US doctors claim that Trump's controversial Hydroxychloroquine drug DOES help 91% of Coronavirus patients and argue we should not wait for 'controlled trials'

Daily Mail ^ | 04/29/2020 | By NATALIE RAHHAL ACTING US HEALTH EDITOR

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The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has improved the survival and recovery odds for about 90 percent of patients treated with the controversial medication, a physicians group claims.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presented data on 2,333 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine - including two supervised by Dr Oz - across the globe that shows 91.6 percent of those who got the drug fared better after treatment.

In a letter to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, the group urged that doctors should not wait for results of gold standard tests of the drug to start using it in coronavirus patients and should instead base their use of it on reasonable interpretations of limited available data.

AAPS's endorsement of the drug comes after a Veteran Affairs study of hydroxychloroquine found that those who took the drug were more likely to die, casting doubt over the potential treatment that President Trump has hailed a 'game changer.'

The group of doctors dismissed those preliminary results, claiming that the 52 people who died were already very sick, meaning their outcomes are 'not indicative' of hydroxychloroquine's effects and that the drug would work better if used in patients with less critical illness.

AAPS, which opposes what it refers to as healthcare 'reform,' including Medicare for All proposals, presents 'information from some larger patient groups, alongside reports on single patients.

'Waiting for fixed randomized controlled trials during a pandemic when time is of the essence, a Bayesian approach to the assessment of diagnostic and therapeutic probabilities is wise and efficient and will save time, money and lives if the physicians are given a chance to retain their autonomy and practice medicine to the best of their abilities,' the group writes.

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SUMMARY:

US doctors claim that Trump's controversial hydroxychloroquine drug DOES help 91% of coronavirus patients and argue we should not wait for 'controlled trials'

• The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons wrote a letter to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey urging wider use of hydroxychloroquine to treat covid
• They claim that data on 2,333 coronavirus patients reveals the drug helped 91% of patients recover
• Their data is mostly taken from observations of various doctors, many of whom - including Dr Oz - report treating only one or two patients
• Dr Anthony Fauci has advised caution in using hydroxychloroquine until clinical trials provide more data
• FDA issued a warning against using hydroxychloroquine outside hospitals due to its potential to cause heart arrhythmias in some patients
• Hydroxychloroquine has shown promise in labs and anecdotal reports, but a VA study found more patients treated with it died than those given standard care
• AAPS dismisses these results, arguing the veterans involved were very sick and their outcomes were not representative

[frogjerk]

We need a billion dollar drug, not $20 per dose! Doesn’t anyone get it? /sarc

[I want the USA back]

The democrats and the media (but I repeat myself!) will focus on the bleach thing and ignore this.

[lgjhn23]

“....We need a billion dollar drug, not $20 per dose! Doesn’t anyone get it? /sarc...”

Yep. Always follow the money trail...always.
Fauxi should be in jail for giving the commie SOBs $3.7 million of OUR money. He’s a commie RAT accomplice. He and the PIAPS should be made cellmates.
91% success rate with a $20/dose?? Yep...I’d damn sure take those odds IF I contracted it. Fauxi and Scarf can go piss up a stump.

[AC86UT89]

These doctors are wrong.

Rachel Maddow said so.

[Savage Beast]

The only thing controversial about it is what the so-called "news reporters" made of the issue as part of their usual nasty, petty, fatuous sniping.

I'm sure these people have no idea how ugly, stupid, and corrupt they reveal themselves to be--and especially in contrast to the lofty intellect of the man with whom they don't have enough sense not to try to match wits.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Meanwhile the DemocRat Propaganda Department (aka LSM) will insist there is no proof it works just because Trump suggested that it might work.

[A Voice]

Aren’t fixing them cracks..... the dam is fixing to burst.

[adamjeeps]

There is nothing “controversial” about the drug. Been in use forever. Obama was prescribed it when he went to his home continent of Africa when he was a Senator.

[Devils_Tower]

You need to remember there are three phases.

1. Virus, take an antiviral and help your immune system

2. When you go into septic shock, covid style, hope the hell you are being treated by somebody who understands.

3. Healing afterwords and fighting of recurrence of virus.

See evms.edu/covidcare download protocol..

https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_medicine/EVMS_Critical_Care_COVID-19_Protocol.pdf

If you do not get to this point, expect this.

https://gulagbound.com/60053/murder-nyc-covid-19-patients-left-to-rot-and-die-in-hospitals-sara-np

[Mouton]

The democrats and the media (but I repeat myself!) will focus on the bleach thing and ignore this.

The next media clown who brings that up at any press conference should be done in in N korea style, with a flame thrower.

[rockvillem]

The only thing controversial about it is what the so-called "news reporters" made of the issue as part of their usual nasty, petty, fatuous sniping.

This right here! If Obama had mentioned it, all we'd be hearing is about what a "visionary" he was and how he "literally saved thousands of lives", etc., etc.

[JimRed]

But, it only helps 91% of the time! We need more “studies”! And more $$$ grants to do the studies!

[JimRed]

Yep...I’d damn sure take those odds IF I contracted it.

Me too. In fact, I'd gladly take it as an ongoing preventive measure. It appears that works too.

[Savage Beast]

Trump is what the Democrats wanted Obama to be--or, at least, wanted public opinion to believe Obama to be.

Obama was a figurehead.

Trump's the real McCoy. He really is a man of superior intellect and dependable instincts. He is benevolent, fair, charitable, and fundamentally moral. He is fierce in battle but magnanimous in victory.

The dolts in the news media don't know what to make of him. They can't comprehend a man who is so far above them in so many ways. What they really can't come to grips with is his fundamental morality, which is far superior to theirs.

[Bommer]

If he had superior intellect,, he wouldnt have blix and fauxi advising him. Trump may be smart but he is a terrible judge of character!

[SC DOC]

Raoult Interview

[stinkerpot65]

Controlled trials are rigged to fail by Democrat scum bureaucrats.