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Vital drug for people with lupus running out after unproven Covid-19 link: Italy and France now prescribing hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus
The Guardian ^ | 03/28/2020 | Sarah Boseley

Posted on 03/28/2020 8:04:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Norseman

Sure....if you will do the same


141 posted on 03/28/2020 3:58:57 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Communists Need To Be Eliminated)
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To: redgolum
I did read it.

Was the website wrong?

142 posted on 03/28/2020 3:59:11 PM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: Wonder Warthog

I follow very well.

I have an Excel spreadsheet featuring the world, Italy, South Korea (have a look at them!), and the US including minus WA state, the hardest hit with fatalities.

I make regression models on them to see how they’re going.

Italy is in terrible shape, but why is that? Is it the factors already discussed - many Chinese direct workers, older population, high smoking prevalence? Socialist medicine? Does it also include scuttlebutt about Italy calling anyone who dies that had COVID as having died FROM it?

No, true, it’s not great, but I still need more context - what do other diseases do, how does this disease ACTUALLY act (not “we’re all gonna die!!!!” hysteria) - I’m seeing MANY people simply get over it within the week, if not in a few days.

I don’t totally know yet that this is the Black Plague. Don’t laugh that off glibly. It’s easy to extrapolate that the latter had at least a death rate of 40% - 40%+! That’s guaranteed death. Even if we halve it to account for great advances - that’s still damn scary. Yet we’re hysterical over a 5% (at best, unless you’re Italy) rate.

I’m not willing to just go with what politicos - and that MAJORLY includes Dems - tell us to do (hide, hoard, etc).


143 posted on 03/28/2020 4:31:57 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
"Yet we’re hysterical over a 5% (at best, unless you’re Italy) rate."

So use your mathematical expertise and calculate 5% of 300,000,000. Sorry, but I don't want to see the US go there.

144 posted on 03/28/2020 4:38:12 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: gogeo

No. But how many doses are needed? Also note the comment in the article about the FDA. They are trying like mad to slow walk this. Also, the article did not say if the tablets are here. Many countries are grabbing them and not letting them be exported.

The WV plant restarting is good news, but I do wonder where the active ingredients are being supplied from.


145 posted on 03/28/2020 4:52:18 PM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

I have been searching for the answer to the question: Has hard hit Italy used chloroquine and/or hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19?

The answer: Apparently until now, NO!!!

What a dreadful shame... so many lives may have been saved.

An extremely loud argument against socialized healthcare. Apparently, Italy does not allow “off label” use of drugs until deemed OK by “authorities”.


146 posted on 03/28/2020 6:03:40 PM PDT by Synthesist ("The only thing we have to fear is fear itself")
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To: Norseman

Three ounces of oysters delivers 80 mg zinc to the diet. Nothing else tasty comes as close.


147 posted on 03/28/2020 10:32:52 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: redgolum

I’ll throw out a possibility: Spool up production, but take advantage of the fact that this drug is used all over the qorld. HCQ is provided to many millions of people worldwide. There are many countries where there are supplies as a prophylactic for malaria, but are not heavily hit by Covid-19. Mr Trump can use his deal-making skills to purchase from their stocks, at a premium, of course.


148 posted on 03/28/2020 10:47:39 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Chaguito

My wife takes the drug every day for lupus. Very safe for a couple of weeks. It can create problems in ocular health over the long haul.


149 posted on 03/28/2020 10:59:47 PM PDT by RobyOnekanobee
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To: kagoots

You can still order various formulations of quinine online, in stock, even from Amazon. I did.


150 posted on 03/28/2020 11:14:49 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: RobyOnekanobee

My sister-in-law has taken it for 22 years for RA, with no side effects.


151 posted on 03/28/2020 11:16:25 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: SeekAndFind

Pain Clinic for Meds, Rheumatologist, lung , liver, Kidney, and primary, docs, what is lacking is the Cardio. Jacksonian seizures is Neurologist. Minques Ligament has been torn 3 times, and is no longer fixable. Given the rapid advancement 5-7 yrs. She may not live to see her oldest who will be 15 in July, graduate. And given his Duchenes MD he has maybe 15-20 yrs, once they hit wheelchair stage they go down hill fast.


152 posted on 03/29/2020 6:53:51 AM PDT by GailA (I'm a Trump Girl)
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