Hydroxychloroquine works for the China virus when prescribed within 5 days of confirmed symptoms and/or a confirmed nasal swab test, AND when part of a “cocktail”, prescribed together with either azithromycin or doxycycline, AND with Zinc.
Nearly EVERY study showing no positive or adverse affects from prescribing hydroxychloroquine is on patients who were in one or more of the following groups:
(1) ONLY prescribing hydroxychloroquine and NOT adding the antibiotic NOR the zinc;
(2) infected past the 5 days and already very lung-compromised and/or /hospitalized;
(3) immuno-compromised, and/or had pre-existing and serious pulmonary, cardio, or diabetes related illnesses;
(4) was already intubated.
Not saying it won’t help those patients (2) - (4), but hard research of other doctors reports shows its less effective in those cases.
EVERY study whether formal or anecdotal from hundreds (if not thousands) of physicians prescribing the hydroxychloroquine “cocktail” within 5 days of infection, on ambulatory patients with no serious co-morbidities showed > 90% recovery rate, with virtually no need for hospitalization, and very few deaths.
Hydroxychloroquine’s possible adverse effect on heart sinus rhythm has been known for decades as it’s long been prescribed for malaria, Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. If you have a coronary condition, speak with your cardiologist. If you are taking hydroxychloroquine (or azithromycin which can have the same effect), and your heart starts thumping, call your doctor.
AFAIK those cardio interactions are rare. Much rarer than the 80% mortality rate for virus patients who are intubated…(Search “Northwell intubated”).
I am not a doctor. But I had the virus, was not getting better after a few days, and then was prescribed the hydroxychloroquine “cocktail” as described above, and have recovered from the virus.
If you are confirmed positive somehow get a pulse oximeter and test yourself 3-4x/ day (write it down) - if before the 5th day your SPO2 dips towards or below 92, find a doctor who will prescribe the cocktail.
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transcript:
15 Jun: White House: Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion on Fighting for America’s Seniors
THE PRESIDENT: I’d like to ask Alex, maybe, to discuss that.
SECRETARY AZAR: Sure. So just to clarify: Your statement there, I don’t think, was quite accurate in what the FDA’s action was. The FDA, at the request of BARDA, which is an agency within HHS, withdrew an Emergency Use Authorization for a product that we had acquired into the National Stockpile by donation from Bayer of hydroxy- — of chloroquine that was manufactured in Pakistan. And the EUA — the Emergency Use Authorization — was restricted for hospital use — in-patient hospital use of the product, with the FDA finding that they don’t see enough data to support hospital-based use for those who are the most extreme cases of patients who have been hospitalized. They took that restriction off. They took the Emergency Use Authorization off.
At this point, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are just like any other approved drug in the United States. They may be used in hospital, they may be used in out-patient, they may be used at home — all subject to a doctor’s prescription. In fact, the FDA’s removal of the EUA takes away what had been a significant misunderstanding by many that had made people think that somehow it could only be used in a hospital setting. And we’ve tried to make that clear throughout.
It’s a drug. It’s approved in the United States. Has been for decades. If a doctor wishes to prescribe it, working with a patient, they may prescribe it for any purpose that they wish to do so. And this actually removes a potential barrier to that.
THE PRESIDENT: So it actually un-complicates it —
SECRETARY AZAR: It does.
THE PRESIDENT: — in a way. And I think that’s probably — your question was a very inaccurately stated question.
Q No, I didn’t mean to — I didn’t mean to pose it inaccurately. I believe what it said specifically was that it’s no longer reasonable to consider it an appropriate treatment.
SECRETARY AZAR: Only in the hospital. It said the data in the hospital setting was not supported. We continue to study in out-patient settings, as well as preventive. That data is not yet in.
Q Are you suggesting that data in the hospital setting is not something you would take seriously?
SECRETARY AZAR: No, that’s why the FDA acted. It was that they looked at the data and they removed the Emergency Use Authorization for hospital-setting use of the chloroquine that was the Bayer product that had been donated from Pakistan...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-discussion-fighting-americas-seniors/