Enjoy your quarantine listening while you can
The French did a small clinical study using hydroxychoroquine and azithromycin on 20 people and found it held promise and further testing should be done.the Chinese produce a study with great number of cases... Chinese science is trash? When the times is urging not using a 4 cent product with very low negative effects is akin to stupidity... |
Why so angry, grasshopper? Don’t dwell on the past. It can do no good. Woulda, shoulda, coulda. God gave you two ears and one mouth for a reason. Who cares about China? The US has the best doctors in the world. It was the US military experts at Ft. Detrick, MD, home to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), with its bio-defense agency, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases(USAMRIID) who solved Ebola and other recent pandemics. |
FDA just approve chloroquine use, and Bayer offer to send it... Good news because chloroquine obstruct it seems the worst when you suffer the infection... Great vitamine c dose can act also to help....There will be other drug available but this one is cheap already here and relatively safe...Good news and we need it... |
Sadly because there is no definitive treatment for SARS Covid-19 we are reaching for straws. The study quoted had too few patients to be statistically significant. HCQ does show antiviral activity for HIV when combined with other specific anti-HIV drugs. HCQ is not benign. There are dose related effects and for doses greater than 400 mg daily the side effects are significant including possible permanent blindness. The trials will take many weeks and it’s difficult to design trials for mildly symptomatic patients. The Chinese physicians found no difference in ICU admission or mortality but HCQ was added late in the course. For now, hold your horses. P.S. I just retired from 37 years of medicine with direct patient contact and the last 28 years were Emergency Medicine. |
