The controversy over hydroxychloroquine will not go away.
The anti-malarial drug gained attention in March when President Trump said he was using it to prevent COVID-19. In May, the medical journal the Lancet published a study saying that the drug was potentially toxic, a study that was retracted in June because its data proved to be fraudulent. The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the drug in late March and then revoked it in June when new evidence suggested it was ineffective. Then, in late July, a group calling itself America’s Frontline Doctors generated controversy by releasing a video touting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. The video was pulled by Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
Now a new, peer-reviewed study in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents may add fuel to a fire that seemed to be burning out. The study finds that outpatients with the coronavirus who were treated with hydroxychloroquine combined with zinc and the antibiotic azithromycin were less likely to be hospitalized. Fewer than 3% of outpatients who took the drug regimen ended up in the hospital versus 15% who did not take it.
A number of studies have found that hydroxychloroquine has no effect on inpatients. But critics have said that patients who are already in the hospital may be too sick for the drug to have any effect. Outpatients, they claim, often present with milder symptoms, and thus, hydroxychloroquine may prove effective.
But the new study has limitations. First is its relatively small sample size of 518 patients. Second, it is a retrospective study, not a randomized controlled trial, often considered the gold standard in medical research. Additionally, one of the authors, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, has aggressively promoted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, at one point incorrectly saying that he was conducting an FDA-approved study of the drug.
In June, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a randomized controlled trial of hydroxychloroquine on outpatients that found no effect. However, it did not include zinc or azithromycin in its study. Randomized controlled trials examining all three drugs are due out later this year.
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Even more telling is the fact that African nations, where Hydroxychloroquine is commonly available and used as an anti-malarial medicine, the death rate for Covid is almost non-existent.
Just Sayin’
Vitamin D is huge in mitigating or preventing Covid infections.
Simple, cheap and effective, Hydrocloroquin, ivermectin, vitamins, C & D, Zinc, some antibiotics.
Is it a conspiracy of stupidity?
It’s all about the cost difference. Just follow the money. Hydroxychoroquine is not patented, Remdesivir et.al. are.
Just Sayin’
Yep,
There’s the rub…Fauci, et al won’t be making millions. The Lord said money is the root of all evil
A great video about the hoax from BrandNewtube…
https://brandnewtube.com/embed/XdQhExGCUqmyuSF
I guess that Bill Gates does not control Hydroxychloroquinine production worldwide and cannot make another billion off of it.
I went to Mexico and got my HCQ and Zpak just in case. Vitamin D is no problem, I gets lots of sun and take a multi vitamin with D in it.
Robin,
Don’t forget the zinc. That’s vitally important.
I was going to stop writing on the topic as this seems to foster a lot of inane “crap”. No one seems to want to comment or the people in my profession seem to be either half dead or forgot about the process of “critical thinking”. I very much like the observation that hydroxychloroquine is used in areas where malaria is endemic and the associated lack of issues involving this Covid 19 occurrence. I was asking the rhetorical question of whether this drug was not better suited to be used as a “prophylaxis” for the virus (as it is used for the “prevention” of malaria). The assinine argument that has not been tested negates the experience of 500,000 Americans that used it “prophylactically” in Vietnam and their most common problem with the “grim reaper” was plumbium poisoning or damage from other guerilla tactics to kill people. I ask a question, we know that POTUS was taking it. Did he stop? The second question is whether the VP and his wife were taking it and those around him were dxd (diagnosed) with the Corona virus (a virus that occurs with the common cold and the flu). The numbers being quoted are “MEANINGLESS” from a scientific point of view for a variety of reasons, yet, we continue to “beat this horse”. Add the rest of the food supplements, I do, but don’t try to get hydroxychloroquine because the “pharmacists” in my neighborhood suggest they will not honor my script unless I am prescribing for RA or SLE, etc. We are being played and no one wants to look or listen.
What are your thoughts on Ivermectin?
There are trials underway in other, less developed parts of the world, that are showing results better than the much vaunted Remdesivir… of course a does of Ivermectin is an infinitesimal fraction of the shiny new drug on the block..
Just curious!
Cheers
Dr. Wineman,
Your perspective sounds like that of an actual medical practitioner in the trenches and not that of some Ivory Tower pedestal dwelling researcher. I think you are definitely correct.
HCN $25 per patient treatment. Excellent results.
Remdesivir $ 3,300 per patient treatment. Negligible results.
Decisions, decisions?
Here is the website where I bought 135 200 milligrams of Hydroxychloroquine months ago, unneeded to date but held just in case with my ‘stash’. The matching Zinc Sulfate came free.
The fact this isn’t available in every corner drugstore in the country, for .10 cents a pill, shows how corrupt the government is, how powerful the Luciferians are, and how propagandized, brainwashed, dumbed down, and stupid most Americans are.
http://insulinhub.com/.
The only person I know that has been hospitalized with CONvid is my daughters grand-mother-in-law. She had a plethora of pre-existing conditions and everybody thought she would die. Hispanic, overweight, diabetes, kidney issues. Actually it was the kidney issues plus the CONvid symptoms that originally sent her to the hospital.
She recovered after a week but has to be on dialysis now. Turns out she had lupus (she works for a Dr office) and had been taking hydroxychloroquine for about a year.
Coinkydink?
Haven’t you heard? THERE IS NO CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD!
“The reason is simple; the number of viruses that cause the common cold are simply too great to be treated by a medicine. You see, even the rhinovirus – the culprit virus in most cases of the common cold – has many different ‘strains’ (a strain is a subtype of a microorganism), not to mention hundreds of other varieties of viruses. Curing the common cold with a single medicine would require the medicine to fight an array of viruses that cause similar symptoms. From a purely biological standpoint, these symptoms are caused when our own immune system kicks itself into action to fight off a foreign invasion (like a viral attack), resulting in a sore throat and nasal congestion.”
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/no-cure-common-cold-vaccine-medicine-rhinovirus.html
Keep yourself healthy. If you get sick, that’s your body actually going through a healing process. So lay back and enjoy your body doing what it is meant to do. Embrace every ache, cough and runny nose. And REST.