Posted on 04/28/2020 12:30:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
TUSCON, Ariz., April 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently updated table of studies that report results of treating COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, Plaquenil®).
To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.
The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003. Particularly when combined with zinc, they hinder viral entry into cells and inhibit replication. They may also prevent overreaction by the immune system, which causes the cytokine storm responsible for much of the damage in severe cases, explains AAPS. HCQ is often very helpful in treating autoimmune diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Additional benefits shown in some studies, AAPS states, is to decrease the number of days when a patient is contagious, reduce the need for ventilators, and shorten the time to clinical recovery.
Peer-reviewed studies published from January through April 20, 2020, provide clear and convincing evidence that HCQ may be beneficial in COVID-19, especially when used early, states AAPS.
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HERE’S THE CONTENT OF THE LETTER FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
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The Honorable Doug Ducey
1700 West Washington St.
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Dear Governor Ducey:
This concerns your Executive Order forbidding prophylactic use of chloroquine (CQ) or hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) unless peer-reviewed evidence becomes available.
Attached and posted here (https://bit.ly/cqhcqresearch) is a summary of peer-reviewed evidence, indexed in PubMed, concerning the use of CQ and HCQ against coronavirus. We believe that there is clear and convincing evidence of benefit both pre-exposure and post-exposure.
In addition, Michael J. A. Robb, M.D., of Phoenix is compiling all reports as they come in. As of this date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without azithromycin and zinc, is 2,333. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.
Most of the data concerns use of HCQ for treatment, but one study included used the medication as prophylaxis with excellent results. Many nations, including Turkey and India, are protecting medical workers and contacts of infected persons prophylactically. According to worldometers.info, deaths per million persons from COVID-19 as of Apr 27 are 167 in the U.S., 33 in Turkey, and 0.6 in India.
Based on this evidence, we request that you rescind your Executive Orders impeding the use of CQ and HCQ and further order that administrative agencies not impose any requirements on the prescription of CQ, HCQ, azithromycin, or other drugs intended to treat or prevent coronavirus illness that do not apply equally to all approved medications that may be used off-label for any purpose.
Respectfully,
Michael J. A. Robb, M.D.
President, Arizona State Chapter of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Executive Director, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
CC Speaker Rusty Bowers, Rep. Warren Petersen, Rep. Nancy Barto, Sen. Karen Fann, Sen. Rick Gray, and Sen. Kate Brophy-McGee
Attachments:
Sequential CQ / HCQ Research Papers and Reports, January to April 20, 2020 https://bit.ly/cqhcqresearch
The probabilities of clinical success using hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and zinc against the novel betacoronavirus, COVID-19, revised Apr 26, 2020 https://bit.ly/hcqtable
The FDA ok’d HCQ for off label use, not for just use in hospitals
RE: The FDA ok’d HCQ for off label use, not for just use in hospitals
I think the FDA changed their mind afterwards.
See here:
https://time.com/5827085/fda-warning-hydroxychloroquine/
The FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to allow doctors to use the drug on hospitalized patients whose symptoms are not improving.
In other words, you have to be ALREADY IN THE HOSPITAL for HCQ to be prescribed. All other studies tell us that HCQ and its cocktail combo are BEST USED *BeFORE* a patient’s condition is so bad that he requires hospitalization.
The only reason the media was ever against using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 was because President Trump said that it might be very useful in treatment.
There is no bottom to their barrel of hate.
Hundreds of Doctors are using their authority to prescribe HCQ combination therapy without hospitalization.
Lack of FDA approval is not a de facto law against prescribing HCQ. MD’s can and do prescribe it in whatever setting they deem fit.
Usually, drugs need to be FDA approved before an MD takes on ‘liability’ of prescribing it.
However, with HCA, it has FDA approval in hospitals which tells an MD there is no liability to prescribing it even in an an outpatient setting.
Furthermore, HCQ is well known to be safe so there’s no downside to prescribing it in an outpatient setting.
If a doctor prescribes HCQ to a patient along with Azithromycin and Zinc, no pharmacy is going to question the doctors prescription.
For Fauci, Gates and the Vaccine Lobby to stop doctors from prescribing HCQ outside hospital settings, they would have to force the FDA to issue an order to do so. That’s not going to happen. So they’ve resorted to attempts to frighten people and smear the safety and efficacy of HCQ + Azithromycin + Zinc. But that’s not working either.
RE: I have taken plenty of Chloroquine doses to treat malaria in my lifetime and I am still strong and healthy, despite being old.
What is the difference between plain Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine?
The other words, the FDA is making sure that patients take it too late for it to be of much use.
Everyone should be allowed to take it, in consultation with their doctor. No use waiting till someone is nearly dead before giving it to them, then screaming it doesn’t work.
RE: Lack of FDA approval is not a de facto law against prescribing HCQ. MD’s can and do prescribe it in whatever setting they deem fit.
In the State of NY, Many Doctors are RELUCTANT to prescribe Hydroxychloroquine on an outpatient basis ( where its most successful usage have been ) for fear of being prosecuted by the state or sued. They wait until a patient is so ill that he needs to be hospitalized to try it ( which of course is NOT where the most successful cases are ).
The POINT of using Hydroxychloroquine is TO PREVENT hospitalization. That’s what the successful doctors recommend.
Hydroxychloroquine has less side effects.
[[The only reason the media was ever against using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 was because President Trump said that it might be very useful in treatment.]]
President Trump should come out and whole heatedly push for Bill Gate’s vaccine then lol
While that’s one reason they didn’t/don’t want it to work, the bigger reason they didn’t want it to work is to get their vaccine.
We have the ability to use any med off label FDA statement only allows the manufacturer to say approved for...
Chloroquine has side affects whereas Hydroxychloroquine does the same thing but without the sides
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