Three big studies dim hopes that Hydroxychloroquine can treat or prevent COVID-19

Science ^ | 06/10/2020 | By Kai Kupferschmidt

[MuttTheHoople]

Where’s the zinc?

[Robert DeLong]

Just more BS. It was never touted as being the cure, but rather another tool that can be used. We already know it can be an effective tool.

[treetopsandroofs]

86 the propaganda, “Science”.

[wrench]

Zinc not mentioned anywhere. Might as well just put the pill in your pocket, will work the same without the zinc.

[madison10]

We are so over COVID. The HDQ and zinc work when administered early, they just want to prolong the misery of shutdowns.

[\/\/ayne]

I have Ginko Biloba, Zinc and Vitamin D3 stocked in case I get Wuhan Virus and the Democrats withhold hydroxychloroquine from me in my state.

[GSWarrior]

They are going to shut things down again.

Just redraw the lines now. We already have two governments in this country.

[robel]

There’s money in them thar vaccines!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)"

“You have a much better chance of preventing something with a weak drug than you have of curing a fully established infection,” says White, who runs one of the largest PrEP trials. He notes that doxycycline, an antibiotic, has long been used in malaria prophylaxis. “We would never treat anybody with it, it’s too weak. But it’s a very good prophylactic.”

You have to read three-quarters of the paper to get to the part that we all know. It will NOT cure a seriously ill patient, but it is a very effective PrEP when administered soon after you get infected. All of the protocols published have said that AND all the protocols recommend the cocktail of HCQ + azithromycin + zinc.

These studies ALWAYS ignore the recommended treatment and they rarely, if ever, get called out on that failure. They are either written by ignoramuses or by people who intentionally want it to fail.

[ConservativeMind]

No one ever said it makes anyone “immune.” It works to greatly lessen infection, once infected and before you wind up in the ICU.

It’s like Tamiflu. Tamiflu doesn’t really stop one from getting infected, but it can reduce the infection and its symptoms once infected. You can take it as a prophylactic, but it still doesn’t actually “stop” all cells from getting it. You can always have a small number get infected and keep the rest from getting it, making it seem like you were “immune.”

For that matter, you still get infected when you have a full immune response, but your body already knows how to fight off that invader.

[alstewartfan]

“Praised by president(s?) as a potential miracle cure” is a lie, and nothing further need be read.

[LeonardFMason]

“Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.”

The PUTZLIAR Center!? You mean the folks that awarded all the LEFTY Urinalists PUTZLIAR for reporting on FAKE Russian Collusion!?

[JimRed]

Except for the fact that when it has been used with zinc and an antibiotic in a timely manner (not waiting until the patient is dying) it works spectacularly well, why should we believe in it? < /sarc >

[Dogbert41]

Well that’s it then. It’s in Science Magazine!

[JimRed]

Many researchers agree that a good case can be made for continuing to test whether hydroxychloroquine can prevent infection if given to people just in case they get exposed to the virus, for instance on the job at a hospital—a strategy called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). “You have a much better chance of preventing something with a weak drug than you have of curing a fully established infection,” says White, who runs one of the largest PrEP trials.

PrEP has gotten a bad name, as the first most of us ever heard of it was when ads started appearing for PrEP drugs to keep homosexuals safe for buggery. Prepping them to survive their risky behavior.

[RayChuang88]

The combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin is actually quite effective against COVID-19. That's why they are redoing the medical studies, this with with azithromycin.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Studies designed to fail. As Dr Zelenko said, (I paraphrase) look at it as hydroxychloroquine as the gun, and the zinc as the bullet (to the virus). No zinc, no bullet. These scientists are morons with empty guns and I have never seen such a worldwide failure of science in my lifetime.

[ConservativeMind]

“The researchers sent either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo by mail to 821 people who had been in close contact with a COVID-19 patient for more than 10 minutes without proper protection. They reported in The New England Journal of Medicine that 12% of the people who took the drug went on to develop COVID-19 symptoms, versus 14% in a placebo group, a difference that was not statistically significant.”

We will all “get symptoms” of COVID. Most people think it’s a cold or allergy for a few days.

Big deal.

[CedarDave]

It really could pose an ethical choice for a doctor who believes HCQ is effective (in concert with zinc and an antibiotic) for his patient but would have to lie to his phamacist who has been prohibited by Blue state government to fill a HCQ prescription for the virus and must question the doctor about its use.