How about automatically prescribing HCQ + Z-pac when testing positive. As Trump said, what do we have to lose?
you might want to read this paper from yesterdays’ thread:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2763843
Whether Covid-19 can infiltrate the heart of an otherwise healthy, but infected person and cause arrhythmias or no, giving that person two medications that separately may cause arrhythmias, and together may enhance each other, could be a fatal event without direct in-hospital observation. Maybe for 80% there’d be no problem but with others...lights out
The problem is that the Austin guidelines, which appear to be the emerging SOP for American hospitals, prohibit testing unless the victim is being admitted, and prescriptions of HCQ + Z-Pak seem to be limited to those who have been diagnosed with the Wuhan Virus. The latter is for the very proper purpose of saving enough HCQ for lupus and malaria victims.
I’d be fine with testing of any victim with comorbidities, or those over 60-65, with admission limited to those with breathing difficulties as proposed in the Austin guidelines, as long as a positive test for Wuhan Virus gets an automatic prescription of HCQ + Z-Pak. But that is NOT what is happening. What is really happening is a close to automatic death sentence for the people most vulnerable to the Wuhan Virus once they catch it.