Major Medical Journal Recommends Hydroxychloroquine as Treatment for COVID-19

[Billy_Bob]

Sorry, no one's head is going to explode. This article (posted on a right wing website) is pure opinion. And I don't know where they are getting their information from . The two limited clinical trials that have been held did not produce more favorable results. WHO has suspended their clinical trials but our own NIH is proceeding with theirs. Again, it will likely take a few years of data collection and observation to make sound conclusions. Meanwhile, there are other treatments being researched.
Report: 16 COVID-19 Clinical Trials Showing Positive Results So Far | BioSpace

Double-blind controlled clinical trials are being suspended because, just as I predicted in another thread, the mounting evidence of the effectiveness of HCQ has precluded them.

At this point, it is unethical to have a control group IMO, just like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis clinical trials where they gave some people a placebo instead of penicillin and just watched as the disease took it's horrible toll on them to collect data.

A new study out of Johns Hopkins has shown that staff who took low dose HCQ did not get infected, while those who did not became infected.. That one is about to leave a huge mark on our socialist POS's

 

[mikegriffith1]

A new study out of Johns Hopkins has shown that staff who took low dose HCQ did not get infected, while those who did not became infected.. That one is about to leave a huge mark on our socialist POS's.

Yeap, in several thousand documented cases, HCQ has a success rate above 90% when used in the early stages of infection. Even when used in the late stages, it has about a 30% success rate, which is better than nothing.

If this were 2011 and Obama recommended HCQ, many more lives would be saved because liberals would not reflexively reject the recommendation.

 

[Toro]

Pulled today by the FDA

WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration has revoked its emergency-use authorization for two malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, for the treatment of the Covid-19 disease.


“It is no longer reasonable to believe” the two drugs “may be effective in treating Covid-19,” said Denise M. Hinton, the FDA’s chief scientist said in a Monday letter. Nor is it reasonable to believe, she added, that “known and potential benefits of these products outweigh their known and potential risks.”

The two drugs were widely touted by President Trump and others as useful in helping patients with Covid-19. Mr. Trump said in May that he was taking hydroxychloroquine as preventive to avoid the virus.

The FDA issued an authorization in late March for the drugs to be used during the coronavirus pandemic. But on April 24, it issued a cautionary statement about the medicine after learning of serious heart rhythm problems among coronavirus patients who had used one of the two medicines.

FDA Pulls Emergency Covid-19-Use Approval for Hydroxychloroquine, Taken by Trump

The FDA has revoked its emergency-use authorization for two malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, for the treatment of the Covid-19 disease. President Trump, who touted the drugs, said he took hydroxychloroquine as preventive.

www.wsj.com