It was. He didn’t get ill, from what I recall.
Here’s the thing:
Most regular healthy people don’t need any treatment. It’s the people with comorbidities that need treatment, and it is also them who the hydroxy chloroquine is contraindicated.
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In the Dr.s letter he cites his credentials and says that the knows how to evaluate studies, and that HCQ has great evidence showing it works.
Have there been large scale studies done on the effectiveness/safety of the HCQ cocktail on Covid patients? It seems like he just cites anecdotal evidence. I would assume there are ongoing trials for the HCQ cocktail just like there are for Remdisivir and numerous other treatments?
That’s what kinda makes me think this is just a contrarian cheerleading piece.
Aside from the same anatomy as a supplement ad, it has some fallacious statements built in, supported by anecdotal evidence.
The HCQ treatment has been around for what? 3-4 months?
He hasn’t seen a study showing it is harmful because they don’t exist. Harm may result, but it is not a desired outcome, it’s a stop sign.
From the comments on the article:
https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study
A study at NYU showed a 44% reduction in death rate for patients treated with HCQ and ZINC. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients | medRxiv A recent study in Michigan at Henry Ford Health System showed a significant cut in death rate using HCQ . https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study
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Are you reading these?
From Ford:
. None of the patients had documented serious heart abnormalities; however, patients were monitored for a heart condition routinely pointed to as a reason to avoid the drug as a treatment for COVID-19.
And zinc had virtually no effect according to the first one.
It’s all just internet jousting to me though. My cardiologist already definitively cleared this up in April.
Summary?: if you catch Covid, don’t have a “comorbidity”, start displaying symptoms, pay $100, improve your odds.
Sounds like progress.
p.s. also recall that the most prominent “study” used to turn HCQ into the drug that shall not be named was thoroughly, 100%, discredited
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Yeah, nothing against that. Not in any way new or a breakthrough though, and the vast majority of people with no comorbidities don’t actually need treatment.
It moved the ball from the 1 yd. line to 1.00001 yard line a few months ago. That is progress.
Are we all supposed to be walking around in fear, or are we all not? Just checking.
Seems to be dependent on the thread and the posters.
No. Not in fear.
I’ve done some pretty dangerous things in my life like tree cutting, which I’ve recently returned to.
Using good safety practices and advice from other professionals I’ve managed to make a liveing in a trade that has a WAY higher mortality rate than Covid-19.
So, good safety and preventive practices are what keep people alive, not fear. Fear causes rash decisions, flippant actions, which invites accidents and death.
This isn’t that hard.
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I don’t disagree with what you’re saying.
But the fact is, there is only one thing that is dominating everyone’s lives right now.
Yeah. Media hype filled with mixed messages.
It’s a freakin fear factory running at capacity, 24/7.
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Unless you have an (undiagnosed) heart condition. This isn’t aspirin.
My friend is a MD dealing with Covid-19 patients and while they’re giving azomytricine liberally, they’re careful with HCQ.
And no, it’s not an “Orange man bad” bias. They’re simply trying various stuff with medium and severe cases to see what works.
I don’t believe that doctors who are actually practicing medicine, not the administrators, have this at all.
But politicians making decisions affecting people’s livelihoods? Yes.
It’s amazing, in a bad way, that apparently people still don’t understand why mass mask wearing can help us get out from under the negative financial and health impacts of this pandemic.
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Posted this before, but probably TL;DR:
NYC is in Phase 3 of re-opening.
CA has rolled back some (most?) of Phase 2 re-opening.
I know what I can logically infer from those two facts…
Whats that?
I thought we were supposed to stay at home for 15 days and wear masks to flatten the curve? Now it’s mass mask wearing? For how long? Until the end of time?
Now, the narrative is: “Oh my gosh, cases are rising! Back inside we go! Masks are important now more than ever!”
Soooo, we’re opening up, then closing down, then opening back up, and closing back down? This is how you run a country?
No, like I already said this is pretty much the worst possible way it can be handled. This way it drags out the situation for much longer and the economic damage will be much worse. There needs to be some sort of cooperation between the government and citizens, find a solution that will actually work in real life.
Right now things are opening up gradually in Ontario, but Toronto is basically asking for a bailout from the federal government, saying they will have to cut all kinds of stuff and raise property tax by 60% otherwise. It’s a city where it takes forever to get around by car and the cost of living is ridiculous, if they cut buses and trains then it will be totally fucked.
Now just imagine they open up and shut down again and go back through the same shit, it will end up like Detroit.