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Thousands of Doctors: Yes, Hydroxychloroquine Works Against Wuhan Coronavirus
Townhall ^ | 04/07/2020 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 04/07/2020 6:17:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Over the past three weeks, there's been debate over whether hydroxychloroquine, a drug used for decades to treat malaria, can help ease the symptoms of Wuhan coronavirus. During White House press briefings, reporters have done their best to shoot down the possibility.

But doctors around the country and the world are using it and seeing positive results.

First, in Los Angeles:

Dr. Anthony Cardillo said he has seen very promising results when prescribing hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc for the most severely-ill COVID-19 patients.

"Every patient I've prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free," Cardillo told Eyewitness News. "So clinically I am seeing a resolution."

Cardillo is the CEO of Mend Urgent Care, which has locations in Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys and Burbank.

He said he has found it only works if combined with zinc. The drug, he said, opens a channel for the zinc to enter the cell and block virus replication.

"We have to be cautious and mindful that we don't prescribe it for patients who have COVID who are well," Cardillo said. "It should be reserved for people who are really sick, in the hospital or at home very sick, who need that medication. Otherwise we're going to blow through our supply for patients that take it regularly for other disease processes."

New York:

Dr. Mohammud Alam, an infectious disease specialist affiliated with Plainview Hospital, said 81 percent of infected covid patients he treated at three Long Island nursing homes recovered from the contagion.

“In this crisis, I realized I had to do something,” Alam said. ”I realized if this was my dad, what would I do? And I would do anything I could to help.”

Alam said he decided he could not apply the touted combination of the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine and antibiotic azithromycin because the side effects could be potentially fatal for his high-risk patients, many of whom had underlying heart issues.

So instead, Alam replaced azithromycin with another decades-old antibiotic that doesn’t pose any known risks to the heart.

New Jersey:

Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of The Smith Center for Infectious Diseases and Urban Health, said on “The Ingraham Angle” on Wednesday night that he is optimistic about the use of antimalarial medications and antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, calling it “a game-changer.”

Smith, who is treating 72 COVID-19 patients, said that he has been treating "everybody with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin [an antibiotic]. We’ve been doing so for a while.”

He pointed out that not a single COVID-19 patient of his that has been on the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin regimen for five days or more has had to be intubated.

Around the world:

An international poll of thousands of doctors rated the Trump-touted anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine the best treatment for the novel coronavirus.

Of the 6,227 physicians surveyed in 30 countries, 37 percent rated hydroxychloroquine the “most effective therapy” for combating the potentially deadly illness, according to the results released Thursday.

The survey, conducted by the global health care polling company Sermo, also found that 23 percent of medical professionals had prescribed the drug in the US — far less than other countries.

"Outside the US, hydroxychloroquine was equally used for diagnosed patients with mild to severe symptoms whereas in the US it was most commonly used for high risk diagnosed patients,” the survey found.

The medicine was most widely used in Spain, where 72 percent of physicians said they had prescribed it.

It's working, which is why President Trump is touting its use.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; hcq; hcqzpac; hcqzpaczinc; hydroxychloroquine; zinczinczinc
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1 posted on 04/07/2020 6:17:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, but what do 4 out of 5 dentists have to say?


2 posted on 04/07/2020 6:17:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SeekAndFind

And yet the slime media continue to claim it’s wrong, since Trump stated that it was a possibility months ago.

I love schadenfreude.


3 posted on 04/07/2020 6:21:21 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And if this is true we’ve known this for over a month and why are we still in lock down? I thought there was lots of this drug and easy to make more


4 posted on 04/07/2020 6:22:39 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: SeekAndFind

And 97% of scientists agree that the oceans are evaporating and will flood coastlines.


5 posted on 04/07/2020 6:24:52 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: datricker

I guess Peter Navarro should have cleaned Fauci’s clock in a meeting a month ago.


6 posted on 04/07/2020 6:25:08 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: datricker

Easy to make more, but the United States shipped most manufacturing of pharmaceuticals overseas. Thank a free trader for that.

The drug only has a three year shelf life, so supplies on hand are limited.


7 posted on 04/07/2020 6:26:42 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yes but what do 4 out of 5 reporters recommend


8 posted on 04/07/2020 6:33:19 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: SeekAndFind

Do not give to anyone at the guardian, the AP, or any democrat who has criticized Trump over it.


9 posted on 04/07/2020 6:34:29 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: I want the USA back

Which is many of them, on that last.


10 posted on 04/07/2020 6:43:12 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thousands of Doctors ???


11 posted on 04/07/2020 6:43:48 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: MrEdd
Easy to make more, but the United States shipped most manufacturing of pharmaceuticals overseas. Thank a free trader for that.

Or thank people who demand low-cost meds. By the way, most on-patent meds used by Americans are produced in the US. Most cheap generics Americans use are made overseas. All about costs.

12 posted on 04/07/2020 6:57:18 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: TimSkalaBim

Physics and chemistry are not different in different parts of the world.

I worked in manufacturing for many years after I got out of the military.

We taxed and regulated our manufacturing industry overseas and that doesn’t have one damned thing to do with greedy consumers. Unions and labor costs are also comparatively minor factors.

And this is true across all manufacturing.


13 posted on 04/07/2020 7:19:59 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

Thanks thats a very plausible reason - now they need to get on making more and fast.


14 posted on 04/07/2020 7:23:57 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: SeekAndFind

And like that, Trump won the 2020 Presidential election.

They are even calling them ‘Trump Pills’.

And Fauci is in big trouble. Gave a thumbs up to Jon Karl after that BS press conference wherein he brought in a CCP Propagandist posing as a reporter.

The news conference today should be very interesting.

And the way the President is running those press conferences, he is making sure there is enough drama in there with the Press to garner RATINGS. People are tuning in to see what he’s going to do next.

To an extent, he’s taking a page out of that chef’s handbook that just hammers aspiring chef’s that don’t have their stuff wired tight. The guy is an incredible teacher. My kid is lucky enough to have a benevolent drill sergeant as a Diesel Mechanic instructor.


15 posted on 04/07/2020 7:25:48 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: SeekAndFind

Why is the media so opposed to hydroxychloriquine treatment for coranovirus? They are overwhelmingly pro choice when it comes to a woman’s body and abortion. Shouldn’t they be pro choice when it comes to our bodies and this treatment? They say the government should not come between women and their doctors. Shouldn’t the same apply to the rest of us? Could it be that they are so hateful of the president that they refuse to admit he might be right about something???


16 posted on 04/07/2020 7:30:11 AM PDT by Skeptical constituent
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To: datricker
Thanks thats a very plausible reason - now they need to get on making more and fast.

Agreed. And I'd think it's gotta be easier to make than respirators are.
17 posted on 04/07/2020 7:35:23 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Java4Jay
Thousands of Doctors ???

6227 * .37= 2303

Of the 6,227 physicians surveyed in 30 countries, 37 percent rated hydroxychloroquine the “most effective therapy” for combating the potentially deadly illness, according to the results released Thursday.
18 posted on 04/07/2020 7:37:11 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Depends on whether they stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night...


19 posted on 04/07/2020 7:42:46 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The zinc use with HCQ & Zpac seems to be producing YUGE resolution.
I hope more doctors are doing it and saving American lives.

DemonRat Media hardest hit.


20 posted on 04/07/2020 7:48:02 AM PDT by romanesq (8Chan & its child porn are kaput & all the crap with it. Trump-Pence 2020! Magacoalition.com)
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