Posted on 08/04/2020 6:40:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Early in health officials’ response to the pandemic, one drug offered hope of a safe, widely available, and cheap therapeutic that would break the death grip that COVID-19 held on the world.
However, after its promised efficacy didn’t materialize in large, statistically significant numbers, enthusiasm for the drug, hydroxychloroquine, quickly waned. Why, then, has it made its way back into the headlines?
When it was first suggested that hydroxychloroquine may be an effective antiviral against the new coronavirus, which scientists call SARS-CoV-2, the U.S. government purchased and delivered the drug by the millions of doses even before research could prove its efficacy.
At the time, what scarce data was available suggested it would work, and waiting much longer would’ve been unethical. After all, the drug has a decadeslong history of use to treat malaria.
But with those millions of doses being administered, clinicians found only mixed results. Some, as in the early French trial, found tremendous success, while many others found no clinical benefit.
Thus, the buzz surrounding hydroxychloroquine began to die down and it nearly was forgotten in the news cycle, until early July when the results of 2,500-person study were published by the Henry Ford COVID-19 Task Force.
That study found that among those who received hydroxychloroquine, the mortality was 13.5%. This compares to those who received none of the studied drugs, among whom the mortality was 26.4%.
The group of patients who received hydroxychloroquine alone suffered about half the mortality of the baseline group. Note that this is different from saying hydroxychloroquine “was responsible for reducing mortality by half.”
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
PING!
This is a good link to multiple HCQ studies:
They can’t all be wrong!
https://c19study.com/
Nearly forgotten... roflol. Only by the idiot press !
Mangle’s boys Anthony Fauxi and microSoftkill Bill won’t like that news.
...at the start of World War II, then transferred to the Nazi concentration camps service in early 1943 and assigned to Auschwitz, where he saw the opportunity to conduct genetic research on human subjects.
Gain of function must go on.
Historical archetypes.
Mengele’s boys
I saw no mention of the various agendas at play, which betrays an agenda of its own.
When are these idiots going to realize it’s the ZINC (delivered as Zinc Sulfate) that stops the virus from replicating. HCQ opens the cell wall for the Zinc to enter. This a two drug weapon... the HCQ is the gun and the Zinc is the bullet.
Not necessarily, the writer is trying to be very moderate and balanced in order appeal to the mushy middle by not being stridently anti-left, anti media, etc.
Just a nice polite explanation that the science is still out due to various study limitations but they still show a correlation to improved outcomes and maybe everyone should just let the clinicians do their jobs and stop second guessing them or directing how they do their jobs.
If you want the “TRUTH” just GOOGLE it [/sarcasm]
Biased much? If Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of the left wing technology elite had a shred of honesty they would block the article as misinformation. There is plenty of evidence of HCQ being effective in large, statistically significant numbers. Numbers like the entire nation of Switzerland.
My personal agenda includes making HCQ, Remdesevir, anti-inflammatories, etc. as widely available for COVID patients as possible. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore an article written by somebody other than Fauci or Birx that indicates skepticism.
Bkmk
Anyone reading the decades old research on HCQ will understand that it works by changing the PH of the virus capsid and allowing zinc ions much better entry into the virus to stop the virus reproduction mechanism.
the researchers know this. That’s why they tend to leave zinc out of the study.
Voice o’ Authority says “HCQ didn’ work!” because they designed the test to fail HCQ.
If you could STOP a DEATH MACHINE before it got started, WHO would you knock out?
National Socialists
HCQ + antibiotic + zinc = cured.
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