Posted on 04/03/2020 11:40:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Saturday the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of two antimalarial drugs, hydroxychloroquine and a related medication, chloroquine, for emergency use to treat COVID-19. The drugs were touted by President Trump as a “game changer” for COVID-19.
However, a study just published in a French medical journal provides new evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not appear to help the immune system clear the coronavirus from the body. The study comes on the heels of two others - one in France and one in China - that reported some benefits in the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 patients who didn’t have severe symptoms of the virus.
I am a medicinal chemist who has specialized in discovery and development of antiviral drugs for the past 30 years, and I have been actively working on coronaviruses for the past seven. I am among a number of researchers who are concerned that this drug has been given too much of a high priority before there is enough evidence to show it is indeed effective.
There are already other clinical studies that showed it is not effective against COVID-19 as well as several other viruses. And, more importantly, it can have dangerous side effects, as well as giving false hope. The latter has led to widespread shortages for patients who need it to treat malaria, lupus an rheumatoid arthritis, the indications for which it was originally approved.
The idea that the combination of hydroxychloroquine with an antibiotic drug, azithromycin, was effective against COVID-19 gained more attention after a study published on March 17. This study described a trial of 80 patients carried out by Philippe Gautret in Marseille, France. Although some of their results appeared to be encouraging, it should also be noted that most of their patients only had mild symptoms.
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I say BS these liberal bastards are in high heaven with every damn country brought the their knees they don’t want to see ANYONE get better!!
Yahoo rooting for no cure. Speaks for itself.
...new evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not appear to help the immune system clear the coronavirus from the body.
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The purpose of hydroxychloroquine is not to help the body rid itself of the virus, the purpose of the drug is to modulate the immune reaction to prevent a cytokine storm killing the person thru overreaction to the virus.
They’re doing the French Mistake...Voila!
The same place it found you.
Agreed....two finger typists like me are known to make mistakes.I,for one,make mistakes more often than I care to admit.Of course if it’s difficult,or expensive,to do it’s easy to see why it wouldn’t be done.
RE: So one test gave it to people who were still alive and found it effective while the other test gave it to dead people and found they were still dead after giving the drugs.
The above should be published in THE ONION.
...and if you have further questions for me please direct them to me at this morning’s session of Q&A.
I don’t know I always believed this site contained the smartest people on the planet not so much anymore!!
LOL! Whatever.
Your point was still utterly retarded and dishonest.
Cool, send your leftovers here.
I totally agree.
>> were quite ill at the time the dosing began.
IANAD, but from what I can tell rhe people behind the other French study, like Raoult, have been pretty clear you need to start early. If the patient is already to the point of intubation, you’re likely too late.
I’m afraid we’re going to see the same thing in NYC. They’ll only give the HCQ + Z-Paks to people already too far gone, then it’s going to be “SEE! IT DIDN’T WORK!”
for anyone interested, here’s a link to 330 medical papers (at the moment) regarding use of hydroxychloroquine for C-19 ... anyone can peruse these papers and make up their own mind as to whether this drug works or not:
Yes,the Political Science Departments (among others) at schools like those are not to be trusted. But the medical schools are the real deal. I know...I worked for 20+ years at one of Harvard’s major teaching hospitals.
OMG absolutely hysterical that has to be the funniest post of the week!!
[[GRRRR!!! WTF IS IT WITH THE MEDIA AND THAT ONE FRENCH STUDY???]]
They don’t want Pres Trump to be right about anything- they would rather people die by the 100’s of 1000’s, than for Pres to be right about anything
Many o nthe4 left are very very sick Godless people
[[They are giving it too late to patients, it is supposed to be given as soon as symptoms show up.]]
But the problem is, when you go to the doctors with some shortness of breath, a fever etc- in some states they say you aren’t sick enough and won’t give the drug because the left keep screaming about ‘shortages of supply’ which is a lie-
Perhaps, but never the less my opinion is based on more experience than is yours, but I’m guessing because you are another “no about page”. I wonder what JimRob could tell us about you donation history? You could be as big of a fraud as it appears.
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