World leaders like President Nayib Bukele of the Tremendous Republic of El Salvador, report that they take HCQ for prevention. So far, Señor Bukele is still alive and well , proving the efficacy of the medicine.Of all the people who have died, I am certain some of these poor souls was on Plaqunil....ie the Trump miracle Hydro drug.....I take it for Lupus, for RA, as I'm certain a lot of these elderly people who died could have been on...this drug does not save you from the virus.The Long, Sad Saga of Hydroxychloroquine
21 Aug 2020~~ By Jim TalentThe Long, Sad Saga of Hydroxychloroquine | National Review
The same medical community which is telling us that HCQ is dangerous, may soon be telling us that a vaccine developed in record time is completely safe.www.nationalreview.com
I want to make sure NR readers don’t miss this essay from Norman Doidge. It’s the best thing I’ve read on hydroxychloroquine. But beware: The piece is long and fascinating. Once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop, and it takes a good half hour to finish.
Doidge tells the tale of hydroxychloroquine, or HCQ as he calls it, as if the drug were a character in a story. His main point is that HCQ hasn’t received fair treatment in many quarters, including, unfortunately, some of the health experts advising the government of the United States. The main reasons are the intrusion of politics into medicine, the pitfalls and limitations of big data in medical science, and the over-reliance of many experts on random controlled testing to the exclusion of other kinds of evidence.
Doidge manages to make even a discussion of research methodology interesting. Here is a sample:
Patients are not “several data points.” There are multiple good reasons that the medical curriculum and major journals and texts publish RCTs, observational studies, case histories, and other designs, and why most physicians with experience will use what I would call the “all-available-evidence” approach and take, as appropriate, what they can learn from different kinds of studies, and of course everything they know about their own patient in front of them, to decide on a treatment. That is what personalized medicine is about. RCT fundamentalists — who believe only in their randomized data and essentially argue for throwing away everything else — pose as people simply expressing the conventional view: All you need is one tool. But in practice, they are way outside it. When the teacher tells you to quit paying so much attention to the fullness of your experience, pay more attention to why he might be saying so.We now have studies that show one of the weaknesses of RCTs (random controlled testing) is that in the quest to eliminate confounding factors, they end up, in a majority of cases, excluding patients who are typical of those in the population. The RCT evangelist focuses only on the RCT strengths, and forgets their weaknesses. A typical RCT describes several data points about hundreds of patients. It can be helpful in determining what treatment might work for most people in a large population. A typical case history describes perhaps hundreds of data points about a single patient. Its focus might be on what treatment might work best for this patient. Sometimes we need all that information about a patient, to choose a proper treatment, because individual patients differ, often in decisive ways.
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This outstanding article reinforced an opinion I had already reached. I think HCQ has therapeutic benefits in treating COVID-19; I’m confident that, used with proper medical oversight, it’s harmless.
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So have you been out and exposed yourself knowingly or unknowingly to Chinese Covid-19? Has anyone you have had contact with contracted the virus?
How do you know you haven't been protected by the prophylactic use of HCQ/Plaquenil?
What in the world are you talking about Dude?
Hospitals uses HCQ and combination to treat Covid 19 heavily in all hospitals. Triggered is 100% accurate. Hospitals deaths of Covid 19 was treated with HCQ but it failed in some cases. Pay attention to scientist and experts. Do not listen to an unknown worthless media or an ignorant leader.
That doesn't prove its efficacy at all...