Posted on 06/08/2021 10:05:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted as a magical Covid-19 cure by former US President Donald Trump last year, has been found effective in a prophylactic study published in the Journal of The Association of Physicians of India.
Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted as a magical Covid-19 cure by former US President Donald Trump last year, has been found effective in a prophylactic study published in the Journal of The Association of Physicians of India (JAPI) last week.
The study showed that hydroxychloroquine, popularly known as HCQ, could prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection in varying degrees depending on its dosing regimen. The highest prevention rate of 72 per cent was found among those given hydroxychloroquine over six weeks or a longer duration.
The study said, “[W]hen adjusted for other risk factors, HCQ dose as per government recommendations, 2-3, 4-5, 6 or more weeks reduced the probability of Covid positivity by 34 per cent, 48 per cent and 72 per cent.”
The study was conducted May-September last year when HCQ was still part of the Union health ministry’s recommendation in treatment protocol for Covid-19.
BACK AND FORTH ON HCQ
The study began against the backdrop of contesting claims made by authorities and experts including Donald Trump and his advisor Dr Anthony Fauci, the US’s top infectious disease expert.
In March 2020, Donald Trump declared that hydroxichloroquine was a “game changer” drug in the fight against Covid-19. Dr Fauci dismissed the claim citing lack of study and evidence. Despite Fauci’s counter-positioning, Trump continued to be vocal about taking HCQ as prophylactic drug.
Incidentally, the Union health ministry on June 6 dropped hydroxychloroquine from Covid-19 treatment protocol. In its nine-page guidelines released on Sunday (June 6) by the directorate of health services, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and favipiravir find no mention.
The government’s decision came on the back of criticism by experts who pointed out a lack of study-based evidence to recommend hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19 cases. The government’s revised guidelines, however, contradicts the recommendations made by the Indian Council of Medical Research as released on May 17.
The ICMR guidelines prescribed the use of hydroxychloroquine in mild cases of Covid-19.
WHY THIS STUDY MATTERS
The authors of this prophylactic (relating to prevention of a disease) study said that this “is the largest multicenter study on HCQ prophylaxis on HCWs (healthcare workers), covering over 12,000 HCWs at the risk of Covid-19”.
The study was conducted in May-September last year across 44 hospitals in 17 states involving hundreds of doctors, who received doses of hydroxychloroquine.
HERE’S WHAT A RESEARCHER SAID
One of the co-authors of the study, Dr Raj Kamal Choudhry said, “In the 1985-86 edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine [a highly recommended book for students studying medicine in medical colleges], Dr Fauci wrote that HCQ worked an anti-viral agent despite being an anti-malarial drug. There was no Covid-19 back then. HCQ’s anti-viral properties were known.”
Dr Raj Kamal Choudhry, who was the nodal officer for the prophylaxis study of HCQ in Bihar’s Bhagalpur medical college, said, “We had given about 2,700 doctors and paramedical staff, laundry and kitchen people the prophylaxis of HCQs in the dose of HCQs 400 mg 1×2 for first day then 1 tab daily for 4 days.”
“We did not give to those who had palpitations and had QT prolongation [a measure of heart ailment]. Those who took this drug did not have Covid excepting 5 and 6. The effect was tremendous. Later, we gave this drug to all who had mild cases. Only those patients who were in ICU were not given.”
“Of 2,700 people who were given HCQs, 700 were doctors. Only five or six got infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Bhagalpur but none developed serious complications, and nobody died of Covid-19,” Dr Raj Kamal Choudhry told Indiatoday.in.
Incidentally, Donald Trump, who tested positive for Covid-19 in October, recovered fast from the coronavirus infection without showing any serious complication.
In their conclusion, the researchers said, “HCQ is effective in reducing risk of Covid-19, at 800 mg loading and 400 mg weekly dose with more than 2 weeks dosing.”
They said the HCQ was “well tolerated” among the participants. As policy implications of the study, the authors said, “Vaccine has its own limitations, and therefore an alternative strategy of prophylaxis such as HCQ is important, especially in low resource settings.”
The outcome of the study is significant given that India is facing acute shortage of vaccine doses, and it is still likely to take a few months before availability of vaccines improves in the country. However, the decision on who could be advised to go for HCQ prophylaxis would require a relook by the Union health ministry and the ICMR.Live TV
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A really huge story is how many people died because the media opposed Hydroxychloroquine? They opposed it because Trump had info it worked, not because is was not helpful and safe.
