NIH’s rap against hydroxychloroquine is the risk of the patient developing a prolonged QTc interval in their heart beat.
While no increased risk associated with a prolonged QTc interval has been demonstrated in the general population, in certain subsets, such as those with diabetes or auto-immune disorders, there is an increased risk of ventricular fibrillation and sudden death.
Even so, more than five million prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine are written each year for individuals suffering from lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and other auto-immune disorders because it works extremely well at surprising the symptoms and effects of these diseases.
Available since 1955, It is the 128th most prescribed drug in the United States, and is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health care system.
The NIH only looked at Hydroxychloroquine by itself, not as part of a treatment using Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, or Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc, which are what are generally being used to treat COVID-19 patients with significant, anecdotal, success.
The NIH’s argument appears to be: “We can write five million prescriptions a year for a subset of the population that is KNOWN to be at risk for ventricular fibrillation and sudden death (those with auto-immune disorders), but we won’t let you write a prescription for a COVID-19 patient from the general population who is NOT at risk for ventricular fibrillation and sudden death.”
Note, to my knowledge, and please correct me if I am wrong, no patient with auto-immune disease currently taking hydroxychloroquine has developed COVID-19.
The NIH refuses to test the combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin, or the combination of Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin, and Zinc, because they don’t want to know the results.
They will slow roll this as long as they can because the NIH is into politics and disease, NOT health.
Now that the left has played their hand on this, I don’t think it will be too long before Trump destroys them. I’ve read enough to be confident that the combination treatment works and if true Im sure Trump has a plan for making it known.
nih versus hydroxychloroquine bkmk
Trade offs. FFS we’ve done no careful risk consideration through this entire BS experience.
We should not have solved for #ICU Beds and #ventilators in our response to the pandemic without considering the net net, all-in cost of doing so including the impact on the economy and the dislocation, disruption and despair that decision is breeding among our people.
It was foolish and does not consider what is a complex multivariate problem.
We believe we have the luxury to do this and we’ll create money and disregard the very real enemies in the world this country has by taking this action.
It’s horrifying.