Posted on 04/17/2020 5:15:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
RE: Dr. Armstrong reminded the reporter that hydroxychloroquine is not a cure for COVID-19. He said in his experience, though, it does reduce the severity of the symptoms.
So, the patients were still Covid-19 positive even with reduced symptom severity? That’s how I understand Dr. Armstrong.
How do they become negative then Doctor?
Orange Man still bad....
> How do they become negative
If you live through a flu virus, you become negative on the infection itself, and positive on antibodies.
Reducing the severity of the infection is what HCQ does. You are still infected, just not as strongly.
For later.
This shows many flaws within the medical profession.
As well as good news.
Doctors put too much stock in their own opinions.
Doctors put too much stock in other doctors/doctor groups’ opinions as well.
To the detriment of themselves and others.
RE: Reducing the severity of the infection is what HCQ does. You are still infected, just not as strongly.
Thanks. Didier Raoult’s studies show total clearing of the virus in his studies within 5 to 6 days.
I wish this journalist could continue to follow up with Dr. Armstrong and not stop here.
39 out of 56 were treated with HDQ and 38 recovered with one patient questionable.
The big question, what about the 17 patients who were NOT treated with HDQ.
RE: The big upside is that those treated with HCQ don’t have to go on a ventilator.
With the proviso that HCQ + Azithromycin + Zinc combo is administered WITHIN 3 days of positive diagnosis and onset of symptoms. With this, patients get better within 5 to 6 days and even do not need to be hospitalized.
Do not wait till the symptoms become very severeand the lungs become weakened by hypoxic pneumonia. If you use HCQ at that stage, the results are not as impressive.
RE: The big question, what about the 17 patients who were NOT treated with HDQ.
Yes, a good journalist would have asked this question. Unfortunately, we don’t know from this article. Too bad, these could have been akin to a randomized double blind study.
Orange Man still bad...
” Now it is being reported that 39 elderly people gave Armstrong permission to treat them with hydroxychloroquine. Fifty-six residents contracted the virus.
Armstrong wasn’t willing to watch 15% of the nursing home die without doing something. Using President Trump’s line of reasoning – what the hell do you have to lose? – he prescribed the drug. “I thought the risk of seeing 15% of that nursing home die was just not acceptable,” he said of the residents at The Resort at Texas City.”
From this, I think he’s saying he treated all 56 anyway. Not clear writing, but that’s what I took from it. Seems to me if you make your living writing, you should be able to communicate clearly, but, hey, that’s just me. What does a paperhanger know?
RE: I’m glad you mentioned the early start and complete regimen of HCQ + AZ + Zinc. The is the path that Dr. Zelenko took with overwhelming success
Thanks. And I would like to add this -— those who design their trials to administer these HCQ combo on patients at the severe and later stage of their Covid-19 sickness, are setting themselves up NOT to succeed.
If you want to replicate the successful trials made by Dr. Raoult in Marseille ( twice done, the latest one with over a thousand patients ) and Dr. Zelenko in Upstate NY with nearly a thousand patients, then you MUST follow their patient profiles AND their protocols.
Armstrong wasn’t willing to watch 15% of the nursing home die without doing something. Using President Trump’s line of reasoning – what the hell do you have to lose? – he prescribed the drug. “I thought the risk of seeing 15% of that nursing home die was just not acceptable,” he said of the residents at The Resort at Texas City.
Now that the five-day trial is completed, Dr. Armstrong was interviewed this week about the results. At first, he couched his answer by saying “most” of the patients have done well.
Perhaps you are correct but I would have to believe if that’s indeed correct, the physician potentially put himself in legal jeopardy.
Why no mention of Zinc? Was the trial not including upping the zinc?
So, the other 17 patients did not do well then?
To be more explicit, 38 of 39 who were administered with HCQ did well with one still pending. What about the other 17? Do we assume that they did not respond well to it at all?
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