Ask the doctors. I am not a doctor and neither are you. Don't act like you are a doctor expert which you are not. Also, President Donald Trump took Hydroxychloroquine for 14 days as a prophylactic protection under the direction of a doctor. That was a long while, before he contracted Corona Virus. He is not thru his medical treatment and might be given it as well. Of course, the gamut of effective treatments nowadays is wider than its ever been. The doctor and patient should decide the course of treatment to take, taking under consideration the person's overall health. And how the hell, do you know all the others who contracted Corona Virus was not given Hydroxychloroquine? Did you ask them or their doctors? You made your petty political jab without any proof?
Point to one example of a recently infected U..S. politician taking HCQ. Many of these Republicans followed Trump’s lead in crowing about HCQ earlier; if they were taking it now they would be loudly announcing it. Bottom line: HCQ has been found to be so deadly and ineffective in treating COVID that no U.S. politician will use it for treatment, nor would any doctor in their right mind recommend it.
Again you make it seem you talked to those infected and their doctors and be 100% sure of something you have no knowledge of. You did not, you are just arrogant that is all. When countless, doctors have noted numerous tests on the effectivity of hydroxychloroquine, you have not proven anything. And President Donald Trump did in fact take hydroxychloroquine even before he contracted Corona Virus for 14 days no less. Numerous doctors have recommended it but, extreme liberal lies are intended to reduce use of it. This is a matter of cost that is why. Remdesivir costs $1,500 a dose compared to Hydroxychloroquine $10 a dose. Big pharma wants its monies. As Doctor Simone Gold noted, it was used widely in Africa where deaths from Corona Virus was lower and a lot of those infected recovered from it faster too.
The 'evidence is clear': Hydroxychloroquine doesn't help COVID-19 patients https://www.today.com/health/eviden...oquine-doesn-t-help-covid-19-patients-t193745 Researchers at the University of Oxford in the U.K. have concluded that hydroxychloroquine does nothing to prevent COVID-19-related deaths. The research is a continuation of a major clinical trial that found that the drug — which has previously been touted by President Donald Trump and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro — had no clinical benefit. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examined the outcomes of 1,561 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who received hydroxychloroquine and compared them to 3,155 patients who served as a control group. Within a month, about a quarter of the patients in each group had died. There was also a slightly higher number of heart-related deaths in the hydroxychloroquine group; however, that finding was not robust enough to be statistically significant — meaning it could have been due to chance. "The scientific evidence is clear," said Dr. Caleb Alexander, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "There is no convincing evidence of its effectiveness for treating COVID." Hydroxychloroquine, which has been around for decades, is used to treat malaria and certain autoimmune conditions, including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. Its potential for treating COVID-19 first appeared in February with a small study from China. The study did not examine how the drug might work in COVID-19 patients but instead looked at how it behaved on a cellular level in a lab. That is typical of how research on experimental therapies generally begins. Then, other small studies from China and France hinted that the drug might, indeed, be effective in treating patients. The journal that published the French study, however, later said the article did not meet its expected standard. Within the next month, Trump publicly began touting the drug as a "game changer." The Food and Drug Administration authorized hydroxychloroquine for emergency use among hospitalized COVID-19 patients, as well as for those in clinical trials. By April, physicians on the front lines treating seriously ill COVID-19 patients had surmised that hydroxychloroquine did nothing to help. Multiple studies later provided the science to back up what the doctors were saying. The FDA pulled the emergency use authorization in June. "In light of ongoing serious cardiac adverse events and other serious side effects, the known and potential benefits" of hydroxychloroquine "no longer outweigh those risks," the FDA wrote on its website. The National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization also halted COVID-19-related trials of hydroxychloroquine. This story originally appeared on NBCNews.com.
