And just what is wrong with fins?..................
Posted on 03/20/2020 6:26:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Trump announced in a press conference Thursday that chloroquine phosphate -- a substance found in drugs used to treat malaria and severe arthritis -- was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test as a treatment for the coronavirus.
That same substance, outside its pharmaceutical form, is used as an additive in aquariums to kill microscopic organisms that might harm fish and other aquatic animals. And, the prices for chloroquine phosphate have surged online in late February and early March, according to a study published Thursday, sparking fears that people may be ingesting the fish-tank additive in the hope it will combat COVID-19 illnesses.
The study, conducted by Storyful before Trump named the drug publicly Thursday, analyzed three identical listings from the same eBay seller, “thechemicalsource,” who opened bids on bottles of chloroquine phosphate used in aquariums for one week. Between February 25 and March 2, the price paid for a single 25-gram bottle of chloroquine phosphate skyrocketed from $9.99 to more than $500, the study said. The seller warned in each listing that the substance was not for human consumption.
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I heard an MD say on Breitbart this morning that, out of curiosity, she called several pharmacies about their supply. All of the pharmacies that she called were “sold out”. There must be a run on this drug!
...and if this doesn’t help, you can always drink bleach.
Assuming you don’t go blind from an overdose of fish tank medicine...................
Just a little worse than a rash.
What we should do is pray that in ten days it is clear we don’t need to give tens of thousands of people Chloroquine.
Just from one pill? That is scary!
“First do no harm.” It’s a fault in the way I was raised. I have this absolute obsession with integrity. It has been my downfall, frankly. This compunction to take oaths and then keep them.
Yeah, but what was the dosage that lead people to kill/suicide?
Assuming you don’t go blind from an overdose of fish tank medicine..................
Or grow fins.
Yes but I wonder if the lower dose in a glass of tonic water might not have prophylactic effect in delaying or blunting onset and causing a more subdued and less prolonged disease course. You start drink 2 or 3 glasses a day so that there is measurable quinine in your system should the virus be taken up...before the colonies can replicate, the residual quinine acts to take it out.
I am unaware of any studies that have been able to collect enough data for a dose response curve. You may have your own opinion about his drug and you are welcome to it. I have mine.
Hopefully they will donate them elsewhere since there seems to be a shortage.
During the US involvement in Vietnam, a weekly dose of adebrine(sp), infamously called “the orange horse pill” due to their color and size, was supposed to taken by in-country personnel as a prophylactic measure against malaria. Any relation to Chloroquine?
Where possible, the usual administration for the medication was a corpsman coming around with a bottle of pills and personally watching you take it (usually with a mouth check afterwards to make sure you did swallow it down). If you were lucky, he even brought along a canteen of water to help get them down. But sometimes it was just your squad leader coming around and handing out the universally disliked tablets - with you taking them on your own.
With the possible exception of gamma globulin (sp) shots,I never had a personal problem with taking any shot or pill meant to protect me from disease.
My willingness to choke down the horse tablets only increased when one of my fellow Marines in Vietnam came down with malaria because he had been skipping the pills. We were in the rear at the time and he came into the tent after lights out drunk from the club. He thrashed about for awhile in the dark (including trying to get into several already occupied cots) before we got him into his own bed.
But he began to moan and toss around and wouldn’t settle down (despite a lot of shouts and threatening from his irritated tent mates). Eventually, we realized this might be more than just drunkenness and a corpsman was summoned. After a pen light examination and an interrogation by the irritated-to-be-woken-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night-AGAIN!-for-this-s_ _ _-corpsman, he was pronounced to be in the onset stage of malaria and hauled off to Sickbay.
Being Marines, we shrugged, got back in our cots, fussed with our poncho liners, and went to sleep.
As I recall, he was evacuated to the big US Navy hospital at Cam Rahn Bay - for 6 weeks? Anyway, he looked pretty beat-up when he eventually returned to the battalion. He wasn’t there very long. Didn’t go back out to a letter company; just picked up his stored belongings, got orders, and rotated home.
When you rotated Stateside, you were given a half dozen of the horse pills to continue the protective coverage. When you were given them, you got a warning from the corpsmen that the drug hadn’t/didn’t actually prevent you from getting malaria. It just delayed the onset of symptoms. So, you were told not to ignore the onset of flu-like sickness if it occurred once you stopped taking the drug.
In my case, I got to take the pills a bit longer. After my leave, I reported to an antiaircraft missile unit at MCAS Yuma, AZ. Since it was an alert unit, we had to maintain deployment levels of immunization (to include taking the weekly horse tablet along with a raft of shots). Fun times.
And just what is wrong with fins?..................
Probably they were sent home with the students. Those were all children’s size. Early this week we don’t 100 adult masks to the health care workers going door to door in the neighborhood.
Well you've been telling everyone here on FR about how much experience you have and how you've written more scrips for this than anybody here, and suddenly, you have no data?
What you have is no credibility. At least I can now put you on the ignore list.
Wow, you might see a whole new business spring up. Cleaning aquariums by having folks lick them clean. Of course by prescription only. /S
My dog will do that!.....................
The effectiveness of this drug against Coronavirus was established back in 2005. The results were published in a medical journal devoted to virology. Does anyone believe that not one person at the CDC or FDA were able to put this research on the table as a possible response two months ago? Did CDC ignore this treatment? Follow the money. Does this treatment also apply to the Influenza virus?
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-2-69
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