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What do you have to lose taking hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus? Potentially your life
Seacost Online ^ | 04/10/2020 | By Dr. Raymond L. Woosley

Posted on 04/10/2020 10:54:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

They always mention heart and eyes to make people afraid.

I wouldn’t really mind losing a bit of peripheral vision. I wouldn’t even bother to hire a bodyguard.


41 posted on 04/10/2020 11:13:08 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: SeekAndFind

This quack is suffering from a really bad case of TDS for which there in fact, is no treatment.


42 posted on 04/10/2020 11:13:24 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: SeekAndFind

Anything to keep the fear going and the economy shut down.

The virus is a real threat, but does anyone seriously doubt that the real purpose/target is getting Trump removed from office.

Since this crisis started right after impeachment failed it makes you really wonder what is going on.

Or maybe Schiff wasn’t kidding when he told senators their head would be on a pike if they didn’t remove Trump from office.


43 posted on 04/10/2020 11:14:02 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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To: truthkeeper

Yup, it’s a somewhat safer form, but even that form was generally harmless.

You get a dose of 83 mg of quinine from a liter of tonic water.


44 posted on 04/10/2020 11:14:02 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DesertRhino

I was prescribed it when I took a business trip to India. No side effects and I am still alive. The doc didn’t mention that I might die from it. Maybe because the risk was nil.


45 posted on 04/10/2020 11:16:34 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Jayster

And besides that, it is a F-ING LIE!!!!


46 posted on 04/10/2020 11:16:39 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: SeekAndFind

First, the drug is not that dangerous in general; it is not just used to treat malaria, it is given to prevent malaria, and most people who have traveled to a country with malaria have taken it.

Second, yes, we need to check if the drug has a bad interaction when taken while you have COVID, but we have not heard of a single study or case where there was such a reaction, so by now I think it seems rather unlikely, except in rare instances.

Third, given that millions of pills have been snapped up and used by this point, I think doctors on the front line have a pretty good feeling about whether it is helping or not, even though we will want actual studies.

ANd given that I have NOT read of a hospital telling us that they stopped using it because it wasn’t helping, I’m guessing that doctors are at least THINKING it is helpful.

Then we have the models, that “look wrong” because things are getting better quicker — which is exactly what I would expect if the models were based on ‘non-HCQ’ treatment, and now we were doing a lot of HCQ treatment and it was curing some people who might die, and reducing the number of days in hospital.

So yes, we don’t “know” — but i would think by now we would know if it was a bust. I am also thinking it isn’t as great as we would like, or we’d also know more, so it probably is “helping”, and we could use a drug that worked better. Just my opinion.


47 posted on 04/10/2020 11:16:40 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: SeekAndFind

Are you or a loved one of the many thousands of people that have been cured of the ChiCom Flu with Hydroxychloroquine?

Well, the Democraps of America would like you to get back on your deathbed and shut up.

Orange Man Bad.


48 posted on 04/10/2020 11:16:43 AM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: SeekAndFind
Bunch of drama queen writers who have absolutely no clue what they're even talking about.

They should be asked what it even means to have a prolongated QT cycle - and the exact risk factor for those taking hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. It's minute.

49 posted on 04/10/2020 11:16:52 AM PDT by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: SeekAndFind

You have the same to lose as those who have been taking it for malaria for decades, or for lupus.


50 posted on 04/10/2020 11:16:56 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Seaplaner

The closest I can come to a double blind test is I work in an essential business, while my wife works from home. Neither one of us has been sick. The whole social distancing thing is out the window this week anyway because of people buying Easter stuff.


51 posted on 04/10/2020 11:18:00 AM PDT by yawningotter
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To: DesertRhino

Church mission trips to Guatemala include this drug in the pre-trip checklist.


52 posted on 04/10/2020 11:18:41 AM PDT by ptsal ( Bust the NVIA)
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To: SeekAndFind

And not taking it you risk your life.


53 posted on 04/10/2020 11:19:21 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: SeekAndFind

Thirty years ago, many doctors would sanctimoniously tell you that sprinkling a little salt n your food would be fatal, too. Those fools have melted back into the woodwork, along with the fools who said not to eat food that had cholesterol in it.

Just having an MD degree is no guarantee of being completely foolish.


54 posted on 04/10/2020 11:21:06 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: piasa

>>In 2005, he founded Critical Path Institute (C-Path), an independent, non-profit organization created jointly by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the University of Arizona to help implement the FDA’s Critical Path Initiative and accelerate the development of new drugs and diagnostics.

So he’s part of the system, helped create the system, that makes it a multi-year process to get a new drug FDA approved, and is very invested in that process. No wonder he doesn’t like off-label use of an existing drug the side effects of which are well-understood.


55 posted on 04/10/2020 11:21:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it was found that this could mitigate the effects of STDs, I’ll bet you wouldn’t see such absurd opposition from them.


56 posted on 04/10/2020 11:22:56 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: SeekAndFind
"I encourage our leaders to defer to the medical and scientific experts who have the knowledge, skills and training to save lives and to not encourage unnecessary or unfounded risks with our lives and our safety."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but PDJT has not prescribed a single dose of this medication. I believe the treating physician is still making all the decisions for his patients. Or did I miss something.

#STOP THE HATE!

57 posted on 04/10/2020 11:24:15 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: Mr. Rabbit

I took it before going to India. My doctor didn’t mention any risks, he just prescribed it for me and my wife.


58 posted on 04/10/2020 11:24:55 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weather)
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To: SeekAndFind

This — and many other incidents throughout the media — is irresponsible and can not only create unneeded fear, but real deaths.

This is how the whole vaccines-cause-autism thing got started, and now folks won’t vaccinate even for things they should vaccinate for.

Disgusting...


59 posted on 04/10/2020 11:25:11 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hydroxychoroquine prevents the virus from destroying the red blood cells ability to transport oxygen.


60 posted on 04/10/2020 11:27:20 AM PDT by meatloaf
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