Dr. Woolley-Brain is full of crap. The drug is very safe, especially in the short term use for CV - just five or six days. Who says so? The doctors who are successfully using it. A doctor with TDS is far more dangerous than this drug.
Yak... yak... yak... everything he’s said is a lie.
The drug label for HCQ, and its close relative Chloroquine, are very clear about their risks and both contain a page and a half of stark warnings that include the possibility of blindness due to retinal injury, loss of consciousness due to low blood sugar, suicidal behavior, heart failure, potentially lethal interactions with other drugs, lethal heart rhythm disturbances and yes, death. When doctors prescribe HCQ, they expect that the risk of these potentially tragic side effects will be outweighed by some benefit.
Millions take the drug and we see little of these rare side effects.
LMAO I KNEW this was YOU posting this article when I saw the title.
More uplifting and encouraging stories from the usual suspects.
according to this, Woosley is EMERITUS professor of medicine at The University of Arizona, in other words, a retired 77 year old has-been old-fart ...
https://bio5.org/about/scientists/raymond-l-woosley
Strange how many of us were prescribed hydroxychloroquine for no medical reason other than travel to certain areas. When I got my (multiple) hydroxychloroquine prescriptions, I got the page with the side effect listed, and I was told that almost no one has trouble with HCQ over the course of a month or so. Now, all of a sudden, it’s one step worse than chemotherapy?
It’s sad how much America’s enemies hate anything associated with President Trump, even a medication that he recommends. It takes a real loser to wallow that deep in malice for year after year. One year it’s “Stormy” and “Trump gets two scoops of ice cream”. The next year it’s “Russia” and “Trump’s tan is fake”. The year after that, it’s “bribery, no quid pro quo, no, we can’t find a crime, but there must be something that merits impeachment” and “Trump has a financial interest in a drug that is off patent and costs almost nothing”. Pathetic.
i just did a search for ‘How many people have died using Hydroxychloroquine, and can’t find a single provable case i nhte fist few dozen search results- I dound that 4 peopel in france died while on it, but they couldn’t link the deaths directly to the use of Hydroxychloroquine- these folks had Covid and likely had other conditions too-
I do however find hundreds, if not 1000’s of cases where people are being saved by using the drugs
Hey media- if the drug is so dangerous- where are all the deaths form it’s use?
The MSM are pure scum!
Given that everything is politicized nowadays, and politics trumps everything, the first question I ask when I read any article is, “what are the politics of the messenger?”
So, what are the politics of this Dr.?
“ Professor Didier Raoult has just released the results of a new Hydroxychloroquine treatment study involving 1061 patients.
It shows after being treated with Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, a complete virological cure was obtained in 91.7% of patients within 10 days.”
https://twitter.com/michaelcoudrey/status/1248424461163872260?s=21
ibuprofen, can cause Stevens Johnsons Syndrome (SJS). This condition causes blistering over the body.
ibuprofen can also cause stomach ulcer that will cause you to vomit up a substance that resembles ground up coffee beans.
Naproxin can cause color blindness
Anesthesia can mess you up for life-
alendronate (Fosamax)
risedronate (Actonel and Atelvia)
ibandronate (Boniva)
denosumab (Prolia)
Can cause your jaw to die
many many many drugs are far more dangerous than HCQ and doctors prescribe them every day-
Whotta lib gasbag.
In my town, for decades, we have had front-end loaders to clean the streets daily of the piles of dead bodies of Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis sufferers who took hydroxychloroquine and died.
If only Doc Gasbag here had been around to warn them...
There is a huge difference in the side effects between Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine. Most of the bad side effects have been tied to HQ alone. HCQ is much safer, with fewer side effects. Almost trivial side effects with HCQ.
The potential side effects listed are taken from the history of CQ, because it was out first, and they didn’t know yet what they would be for HCQ. Very difficult to remove side effects from a label later, and pretty much no reason to. Litigation reasons.
As a preventative, you can pretty much give it to anyone who could use it to prevent malaria. Which is darn near everyone. The body doesn’t know which disease you will be exposed to. Millions of doses given each year for !alaria prevention, all over the world.
The Chemotherapy Drugs given to me to treat my CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) MAY HAVE given me MDS (Myelodysplastic Syndrome) otherwise known as Pre Leukemia.
There is also a chance that I already had MDS but it was not Diagnosed along with my CLL.
Without the Chemotherapy Drugs first given to me fourteen Years ago to battle my CLL, I probably wouldn’t even be around to worry about the side effects.
The different Opinions of all these Doctors makes you realize that picking one Doctor over a another is like buying a Lotto Ticket. Could be a Winner, but probably isn’t.
What do you have to lose by taking hydroxychloroquine?
Let’s see, the bracing experience of having a tube inserted down your trachea is the first thing that comes to mind.
No medication is totally benign. Even aspirin with more than a century of common use has side effects and can be dangerous. However this is a biased hit piece. There is ample evidence that HCQ is an effective treatment in many cases of COVID-19. The drug has a 50 year history and is cheap and generic. Ideally years of double blind studies would be needed to get FDA approval for use with COVID-19, but given the long history of this drug and its apparent effectiveness in treating this pandemic why not use it.
“What is known? HCQ has been tested previously in several viral illnesses but never found effective. Importantly, there is no evidence whatsoever that HCQ can prevent COVID-19, and there is only anecdotal evidence that it improves the course of the disease. The reports that it can reduce the measurable levels of the virus in patients are seriously flawed, lack a valid control group and were released to the public with little, if any, scientific review. Proper clinical trials with HCQ are underway, but these will take months. In summary, doctors do not know if HCQ or any other drug now being tested is effective or will have any medical benefit.”
A proveable lie. None other than Dr. Fauci himself URGED the use of HCQ against MERS as recently as 2009.
A ton of evidence showing the opposite. And yet, this asshat can practice medicine.