Posted on 05/02/2020 6:28:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As some Western studies found hydroxychloroquine ineffective as a potential Covid-19 therapy, a new Chinese research has reported that the anti-malarial drug brought down mortality rates significantly among critical coronavirus patients.
The latest preprint study -- which means it's not yet peer-reviewed -- is based on the clinical analysis of 568 Covid-19 cases at Tongji Hospital in Wuhan, the initial epicentre of the pandemic, between February 1 and April 8.
Funded by China's Ministry of Science and Technology, Nature Science Foundation and Ma Yun Foundation, the research is sent to the Science China Life Sciences journal for peer-reviewing.
According to this research, all patients under the clinical analysis received comparable basic treatments, including antiviral and antibiotic drugs, and 48 of them received oral HCQ therapy for seven-ten days additionally.
The mortality rate in the HCQ group stood at 18.8 percent against 43.5 percent in the non-HCQ group, the study noted.
"Hydroxychloroquine treatment is significantly associated with a decreased mortality in critically-ill Covid-19 patients," the researchers wrote.
The study claims to "demonstrate that hydroxychloroquine application is associated with a decreased risk of death in critically-ill Covid-19 patients without obvious toxicity".
It recommends that "hydroxychloroquine should be considered a primary option to apply to treat critically-ill Covid-19 patients, which could save lives during the current Covid-19 pandemic".
The Chinese researchers, however, also suggest that despite their findings, the randomized double-blind-control study was needed to provide stronger evidence.
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Hydroxychloroquine is far more effective before critical illness.
Well well well....:MSN is putting out a positive Hydrochloroquine story?
Got a feeling they see the exposure of this hoax called Covid19 being called out soon and they’re getting ahead of it.
Now that the Communist Chinese have stated HCQ is effective, what’s the over/under on the Leftist media saying anything positive about it?
Yeah, something is up with that
BUT
as I discovered today, Chinese..especially Hans..can have a genetic predisposition that makes them more susceptible to a Virus. Still a lot is unknown on this. It’s IFITM3.
So Studies on Chinese may differ greatly than Studies on Caucasians.
btw, Caucasians can have genetic engineering that disrupts IFITM3 so you can do genetic therapy....as seen with the Thalessemia Trait.
so, in theory, a virus might mutate or be engineered to do to the same thing on a longer term basis. With thalessemia gene therapy the IFITM3 goes back to normal in about 6 hours
RE: This after they already stated it doesn’t work! Can’t trust Chinese for sh!t!
Well, what to say? We have contradictory results everywhere as well.
In the US, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons found there are “over 90 percent chances of HCQ helping Covid-19 patients”.
But another retrospective study associated with the US veterans claimed that the treatment had no positive effect on the 97 patients given HCQ doses.
In another study published in the May issue of The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), researchers from the Harvard Medical School concluded that HCQ was ineffective against Covid-19.
Yet, Turkey, which has made HCQ a part of standard Covid-19 treatment, has more than a million cases but has managed to keep the number of deaths much less than in the European countries.
Encouraged by the results, Turkey is now relaxing some of the lockdown measures.
HCQ treatment, said Istanbul University President Nuri Aydin, is “one of the main steps” in Covid-19 treatment. “...the second is isolation,” news reports quoted Dr Aydin as having said.
In India, HCQ remains the first line of therapeutic defence in the battle against Covid-19.
Which ones to believe? It isn’t just the Chinese producing contradictory results.
“Hydroxychloroquine is far more effective before critical illness.”
Yes. Diametrically the opposite of what the Chinese Communists claim, and proven so in case after case of application of said drug with other medications as well.
Makes me believe the Chinese Communists are trying to kill more of us.
No Zinc?
One doc isn’t impressed
This after they already stated it doesn’t work! Can’t trust Chinese for sh!t!
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That was a trial in Shanghai.
This is the result of a trial in epicentre Wuhan.
Far more convincing.
I will ever trust chicom BS again. Hell, I will never eat chinese food again after this.
“Well well well....:MSN is putting out a positive Hydrochloroquine story?”
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It’s MSN India. No a easy job to launch a war on antimalarial drug in India.
“I will ever trust chicom BS again. Hell, I will never eat chinese food again after this.”
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It’s nothing to do with propaganda.
These stooges really are going to drive me to stop drinking soon. Stop with the Quinine related news stories!
Oh ooops
Now what will the lefties rely on
Aahhhhhh! I just want to pull out my hair!! It works. It doesn’t work. It works..
My son is a doctor who is working on Long Island in two of the Northwell Health hospitals. He has been working with COVID patients in the ICU. He told me that these drugs (hydroxychloroquine and zinc) have not made any improvements in survival rates. They have been giving them to all the COVID patients. It doesn’t matter if they get the drugs when they are in the early stages of this illness or near the end. I spoke to him about this two evenings ago. I really can’t figure out why some places are seeing great results with these two drugs and others aren’t.
Please forgive me ahead of time if I don’t respond to any replies to this. For the next several days I will be straight out busy from morning until evening. If I get a minute, I will pop in and see if there’s anything to respond to. I just had to put this out here because I see all of these posts claiming that these drugs are doing wonderful things and I have a person in my life whose opinion I trust who is telling me that it’s just not true. And he is working right in the epicenter of this pandemic.
I will say, however, that he has seen the same results for remdesivir that we have been hearing about. The drug is shortening the length of the illness, but not really doing much to the death rate.
On a side note, I would appreciate prayers for him. He is getting discouraged as he is having to call three to four families a week to tell them that their loved ones have died.
Drug is working on a Virus in late stage cases, huh..
Oh, right. Chinese Study.
Go figure.
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