Thank you, thank you, thank you. Finally an “actual paper”. The link I was was an interview with the guy and based on that I didn’t see it. Finally, an article that takes me longer than a few seconds to throw in the trash. I promise I will read it carefully in the morning. My wife is tapping her foot right now. I did glance at the conclusions. I agree there is potential to show viral clearing to decrease progression of the disease to a more sever form. Let me spend some time reading this carefully. As I have pointed out before, to have an effect on a “blue patient” a drug has to have a stunning effect. In my experience shows promise can still be a coin toss or worse in the ICU. Drugs like gentamicin which are highly effective frequently fail in the ICU.
As I have said all along, there were people taking these drugs prior. How did they do?
RE: did glance at the conclusions. I agree there is potential to show viral clearing to decrease progression of the disease to a more sever form. Let me spend some time reading this carefully.
It’s good to come to an agreement on something. Please return to this thread at your leisure and tell what you think.
RE:As I have said all along, there were people taking these drugs prior. How did they do?
There are NUMEROUS anecdotal evidences posted in this thread of people from Florida, NJ, North Carolina and other states who were rescued from death’s door and were saved as a result of taking the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. I know that these do not count to you since they are not in a controlled clinical trial setting, but there’s at least a partial answer to your question. You want to see lives saved— were these stories are your answer.
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OK. I’ve been working on this for 20 min. Remember, Inf. Dis., not my speciality. The bench stuff, i don’t understand the details. I shared some thoughts with semantic the other day, unless you are in healthcare this may seem silly and if you are. You probably already realize most of this. If so just skip it. It may help you understand what they are doing. I take back everything nasty I said about Raoult now I see the actual paper. That “journalist” clearly did him no favors but hell, I’M struggling with this. Remember this is the first paper in at least 5 years that I have looked at, for years I have been trying to forget I was ever a doctor. Now this. Anyway...