Posted on 01/28/2021 2:15:23 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
A new study out of New Jersey shows that the controversial antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine could help people with mild symptoms of COVID-19.
Hackensack Meridian Health published a new study that found outpatients who received the anti-inflammatory drug last year were much less likely to be hospitalized, NorthJersey.com reported.
Andrew Yip, the director of the Division of Outcomes and Value Research at the John Theurer Cancer Center, cautioned people against jumping to conclusions about the drug, as it needs to be studied further before it is approved for use.
“If you’re going to say it’s a cure, that’s definitely crazy,” Ip said.
He did point out that the study found “less hospitalizations and not much toxicity” in patients who receive hydroxychloroquine, but “you still need to validate these findings” in a clinical trial.
Hydroxychloroquine became a political controversy last year when former President Donald Trump touted it as a cure for COVID-19.
“The nice part is, it’s been around for a long time, so we know that if it — if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody,” Trump said, according to ABC News...
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Maybe the dam of ignorance about HCQ is breaking.
Did he literally state that? Or did he indicate that it could help people with the virus?
Now that Dementia Joe is President, hydroxychloroquine has become a miracle cure.
It's absolutely disgraceful that the news media would rather have people die of COVID-19 than to give President Trump any credit for touting it.
FYI - you can get Quercetin OTC...
I think he merely suggested that there is some evidence that it can help with viruses and that it can’t hurt given that it has been used by literally billions of people over several decades, not necessarily for viruses, but other things, and seems to have no worse of a harm rate than aspirin. So why not try it?
I think the idea is to try it, kind of like amoxicillin is often tried when one isn’t really sure if the patient has a bad cold or a sinus infection, but there generally isn’t much harm in having someone take it in most cases.
“Dam of Ignorance” or “Conspiracy of silence/misinformation”?
HCQ is NOT a controversial drug.
The media has fabricated any controversy about it.
Maybe the ignorance of president Trump is breaking!
That’s how I remember it.
So, President Trump was right all along.
And science proves it.
A week after Trump leaves office.
But the media will say he claimed this was a “cure”. HA! That fool! Wrong again! It is not cure!! It may help with viruses, and it may be safe and we should certainly use it ... but ... only a fool like Trump would claim it was a cure!!!
He didn't tout it as a cure. He said there has been considerable success in treating people at the early onset of the virus.
China Virus, like Aids had their own civil rights. They had a right to kill people.
After 440,000 Americans are Dead – Facebook and American Journal of Medicine Admit Their Stand on HCQ was Wrong — These People Should be Prosecuted!
Yes, but how many lives were lost because they called it a quack-cure? Neil Cavuto, should take a bow after that slob was screaming on TV that it will kill people. All this when the government was advising people to take Tylenol, and some ended up dying, they could have taken HCL!
Fauci said it would not help. He should be thrown out of the profession. There was nothing to lose by telling doctors to try this drug that was 70 years old, and given to children to fight malaria!
Now Ivermectin is proving to be a better therapeutic. Will Big Pharma fight that because there is no money in it?
Bttt.
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The truth about HCQ is that it is safer than aspirin and it can be given to pregnant women.
We knew this 9-10 months ago. Huge fail by the public health establishment, because Trump said something good about it, and #OrangeManBad.
Kind of like there is a considerable success rate in putting something like Bacitrin (sp?) on a bad cat scratch?
I’d venture to guess that far fewer people who do so go on to develop an infection, and at the very least see their scratches heal faster, than those who do nothing.
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