And yet more evidence that hydroxychloroquine is useless for preventing COVID-19... University of Washington study shows hydroxychloroquine does not prevent COVID-19 https://www.seattlepi.com/coronavir...loroquine-does-not-prevent-covid-15675861.php As cases of COVID-19 rise across Washington, in what health officials are calling a "fall surge," new research is showing that the anti-malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19 is actually ineffective in preventing the virus. A trial conducted by the University of Washington found that hydroxychloroquine failed to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the virus. Funded by the Gates Foundation, the study, which began in March, enlisted nearly 800 people who either had family members with COVID-19 or were in close contact with people who had contracted the virus. Participants were randomly assigned tablets of hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for a 14-day period and daily nasal swabs were collected. At the end of the study, researchers determined that those who had taken the drug were just as likely to contract the virus as those who had taken the placebo. "We found that the number of people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 was the same in both groups so we were able to interpret the findings to say hydroxychloroquine does not have any significant prevention effect for COVID-19," said Dr. Ruanne Barnabas, lead researcher and UW School of Medicine professor. Before research had been completed on the drug, President Donald Trump touted hydroxychloroquine as a "cure" in a tweet that was marked as misinformation and later removed by Twitter. The president himself had taken a two-week course of the drug months prior to the outbreak that started in the Rose Garden with the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. "I happen to believe in it. I would take it. As you know, I took it for a 14-day period. And as you know, I’m here. I happen to think it works in the early stages," Trump said in July. UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are currently studying the antibody cocktail Regeneron which has been shown to reduce viral loads and the time it takes to alleviate symptoms of COVID-19 in non-hospitalized patients. "Monoclonal antibodies are very promising," said Dr. Barnabas, who also serves as a co-principal investigator on that study
Yet another credible source suggests the benefits of early use of the Chloroquine regime, below. The author of this video is a doctor who puts out a series of videos designed to provide his audience greater depth of knowledge on various medical issues. He has done videos on the George Floyd toxicology report to more often the effects of excessive consumption of various foods and pharmaceuticals as well as food and other poisonings. Good information for parents and others to know how vulnerable we are to seemingly minor lapses of judgement or environmental hazards whether we are at the prime of our lifes or elderly. By the way, to those who characterize Chloroquine being dangerous under prescribed use, consider the billions of doses given over the decades as a anti-malarial drug and other uses, without serious adverse effects. Additionally, note the relatively low rate of Covid-19 infection in Africa, where chloroquine use is particularly high, especially given the apparent disproportional effect Covid-19 is having on the Black community in the US. Chloroquine opens up the zinc ion channels in cells found in the lungs, preventing Covid-19 from replicating there. If Covid-19 has already amplified to a full blown virus load, say within two to three days of exposure, the Chloroquine treatment regime will not prevent future symptoms and virus replication is academic at that point. Again, the benefit to the Chloroquine regime is preventative for suspected high risk exposure cases. By the time a prospective patient is showing symptoms or has already experienced a high viral load, it is too late to gain the antiviral benefits of this treatment.
Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine are nothing more than Zinc transporters. Zinc is shown to inhibit viral replication inside cells. The key is early treatment before the virus can do damage, or as a prophylactic in combo with Zinc. After the fact, they do nothing.
First let's mention the "low rate of Covid-19 infection in Africa" -- the majority of Africa has underdeveloped public health monitoring systems. The COVID cases in Africa are greatly under-reported. For the most part countries in Africa can't afford COVID test kits unless they are donated by WHO or another agency. Due to the run-up in price and high demand outside of Africa, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are in such short supply that they can't even get doses of it to prevent or treat malaria (it's intended use). Due to this malaria is running out of control in Africa in 2020. I will note that hydroxychloroquine is not prescribed to people with heart issues, high blood pressure, or who are drugs such as metformin for diabetes. Prescribing hydroxychloroquine to people with these conditions in many countries led to a higher death rate for those with COVID caused by HCQ-- without doing anything to cure the COVID. At this point a large number of properly conducted medical studies have demonstrated that a hydroxychloroquine-based regime is useless for preventing or treating COVID. This is why hydroxychloroquine is no longer being used in most of the world for COVID treatment. This is why you don't no longer hear politicians (like Trump) and a small number of vocal medical advocates pushing hydroxychloroquine as treatment. They have all gone silent now that medical studies have demonstrated their assertions are completely false. Can you explain why if hydroxychloroquine is such a beneficial treatment for COVID why it was not used to treat Trump recently?