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Posted on 08/06/2020 6:39:45 AM PDT by Heartlander
Controversy rages in the United States over the use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19. Critics — so many driven to fight HCQ because President Trump advocated for it —refuse to yield to evidence that it works. Yet that evidence is pouring in from around the world.
There, it has been a vital tool for both prevention and treatment. It could be reducing case fatality rates. Including in my home country.
The largest population to consume HCQ, and successfully reduce deaths and infection, is in India.
After careful studies from the country’s top hospitals, the Indian government recommends HCQ for people at high risk of contracting COVID-19.
Data from lab tests showed HCQ’s safety and its efficacy against SARS-CoV-2. Health care workers who took it showed reduced infection rates and mortality despite constant exposure to COVID-19 patients. Clinical trials on outpatients confirmed that, properly used, it is safe.
As you might guess, since HCQ is very inexpensive, the biggest benefactors are the poor.
Asia’s largest slum, Dharavi, is in Mumbai. It is home to about a million people. It made great progress against COVID-19. Officials credited the turnaround to HCQ and a combination of other drugs.
Given HCQ’s widespread efficacy, the Indian government announced it will provide 42 million HCQ tablets to Indian states. Officials stated, “States have to use these HCQ tablets for the treatment of COVID-19 patients and as prophylaxis.”
India also produces 70 percent of the global stockpile of HCQ. Since COVID-19 took off, the country has exported HCQ to many countries. The U.S. alone received 50 million tablets.
Further, India is sending HCQ tablets as aid to 75 or more poor countries. Africa received $16 million worth of COVID-19 support from India, including HCQ tablets.
Morocco used HCQ with high success. In light of that, a Moroccan scientist working in France claimed that “78% of Europe’s coronavirus-related deaths could have been avoided if European states had used HCQ.”
Turkey, Indonesia, Ukraine, Greece, Malaysia, and Cuba are other countries where early HCQ use brought very low death rates.
Many American physicians knew of HCQ’s potential to fight COVID-19. In April, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons suggested, “Hydroxychloroquine has about 90 percent chance of helping COVID-19 patients.”
A study of 2500 patients at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit revealed that early HCQ use reduced deaths by half in COVID-19 positive cases. Its CEO acknowledged, “As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”
HCQ can prevent COVID-19 and help cure it when administered in early stages of the disease. Nonetheless, politics — not science — keeps Americans from fully benefiting from it.
It’s time for a change.
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We all need to thank Dr. Simone Gold and the Front Line Doctors for bringing hydroxychloroquine to the attention of millions of Americans last week.
Orange Man Bad... so Orange Man’s medicine Bad...
HCQ’s biggest problem is that it interferes with the Rat Party’s best chances to win back the White House this year . . . someone ask Witch Doctor Fauci about that. . . .
HCQ works - if it is allowed to work.
Applied early and in judicious quantity, there are no ill effects from the medicine. There is, in medical terms, something called LD50. That is the lethal dose that kills fifty percent of those to whom it is administered. The human organism is well able to handle perhaps 200 mg administered twice a week, no ill effects at all from the medication. Giving 400 mg daily for a two-week period has much different and much more profound effects on the human body. At that point toxicity has set in, and the body, already impaired, cannot adequately metabolize it in any useful manner.
A similar effect exists in regards to zinc. The maximum daily dose that the adult human body can metabolize and utilize effectively is about 50 mg of zinc ion. Doses of 100-300 mg per day become toxic, and 2,000 mg per day for a period of more than a few days becomes lethal.
“Some is good, more is better” is a very bad rule to follow when it comes to administering medications.
The real illness is the lust for power and the lust for wealth.
Not sure if it's true, but if it is, it will never be reported.
How ironic, the poorer nations are better off with regard to HCQ access than we are.
bkmk
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