https://www.newsweek.com/top-scientist-hydroxychloroquine-senate-hearing-1549061
A top physician has been left "stunned" after attending a Senate hearing during which experts discussed the use of the controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a COVID-19 therapy for more than two hours.
Ashish K. Jha, Dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, was one of four expert witnesses at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing focused on the early treatment of COVID-19 patients.
Jha said in a Twitter thread that the other three witnesses "strongly supported" hydroxychloroquine — a drug that was touted by President Donald Trump earlier in the pandemic. Since then a consensus has emerged in the scientific community that the drug, which is widely used to treat malaria, is not an effective therapy against COVID-1
Hydrochloquine by itself is useless as every viroligist will state
ReplyDeleteOnly with zinc does it have any effect early on. On a chat of viroligiists it was discussed of a an alternative of a more natural drug or vitamin with less contareversy of after effects in the use of prevention on a long term basis as hydrochloroquine is a powerful drug for the treatment of covid 19
Keep shifting those goal posts.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't really have any beneficial effect for covid-19 (although it does for other indications)
ReplyDeleteThere have been many clincial trials, and they are all duds. The fallacy that physicians prescribing it don't quite see is that even with a placebo (eg sugar or chalk pill) 99% of patients will recover by themselves. So when they see these natural results, they cheer HCQ, attributing to it what would have happened in any case.
HCQ is a cult of pounding square pegs into round holes. They don't realize you can't make something into a good drug by continuously screaming about it. It just isn't a good covid drug. There are millions upon millions of compounds in nature. Most of them are not drugs. This one chemical ain't special. They fell victim to the pied pipers Raoult and Trump
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