Posted on 04/11/2020 8:09:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
During this COVID-19 pandemic, Pierce County, Washington residents expect our public health system to aggressively confront the virus.
Data from South Korea and France demonstrate hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin taken orally for five days have striking results — for example, 95% of severely ill treated patients had symptoms quickly resolved, vs. 25% of untreated patients —and evidence builds that malaria and lupus sufferers taking hydroxychloroquine are COVID-resistant.
These are not “gold standard” double-blind studies. But a delta of 70 points is strong evidence that hydroxychloroquine suppresses viral replication and mitigates disease severity, preventing hospitalizations.
Our health experts have known about this treatment for a long time, but still resist recommending it for use before a symptomatic patient must be hospitalized. Why?
Are they afraid of a “run” on these meds? That word makes us think of a mosh pit of people grabbing for toilet paper at the grocery store.
But these meds require a doctor’s visit, where the doctor identifies the patient’s symptoms and risk profile, and writes the prescription if it’s called for. Then a pharmacist checks the prescription and dispenses the meds. The fear of a “run” just isn’t real.
Are they afraid hydroxychloroquine won’t be available for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus patients? Its half-life is 40 days (that’s how long it stays in the patient’s system after being ingested); it is often not the primary med for R.A.; and the supply can be replenished quickly, as it has been recently.
Meantime, fewer elders with co-morbidities will be hospitalized and die with COVID.
Are they afraid of side effects? Those haven’t kept doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine for R.A. or lupus, so why the great concern with COVID?
Remember, these same experts knew weeks ago that non-symptomatic COVID carriers could infect others but told us wearing a mask wasn’t effective to suppress its spread. Last week, they admitted that’s untrue.
Are they afraid hydroxychloroquine doesn’t have final FDA approval for COVID? Doctors often prescribe medications “off-label” after assessing the patient’s health and the risks and benefits. Now even the FDA has approved this.
Worst case, it doesn’t work. Best case, it does. So why not use it with high-risk patients who have COVID symptoms, to prevent hospitalization?
Are they afraid it will displace another effective treatment? Unlikely, since there isn’t another one generally available. The public health system is touting the infusion drug remdesivir, which requires hospitalization, also has side effects (like infections at the infusion site) and will cost hundreds of times the cost of two little pills taken at home for 5 days.
Maybe remdesivir’s huge income potential for the health system is relevant to this conversation.
Are they afraid that stories of hydroxychloroquine’s healing effects are true, so they call them “just anecdotal?” Well, a delta of 70 is a little more than “anecdotal.” And if it’s your spouse or favorite auntie, avoiding severe health problems is a pretty powerful outcome to be dismissed with “just.”
The thousands of known “anecdotes” are real stories about health recovered, hospitalizations prevented, COVID’s spread in a home stopped and lives saved; they cannot be so easily dismissed. And they are being acted upon outside of our health system.
As our public health experts wait for more research, or for a higher authority to give its approval, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are being used around the world to attack COVID and prevent hospitalizations.
It is past time for health experts here to suppress their fears, use their reason and fulfill their primary duty to protect our community’s health. Our neighbors are dying for it.
This is why Christians need to pray. ANd not just to be spared. This is spiritual warfare.
They’re afraid of Trump to hell with the rest of us.
There’s no MONEY in those tried & true, old meds. They want a BILLION DOLLAR, vaccine, which’ll never happen. AIDS has been around around since the 80s, and still nothing...
There have never been clinical trials on Covid19 with Remdesivir.
These evil liars are actually playing with people’s lives.
They want more people to die. They want to make money off an expensive new treatment. Who knows!?
RE: There have never been clinical trials on Covid19 with Remdesivir.
I believe they are ongoing even as I write this.
The question is — compared to HCQ + Azithromycin + Zinc, how effective is Remdesivir? ( at what stage of the disease for instance? ).
Also, what is the total cost to a patient for the treatment?
HCQ + Azithromycin + Zinc is somewhere north of $25 I think for the total treatment.
“ stays in the patient’s system after being ingested”
Half-life! 50% is still present.
Gov. A Cornuto (D-NY) is a cazzo.
RE: They want a BILLION DOLLAR, vaccine
We have to wait till next year for that, if it ever happens. In the meantime, what alternatives exist now?
We don’t have the luxury of time.
It is a generic drug. The DS (Deep state) will loose their investments in the vaccines. It will destroy the plan by the DS to destroy Trump.
You are exactly right. And the “they” you refer to are the greedy, self-serving BUREAUCRATS who are only looking out for their own interests.
Fauci’s pay should be cut off and he should be confined to his home so he can have some appreciation for what the rest of the country is going through.
Because it works.
The drug helps pump Zinc into the body cells. Zinc destroys viruses by zapping them electrically. I got a big laugh when Trump mentioned Zinc.
Got to wonder about the FDA making the vitamin makers say “not fda approved”, on what their real agenda is.
They are afraid it will work and they won’t be able to blame a tragedy on Trump.
I found something interesting in wikipedia about HCQ:
“Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955. It is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system. In 2017, it was the 128th-most-prescribed medication in the United States, with more than five million prescriptions.”
Safe? Yes. Effective? Yes. Commonly prescribed? Yes.
You better screen grab that, before the WHO realizes it’s on the wiki and deletes it :- /
With HCQ on board, people are apparently protected from the lethality of the virus.
Got vaccine? No, thanks - I made my own, far faster and cheaper than a vaccine.
I contend there are but TWO reasons.
1) President Trump touted it as a possible Game Changer. And, Terminal TDS causes them to reject it because of this fact alone.
2) The drug has been around for 65 YEARS. It is Dirt Cheap. Thus, there is no money to be made with it. So, Big Pharma is working overtime to discredit it and they are taking advantage of Terminal TDS of the Libs to help them discredit it.
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