Posted on 05/02/2020 6:57:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Several US Hospitals Using 'Cheap' Hydroxychloroquine in Treatment of Covid-19 Patients: Report News18 News181 May 2020 Several US Hospitals Using 'Cheap' Hydroxychloroquine in Treatment of Covid-19 Patients: Report Several hospitals in the United States continue to use malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 positive patients, a media report said.
Medical publication, MDedge on Friday reported that (HCQ), the malaria drug, is currently the first-line therapy and Tocilizumab the second-line medication for people hospitalized with polymerase chain reaction-confirmed COVID-19 infection in the Yale New Haven Health System, which operates hospitals across Connecticut.
Hydroxychloroquine is first-line at Yale because in-vitro data shows potent inhibition of the virus and possible clinical benefit, which is about as good as evidence gets at the moment, Indian American cardiologist Nihar Desai told the medical publication.
"It's cheap, it's been used for decades, and people are relatively comfortable with it," he added.
"We are trying to do the best we can. One hopes we never have to go through anything like this (coronavirus pandemic) again," Desai told MDedge.
His home institution, Yale New Haven Hospital, is almost half full with COVID-19 patients, at more than 400, the report said.
On Friday, US Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use authorization (EUA) for the use of investigational anti-viral Remdesivir for the treatment of COVID 19 patients.
HCQ was the first drug to receive EAU from FDA for the treatment of COVID-19 patients.
US President Donald Trump has been an advocate of use of HCQ, which has reportedly cured patients in New York and several other place.
Reports indicate that the malaria drug has been effective during the initial phases of a person being infected by coronavirus but poses a danger to those having heart ailments.
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My question is how come the Remdesivir trial has already been completed and the results released.
And yet none of HCQ trials are nearing completion. The NY trials primary completion date is March 2021. And the final completion date is march 2022.
Is this not proof that big pharma has control of the system. There are other problems with the Remdesivir trials as well. I would not trust the results.
The reason is the the double blind, randomized clinical trials results were statistically significant which allow them to stop the trial and issue the report. As a result of the trialwhich was based on the established processesthe FDA issued the emergency use order.
The HCQ tests are underway and the results are not statistically significant. At least not yet.
The part that makes me shake my head is the 99% of people are coming through this. Without much of any treatment.
The folks pumping HCQ are using crappy testing and not the zinc component. I havent heard any full blown randomized double blind tests using that combination.
But....the stories are out there. And people who do not understand how testing works are shaking their fists in anger.
But...the FDA say Id docs want to use it, they can.
For Yahoo News this was a relatively unbiased article (unless they just ran it to get the hospital in trouble, which is possible), so maybe the tide is starting to change.
I’m fascinated with Bahrain’s experience. They got their first confirmed case in late February and started HCQ as a protocol within a few days.
Their results compared to the U.S. (per million people)
Bahrain
Tested 8% of population
Approx 1700 cases per mm
5 deaths per mm
1 serious/critical per mm
U.S.
Tested 2% of population
Approx 3200 cases per mm (possibly higher due to nursing homes?)
200 deaths per mm (up from 190 a few days ago)
55-60 serious/critical per mm
So, it’s not due to limited testing because they’ve tested four times more of their citizens than we have. And it’s not due to some form of innate resistance because they’ve found almost as many cases per million as we have, plus our count is probably higher because we stupidly let it run rampant in nursing homes in New York.
It just looks like they figured out a way to stop the virus from killing people, one that maybe we could try too? Oh, and nothing about zinc in the news I read, but they did receive another shipment of HCQ from India in late April.
Now that the country’s opening back up, they can start revealing what we knew all along. But too late to have given it to everyone in the country who wanted it, as a preventative. You know, and not have to shut the friken country down.
I assume that HCQ poses the same danger to people who take the drug for malaria, lupus, etc., and yet it is still widely prescribed.
[The part that makes me shake my head is the 99% of people are coming through this. Without much of any treatment.]
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
And the mortality rate among people needing inpatient medical treatment far higher?
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A more sagacious post I’ve never seen.
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