Posted on 07/02/2020 7:46:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine lowers the death rate of COVID-19 patients, U.S. researchers have said.
Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. Over 2,000 of the patients were given hydroxychloroquine or the anti-malarial with azithromycin, an antibiotic.
The study found 13 percent of those who received hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent who didn’t receive the drug.
Hydroxychloroquine alone decreased the mortality hazard ratio by 66 percent and the anti-malarial with the antibiotic decreased the ratio by 71 percent, researchers said.
The vast majority of patients were given the drug within 48 hours of admission.
“Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives,” neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis, senior vice president and chief academic officer of the health system, said in a statement. “As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”
Patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also had a lower mortality than people who received neither, as did patients who received azithromycin.
“The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,” added Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for Henry Ford, who co-authored the study with epidemiologist Dr. Samia Arshad.
“We attribute our findings that differ from other studies to early treatment, and part of a combination of interventions that were done in supportive care of patients, including careful cardiac monitoring,” Zervos said. “Our dosing also differed from other studies not showing a benefit of the drug. And other studies are either not peer reviewed, have limited numbers of patients, different patient populations or other differences from our patients.”
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RE: I have family members who have taken HCQ daily for years. No problems.
May we know for what condition? Thanks.
FYI. We went to Mao, to Marshfield, even to the surgeon in Sun City AZ who does the joint work for Major league baseball players. NOT ONE would touch her. Marquette General-Marquette MI would have done it but they wanted to break up all her femur and reconstruct it.
Went to Henry Ford and the Ortho surgeon said let me think on this. The next day he called her in and said I got an idea and it’ll work.
They had to cut off a chunk of the stem from the ball section to fit it in the femur.
When she was a kid, she broke her leg and the quack doctors back then let it heal overlapped and never set it. So the bone is twisted as well as crooked.
Best dam place I ever seen for things like that. And BTW, that surgery made a major publication for Orthopedic surgery and that Doctor got recognized for his work about that. My sister-in-law says they still talk and teach about that sugery.
I got the pics of them doing the work on that stem and the X-ray and all. The tools they use look just like a bushing kit you’d use for valve stem work on a engine head. I KID YOU NOT.
Amazing hospital. This makes their Hydroxychloroquine study EVEN MORE CREDIBLE.
God Bless the Beautiful State of Michigan.
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[[The catch here is that this was not a double-blind, randomized study]]
Oh well then, let’s scream ‘HCQ is very dangerous and unproven”
[[Instead, this is a retroactive look at treatment received by people who entered the hospital system over a period of time.]]
Which should be a gold standard or determining and or judging the effectiveness- but nope- the let scream ‘Too dangerous! Unproven”
by that i meant the left will run with that fact- that it wasn’t double blind trial- that’s all they care about only because Trump endorsed the drug- They woudl rather 10’s of 1000’s die than to give Trump any credit for anything
SeekAndFind wrote:
“Amazing hospital. This makes their Hydroxychloroquine study EVEN MORE CREDIBLE.”
Thanks for posting this!
What? They couldn’t find any spare Zinc to add to the mix?
Whaaaaaaat? Didn’t they listen to Niel Cavuto who breathlessly explained that “If you take HCQ you are going to die”?
Niel is no longer allowed on our TV— He’;s a liar and partisan hack
fyi
https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)30534-8/fulltext
Yes, IF hydroxychloroquine is administered early in the infection, and particularly before a major respiratory failure or a cytokine storm from the immune system develops. Once the illness becomes very severe the importance of the hydroxychloroquine drops and the importance of other measures increases because the worst symptoms the body is fighting then demand it.
We have to clean out the barn.
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