.
The study was done on Green Monkey tissue in a laboratory. SARS-1 had burned itself out before HCQ could be tested against SARS in human beings. It worked on Green Monkey tissue in the lab but that doesn’t mean it will work in vivo in people. Covid-19 provided the chance to put it to the test and the studies that I’ve read indicate that it just didn’t do much. Nursing staffs were given it hoping that it would protect them from catching Covid but they came down with it at the same rate as without using it. Maybe it would provide some protection if you aren’t confronted with high viral loads that nurses are exposed to. It just didn’t work out as the 2005 study had hoped.