It’s simple, based on what we all know right now, would you rather take chloroquine or remdesivir if you had Covid.
I would ask the attending doctor who would provide guidance.
It’s simple, based on what we all know right now, would you rather take chloroquine or remdesivir if you had Covid.
I would ask the attending doctor who would provide guidance.
Not me. There is no evidence of effectiveness with chloroquine right now while there are two medications and a therapy that have shown effectiveness.
Here is the thing. If you were seriously, ill with the Corona Virus and you were on the brink of death, wouldn't you want to be treated with Hydroxychloroquine or be hooked to a ventilator? Or are you going to wait for clinical trials which could take, how long? Say one year? You would be long dead, right? Actually, the father of one doctor who was 96 years of age thought he would die. He was treated with Hydroxychloroquine and got better. It should be the decision of the doctor and the patient. If you do not want it, I imagine the doctor can easily intubate you and hook you to a ventilator. I guess it would not matter because chances are good, you will die anyway. More patients have died being hooked to a ventilator than from Hydroxychloroquine.
I don't know. A doctor who works at ER in CA treating CV patients says that some people die regardless of what he does (combo, Remsdivir, oxygen, ventilator) to help them survive. Probably it is the strain, genetics? Who knows. But many people who have been close to dying according to they themselves, including TDSrs, have survived because of the combo. Pure luck? Who knows. In the meantime Novartis started phase 3 trials on Hydroxychoroquine this week.The jury is still out. I don’t understand why you don’t attack the people who are saying lupus patients don’t get Covid or the president for calling it a game changer the same way you attack people who are trying to share the correct information.
If you read the study I posted you’d see the deaths were suspected to be associated with side effects from chloroquine. That’s why you normally need a physical examine before starting this medication. The problem is giving people a physical exam who are sick doesn’t work. There’s also issues with dosages. The dosages for malaria may not be effective for Covid.
That does not mean there may not ultimately be a benefit but I wouldn’t take it right now if I had Covid, would you?
So you provide on anecdotal story of one person who was treated with hydroxychloroquine and survived. I can provide nine stories of people I grew up with in New York who were treated with hydroxychloroquine, graduated to ventilators and are no longer with us.
80% of people who are hooked up to ventilators in New York die. If this sub-set of patients was not hooked up to ventilators then nearly 100% of them would die.
You are asserting that hydroxychloroquine-based therapy will stop patients from needing ventilators; there is no medical evidence at this time to support this assertion. In fact most in-depth studies from the past week are showing the opposite.
Will you agree that politicians and media pundits should not be hyping unproven medicines as cures for COVID-19?