Posted on 04/22/2020 11:41:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been working in COVID-19 patients, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie said on Wednesday.
Wilkie’s comments come after a study looking at the effects of the drug in 368 patients in Veterans Health Administration hospitals found no evidence the drug is effective against COVID-19, a new disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
Responding to the results during an appearance on MSNBC, Wilkie said, “That’s just an observational study. It’s not a clinical study. It was done on a small number of veterans; sadly, those of whom were in the last stages of life, and the drug was given to them.”
The drug “has been working on middle-age and younger veterans,” Wilkie added. By that, he meant that it was “stopping the progression of” COVID-19.
The study in question can help inform doctors who are caring for veterans who have the CCP virus, Wilkie said.
Doctors across the nation have been prescribing hydroxychloroquine but there are a number of concerns about its effectiveness and, if it proves effective, medical workers want to pinpoint the correct dosage information and other matters regarding how and when to prescribe it.
Clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine are underway in Minnesota, Tennessee, and New York. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the Empire State, asked for more doses of the drug to be delivered to New York City while in the Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, according to Wilkie.
Also this week, doctors and experts on a panel created by the National Institutes of Health said they were recommending against using hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin, an antibiotic also known as Z-Pak.
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None that I know of. I know there are reports of prolonged QTc interval in patients treated with this combo.
I’ll take that risk. I’m sure it beats hypoxia.
Here is the interview. Check out this bitch interviewer though. The thing about the study is near the end of the interview.
A “clinical trial” which only administers the drug to terminal patients, rather than to patients EARLY in their infection, is a trial implicitly designed to fail.
Need to also use the Z Pack or no good.
See this little bit...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3837463/posts
Methinks there IS a very sinister agenda from the left.
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[[It is medical malpractice to give a deliberate under-dose to a patient, knowing that other protocols using HCQ with zinc + z pack can work successfully]]
But sadly none of them doing so will be prosecuted or lose their license
I can not believe, that with all the anecdotal evidence proving a ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ case that the combo drugs work very well, that liberal media pukes, and liberal governors, are resisting this drug at the expense of 1000’s of lives-It just speaks to the saturated unadulterated Evil that exists in this world
Here’s the really sick thing- those opposing it will be the first to demand they get the drugs if they themselves, God forbid, should get sick
Ping.
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IF it gets mentioned in the press at all, the lead in will be The Trump appointed VA Chief today said.......
Expect a Wave of MSM articles reporting this comment.
NOT!
In March “New York state will begin using trial drugs Tuesday to combat the rise in coronavirus cases, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday. The state has secured 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 of Zithromax, and 750,000 of chloroquine, he said during a news conference.”
At the time he said he would report on the results. A couple days ago New York sent their preliminary results to the FDA and CDC; but Cuomo would not answer reporter questions about the results.
When Trump was asked if he and Cuomo discussed the results during their face to face meeting two days ago Trump said they didn’t discuss it which surprised me.
Today VA Chief said in an MSNBC interview that “Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the Empire State, asked for more doses of the drug to be delivered to New York City while in the Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, according to Wilkie.”
I’m going to interpret that as indicating the results were favorable.
[[Not really. we have doctors on this forum who are still not supplementing with Zinc sulfate.]]
HCQ, from what i read on it, opens up the virus cells, while the Zinc goes in and either kills hte cells, or makes them so they can’t replicate- without hte HCQ- zinc can’t inactivate, or lessen the effects, of the virus cells from what i understand of hte combo
You would think that doctors would have looked into this fact since this info has been out for some time now- Doctors should, i would think, be very interested in the mechanism of the virus, the drugs, and the zinc- it’s what htey do- investigate these types of things- but for some reason ,they are resisting the combo
Bump
“””If you have any heart issues, they can swap to doxycycline in place of Z-Pak”””
I spoke with my doctor last week and he said the same thing about using doxycycline instead of zpak.
This is like the fog of war FFS. Everybody needs to get their friggin story straight.
Dr. Zelenko from Monroe, NJ is not just using the triple HCQ therapy on Jewish people. He’ll write a prescription for people in surrounding areas who need it too.
He’s now well into four-figures in patients and his track is astoundingly good. But you will not see the kind of media coverage this BS limited “study” received.
Hey, no big pharma agenda here. It’s a coincidence.
[[All of these reports saying HC is ineffective despite massive anecdotal reports are suspicious.]]
It’s evil- they are rewriting science- just like they do with global warming- they ignore the facts, and make claims that simply aren’t supported by the facts, but they persist- till the masses fall for it out of sheer info exhaustion-
naturally, not a single fake stream enemedia outlet will relay this information, but instead will continue to broadcast the fake VA “study” ... it blows my mind that the media hates President Trump so much that they’re actively and
deliberately engaging in mass murder just to try to destroy President Trump ...
Boom
the antibiotic is just incase some infections crop up during the battle- it doesn’t really do anything other than combat anything that crops up while a person is being treated- like pneumonia or bronchial infection
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