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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No zinc.
Given after admission to hospital... late in the process, and not the full dosage of Dr. Zelenko’s protocol. Fake study designed for to fail.
Maybe they should have had the nurses breath into their nostrils like rip van biden had them do. :-)
I always turn to the Brazilian medical community before I pursue any medical treatment or procedure. They are the best in the world, you know. /sarc
Again no zinc was used. It wont work without zinc. It also won’t work when the patients immune system has been overwhelmed. Of course, steroids help at that point and could be used in combination with the HCQ cotail, I’m thinking.
No zinc!!! Did they not read the research before designing their trial???
The Left is rooting for the virus against Trump.
How stupid are these f#&kin doctors? They must use Zinc for this to work. I haven’t seen a study yet, except for Dr. Zelenko, which used Zinc. They don’t want HCQ to work.
Could you kindly provide the link for this retraction?
Found it by searching ‘ne journal retraction HCQ’ and you’ll get the one from the Lancet as well.
How does that explain the Henry Ford study?
I think this is the NEJM Brazilian trial that was debunked by Dr. Gold. They used HCQ too late and in toxic doses. Political correctness over medical correctness.
The doctor in New York treated over 900 hundred COV19 patients. Prescribing a combination of zinc and hydroxychloroquine.
100% were cured with this combination.
So either the doctor and his patients are lying or this Brazilian study is rubbish.
This study was done by EMS PHARMA in Brazil. There’s your answer.
RE: This study was done by EMS PHARMA in Brazil.
OK, what’s the problem with EMS PHARMA?
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