Hyped Malaria Pill Doesn’t Help Clear Coronavirus in Study

Bloomberg ^

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There were more side effects in the group of 75 people who took hydroxychloroquine, but they were mostly mild, the most common being diarrhea. The researchers, led by Wei Tang of Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, wrote that the medicine’s anti-inflammatory effects probably helped alleviate patients’ symptoms.

[a fool in paradise]

zinc?

[mmichaels1970]

The drug did help alleviate some clinical symptoms of Covid-19

So it helped patients feel better? How awful.

[shotgun]

Bloomberg citing the Chinese. Almost as if China doesn’t want the US to survive.

[FlipWilson]

Really Bloomberg? A Chinese study. It’s so pathetic at this point.

[Jewbacca]

Misleading headline.

Note it said the drug alleviated symptoms.

It doesn’t attack the virus. It gives the body time to attack the virus.

[cuban leaf]

In other news, Nazi’s tell us that Jews are just trying to rip us off and KKK spokesman says Black men are trying to rape your white daughters.

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If you can reduce the symptoms, you can save lives. The symptoms cause death.

[Black Agnes]

I was going to type the very same thing.

China data.

Why bother?

[cuban leaf]

Bloomberg and Chinese. Two reasons not to believe a word in the story. My GAWD they think we are stupid.

[MrEdd]

Or azithromycin.

Or (like a lot of the earlier studies if you read the methodology) they only studied people who were nearly dead when they began administering the medication.

[spudville]

Diarrea/ Death hmmm. Gets rid of the symptoms? Like choking and drowning on your own phlem? Brings the fever down? Stops the damaging cough? Good reason to talk it down. Trumps fault.

[cuban leaf]

The symptoms cause death.

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Death itself is a pretty serious symptom to avoid, if you ask me. :D

[mmichaels1970]

Note it said the drug alleviated symptoms.

I know. The trials "failed" because they only helped sick people feel better?

[Normandy]

The article states the drug did not clear the virus, but — “The drug did help alleviate some clinical symptoms of Covid-19, however, and the patients who took it showed a greater drop in C-reactive protein, a measure of inflammation.”

[a fool in paradise]

The is election propaganda from Nanny Bloomberg’s partisan press.

[mmichaels1970]

The article states the drug did not clear the virus, but — “The drug did help alleviate some clinical symptoms of Covid-19, however, and the patients who took it showed a greater drop in C-reactive protein, a measure of inflammation.”

And when you pair that with the article's headline, you get proof that the media is the enemy.

[BuffaloJack]

How would they know, diarrhea is a symptom of COVID-19 anyway.

[Starboard]

A SMALL study of 150 hospitalized patients by doctors at 16 centers in China which hasn’t been peer-reviewed.

[libh8er]

How breathlessly these dumb@sses report. It’s not about “clearing Coronavirus”. It’s about preventing immune overreaction (cytokine storm) and thus death from organ failure. And the zinc may have inhibitory effect on viral replication which may shorten the duration. Nobody said anything about popping these pills and Coronavirus getting “cleared”.