The data from Switzerland indicates that early treatment with HCQ saves lives.
Posted on 07/24/2020 7:23:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Another study has found that an antimalarial drug touted by President Trump and his top advisers is not effective at treating COVID-19 and may cause adverse effects.
The study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that hydroxychloroquine did not improve outcomes for the 667 COVID-19 patients participating in a randomized trial at 55 Brazilian hospitals.
In the study, patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 illness were split into three groups, in which one group received hydroxychloroquine, another group received the drug along with azithromycin - an antibiotic - and the last group received neither.
All groups received standard care for COVID-19.
The study found a seven-day course of hydroxychloroquine, with or without the antibiotic, did not result in better outcomes.
The study is the latest to show hydroxychloroquine is not effective at treating COVID-19, despite initial hype among doctors, scientists and politicians that led to global shortages of the drug.
Some studies have found that the drug can cause adverse effects in COVID-19 patients. In the study published Thursday, patients who took hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic were more likely to experience adverse events, including heart rhythm irregularities, than patients who received the drug alone.
Patients who received neither drug were least likely to experience adverse effects.
The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked an emergency use authorization that allowed doctors to treat COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials.
However, the White House began pushing the FDA to reverse course after a widely-criticized study at Detroit's Henry Ford Health System found death rates were lower for patients treated with hydroxychloroquine.
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First question I asked: Did the test patients zinc along with the hydroxychloroquine?
It appears that none of them did.
My conclusion: This study is rubbish.
There are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics. But nothing beats studies.
But none got the zinc too? It is a three part cocktail, as I have understood it, and they never test the cocktail. They don’t want it to work.
Or it may not.
New ARGENTINIAN study finds Hydroxychloroquine EFFECTIVE at treating COVID-19!
Recent New Guinea study finds contradictory conclusions vary from minute to minute.
All that matters is that today’s headline contradicts whatever was reported two days ago. Thank you, try the veal.
Less than Fake News, as a number of ‘studies’ were referenced but not cited at the propaganda’s source.
NE Journal of Medicine recanted an earlier ‘expose’ making the same claims of ineffectiveness.
Saving lives is an adverse effect, for Globalists. Must by why they did not administer zinc.
Two Brazilian studies now have OPPOSITE results, which one to believe?
See here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3866669/posts
TITLE: Brazil: Early treatment with Covid Kit including HCQ, Azithromycin, Ivermectin, Zinc and Vitamin D is effective and safe
RE: NE Journal of Medicine recanted an earlier ‘expose’ making the same claims of ineffectiveness.
Could you kindly provide the link for this retraction? Thanks.
Okay. And what did this “standard care” consist of? And what treatment worked best?
The data from Switzerland indicates that early treatment with HCQ saves lives.
First question: Why is HCQ allegedly more dangerous when used to treat covid than it is to treat other ailments?
Second question: Did the study administer HCQ at the onset of covid symtoms (like Tamiflu)?
Complete and total MSN BULL SHIT, DISREGARD!
“...at 55 Brazilian hospitals.”
HOSPITALS!
Giving Hydroxychloroquine to the almost dead. Gee, it didn’t work.
Did they also have them inhale bleach? /s
Anyone who’s ever been to Brazil takes what they say about medicine with a microscopic grain of salt.
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