Posted on 04/10/2020 6:10:37 PM PDT by cba123
Nevada’s osteopaths want Gov. Steve Sisolak to reverse his emergency regulation limiting the routine prescribing of two existing anti-malarial drugs to treat COVID-19, saying it interferes with their rights as doctors.
Sisolak’s March 24 regulation applies to chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, drugs long in use to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and now undergoing clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment. The drugs have been repeatedly touted by President Trump despite potential health risks and inconclusive proof that they are effective against the illness, which as of Friday had killed more than 100,000 people worldwide.
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Really.
Our system is broken, corrupt, and sold out.
Hydroxychloroquine. It is the reason India is virtually patient-free.
Hydroxychloroquine.
I know the headline reads Chloroquine, but really it is Hydroxychloroquine which is the big reason.
RE: Hello, India has only 7,600 total cases
How widespread is their testing compared to ours?
They have 4 times our population.
You don’t get it.
Indians use Hydroxychloroquine for malaria.
They are basically IMMUNE to COVID-19.
(My view)
Th example of India has convinced me that 95% of covid-19 infections occur with touching a surface previously touched by infected person, then you pick up the virus on your hands, then you touch your face and the virus is in.
Indians have a few things going for them.
1. very hot beginning in March
2. greeting by Namaste instead of handshake
3. when I was in India long time ago, merchandise in stores was behind counters, so customers never touched it and left it behind
4. India was carefully checking travelers coming in from infected places
5. almost no Chinese people vacation in crowded India
(India population density is 12 times USA)
Agreed on use of HCQ. But I doubt if Indians are immune to a brand new virus. Also please see my post above.
Indians produce 70% of the world’s Hydroxychloroquine.
That are basically IMMUNE to COVID-19.
(My humble opinion)
And the Go-Slow’ers in our medical and democrat establishment, by stalling, are basically murdering thousands of Americans.
Sorry, but I really feel that way.
“(Hello, India has only 7,600 total cases)”
Maybe something in Indian food that mimics chemical properties found in Chlorquine?
They have a significant malaria problem.
They TAKE hydroxychloroquine.
They make a ton of the stuff. Something like 70% of the entire globe’s supply.
Because they USE IT.
It only takes one pill per week.
(My understanding)
“Indians use Hydroxychloroquine for malaria.”
In that same vein, I wondered about cruise crews. Although there are hundreds of WuFlu reported among passengers, but very few among the crew. (I know there are some, but not many.) I wonder if a requirement for being able to work is having to take the typical inoculations for malaria and other diseases in the exotic and s**thole countries they dock. If so, maybe that’s why there are so few cases.
India has tone of the fastest growing caseloads in the world.
I am pretty sure they are not handing out drugs like apex candies in the slums.
Synthetic heard immunity by wide spread use of Hydroxychloroquine.
I wonder how many Doctors in the US are taking it as a preventive and how many have gotten sick.
In Italy 8% of the dead were healthcare professionals.
Should be pretty easy to do a comparison between US and Italy.
However many Doc’s in the US probably won’t admit that they are taking it because of the media hate.
Then please explain why Africa has hardly any COVID-19 cases.
Herd not Heard!
Could be because of a combo of:
Anti-tuberculosis BCG vaccine in widespread use there from @1948, and universal since 1965 (yes, thats a thing, and the correlations are interesting).
Weather/climate
Other widespread pathogens for which the population has some resistance, giving collateral benefit re coronavirus. It must take a pretty good immune system for the common man to survive there at all.
Quinine/modern versions use is possible but I doubt a large minority of Indians, and especially of urban Indians, take it prophylactically.
I have more relatives in India than any poster on FR, and I am not hearing from them what you said.
The crew of the Diamond Princess included many Filipinos, of which some three dozen or so tested positive. They were repatriated to the Philippines and were held in quarantine until they no longer tested positive. These people had no symptoms or mild ones. They were fairly young (all under 50 IIRC). That is typical of cruise crews.
I grew up with bitter tasting quinine tablets forced down my throat by my vigilant mother in India. I don’t know if it was HCQ, but it was extremely bitter if tongue touched it. But I never had Malaria until age 20 when I left India.
Cruise ship crew are mostly in their 20’s.
The passengers average age is closer to 65.
covid-19 is mostly asymptomatic in very young people.
Published stats in India show very few cases and deaths as a % of the population. This is also true of almost all third world countries, with the major exception of Iran (and China of course).
It could be that this is because of very limited testing, but the death rate would be a givaway, especially as it should hit the wealthy/upper middle class first and hardest, as is the general pattern in the third world, and that is hard to miss - see Iran.
At this time coronavirus is mainly a problem of rich western countries.
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