GoodLife
04-14-2020, 06:00 PM
Good interview with with Dr. Marlow Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer at Cano Health in Miami about using hydroxychloroquine in their 46 medical offices in Florida.
So, hydroxychloroquine is not a panacea, but we've used it against immune system-derived overreactions for decades. It's safe for most patients. And as long as it is an individualized treatment decision within a clinical setting, I'm very supportive of using it because it's one of the tools, an important one, no doubt, that we must use until everything is ultimately discovered.
So now I know there's a lot of opinions out there and fortunately, the introduction of politics into the mix. This is a medical issue, not a political one. But unfortunately, just because this is an unprecedented and historic event affecting so many people throughout the world, it's inevitable that there is the introduction of non-medical type of nature. Like, for example, when I hear somebody saying there are no studies to support its use. That is simply not correct.
Florida Doctors Cautiously Using Hydroxychloroquine to Fight Coronavirus | WLRN (https://www.wlrn.org/post/florida-doctors-cautiously-using-hydroxychloroquine-fight-coronavirus#stream/0)
So, hydroxychloroquine is not a panacea, but we've used it against immune system-derived overreactions for decades. It's safe for most patients. And as long as it is an individualized treatment decision within a clinical setting, I'm very supportive of using it because it's one of the tools, an important one, no doubt, that we must use until everything is ultimately discovered.
So now I know there's a lot of opinions out there and fortunately, the introduction of politics into the mix. This is a medical issue, not a political one. But unfortunately, just because this is an unprecedented and historic event affecting so many people throughout the world, it's inevitable that there is the introduction of non-medical type of nature. Like, for example, when I hear somebody saying there are no studies to support its use. That is simply not correct.
Florida Doctors Cautiously Using Hydroxychloroquine to Fight Coronavirus | WLRN (https://www.wlrn.org/post/florida-doctors-cautiously-using-hydroxychloroquine-fight-coronavirus#stream/0)