I know because of this opposition, had I been Covid infected, I could not have received HCQ because of this opposition.
Its a successful treatment for the bio weapon. Not a cure.
There wont ever be a cure for covid.
Fauci said at the presser it won’t be a successful treatment for covid, then Trump said I have a feeling it will be.
I think you are splitting hairs here. Successful treatment is a cure. Maybe not a cure in every case, but it is a cure.
Don’t know if I’d call it a ‘cure’, it’s more a ‘treatment’ that allows natural immunity to develop.
I am waiting for one of these countries that have discovered the Truth to Formally INDICT all the Players that pulled this scam, that would include Google, Twitter and Facebook. DEMAND they be Brought to trial for the Genocide they participated in and Execute all of them upon conviction.
Fauci was dead set against its use. What does he say now?
Yes, but Fauci and the eneMedia claimed it was deadly to use (even as it has been used safely for 50+ years)
To your reply..yes and no. Might be best to describe it a splitting hairs I suppose but, there is no cure for this Bio weapon.
One of my best friends goes to India often and has many, many friends there. She told me when Covid surged she knew exactly why and she was right.
They started pushing the vaccines (experimental gene therapies) instead of the HCQ they normally take anyway. She confirmed it with her friends and at the same time an article came out saying the same. I can’t remember who wrote it without searching but I read it.
Lots of blood of lots of hands. HCQ, zinc, ivermectin are proven therapeutics.
Some people are using the word “cure’ to imply a 100% effectiveness rate. This is no such treatment for any ailment nor has there ever been.
I agree that this is a bio-weapon. I believe it was released and spread intentionally by the Chinese (and other parties) to damage the US and specifically Trump. It was successful in that it did damage the economies of the US and many other countries. It was unsuccessful in that Trump still won the election.
I understand how you feel.
I had read about HCQ before President Trump mentioned it in one of his press-conferences. I had asked a colleague to write me a prescription. When I heard PDJT talk about HCQ, I thought there would be a run on the pharmacies and was glad I already had my medicine. I was totally disgusted when all over the Western world prescription of HCQ was banned. This is one of the most disgusting medical scandals of modern time!!!
I have just the Professor D. Raoult's book about the COVID-crisis. (Haven't received it yet, and unfortunately it has not been translated from the French yet. But the title is telling: "War Diary" ("Carnet de Guerre").
PS I saved most of the HCQ to have on hand in case my elderly mother would come down with COVID-19. However, once when I knew I had met a person who had been just been infected I started with the loading dose (and Zinc!). However, when I showed no symptoms after a week I stopped. So far, despite never being in a lock-down (Sweden), I have not been sick at all. The only thing I really have avoided is the local commuting train and underground (subway) rides.
Opposition to HCQ is RACIST.
Indians, you know.
“word “cure’ to imply a 100% effectiveness rate”
We agree on that.
There is no cure for a virus, any virus. It has to run its course and can only be treated.
I believe that the reds were attempting to refine this thing and then create their antidote for it. Vaccinate their desireables within their shit hole of a country and then release it into the world. What happened is that it got out and they panicked. Remember them welding doors shut after the herded people into their appmnts? As far as releasing it, they couldnt control it. They effed up.
It got out and it got out at the right time. The nazicRATS jumped with glee when it appeared.
BTW, it did not matter because Trump won anyway...by a landslide.
The way they carried on you would of thought it cured people of being democrat?
The media sucks.
plus it threatened their money making operation.
Good post! It discusses a study done in India, the largest to date, on using HCQ as a preventative.
(Ignore the “cure” loons kids here throwing sand at each other. The study used it as a prophylactic)
Results:
The study said, “[W]hen adjusted for other risk factors, HCQ dose as per government recommendations, 2-3, 4-5, 6 or more weeks reduced the probability of Covid positivity by 34 per cent, 48 per cent and 72 per cent.”
“The authors of this prophylactic (relating to prevention of a disease) study said that this “is the largest multicenter study on HCQ prophylaxis on HCWs (healthcare workers), covering over 12,000 HCWs at the risk of Covid-19”.
The study was conducted in May-September last year across 44 hospitals in 17 states involving hundreds of doctors, who received doses of hydroxychloroquine.”
That is HUGE!!! More egg on Fauci’s face. The disinformation campaign to demonize HCQ is criminal, imo. People need to be charged with the deaths of millions for their propaganda.
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