Posted on 04/07/2020 6:51:15 AM PDT by Liberty7732
What he doesn’t mention is an adverse interaction possibly indicated between HCQ and Metformin.
A major concern of mine and it should be run to ground immediately.
If we would have fought WW2 like some intend on fighting this virus, we would be speaking German or Japanese today.
Compassionate use
A patient should be able to have their doc administer what looks to be our best hope
I wish he had mentioned zinc as well.
Going to point that out myself.
Every hack wants to get in on the game.
If you develop fever and a dry cough, you would be a fool not to take hydroxychloroquine/Zithromax even before you developed shortness of breath. Once you have demonstrable pneumonia, the effectiveness of the regimen diminishes greatly. That is why it will be so difficult to ascertain in retrospective studies the merit of the regimen. It will be difficult to ascertain just at what stage the patient was at when the regimen was started. That is why it is so harmful that these governors have put obstacles or prevented primary care physicians from using their best medical judgement and prescribing these drugs in a timely manner.
Key bullshit:
The severe nature of the infections in these patients is notable, as it appears that the damage to the body goes beyond what an antibiotic can improve.
If you are put on a ventilator, your chances of survival are only around 30%. I’d want to chance the medication.
Without zinc, the study is flawed
It took six months after Pearl Harbor to even get the situation semi-stabilized, and another six months to make losing seem less likely.
The genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was published on January 9 of this very year.
The RCT that was done in Hubei China seemed to have been a valid protocol and was conclusive that HCQ reduced the Time to Critical Recovery (TTCR) and incidence of pneumonia in all the treated patients. It was a small cohort of 64 patients (32 in the drug arm and 32 in the placebo) but the results were statistically significant in that 85% of the treated patients showed a reduction in virus load after 5 days compared to only 54% of the untreated patients. No treated patients had to be hospitalized while 4 of the untreated were hospitalized and 1 died.
The contrary studies that I’ve seen were done on patients that were very sick with an overwhelming virus load. The key benefit may be realized by getting HCG early before the immune system is overloaded. Raoult in France cites this as why he considers doing RCTs on very sick people to be unethical. Observational studies can still be valid with a large enough sample to eliminate systemic biases but the analysis is not as conclusive as an RCT.
"But conflicting scientific information has also emerged. One study suggests no benefit to the administration of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in patients with severe infection. The severe nature of the infections in these patients is notable, as it appears that the damage to the body goes beyond what an antibiotic can improve."
These guys aren't "scientists", they're idiots!
From what I’ve read, the HCQ acts as an ‘ionophore’ that helps get the zinc into the cells and prevents the virus from replicating. Seems you need zinc to be ions to get into the cells and the HCQ does that. The azithromycin I guess, being an antibiotic, attacks secondary bacteria like pneumonia. Hard to research on google when all they want to talk about is Trump non-medical opinion and Trump has $3K in the drug company stock through a mutual fund in a trust. (He donates his $400K salary every year.) The news media is dead.
Every remedy,solution,helpful advice and directive etc is shut down by the left if it interferes with their crisis. The economy needs to be in flames and body bags filled! These scum are ghouls!
Yes, without Zinc, so what?
YOUTUBE Thousands of doctors agree hydroxychloroquine is best treatment for coronavirus patients
The Democrats led by Dr. Fauci are working overtime to shutdown Trump's MIRACLE DRUG COMBO. Democrat Governors in NY, Mich, and Nevada have made it illegal to use the drug combo.
By putting resistance to Trump's Drug Combination, the Democrats have guaranteed four more years. And if they are fully exposed, it will be a landslide in November.
Nanzi Pelosi will be on suicide watch. Her son made $millions in Ukraine as she probably did too. The RATS cannot afford to have investigations into their corruption in Ukraine and China.
Four more years guarantees investigations will be done.
Read previous post to this. It’s only a guess, but from what I’ve been reading, it seems like the HCQ main function is to help zinc get into cells and prevent the virus from replicating. But I’m no doctor, just what I’ve read.
Guessing is bad. The azithromycin has antiviral properties by increasing production of interferons and interferon-stimulated genes. That effect is a bad thing for the virus.
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