[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Waddling Eagle

My daughter says hydroxycloroquine has not helped her patients at all.

The CDC says that this drug, if misused, can cause severe retinal damage.

So don’t be self medicating with this stuff.

No doctor will prescribe this until you have an eye exam relative to taking it, and have that same exam once a year.

[Byte1]

Originally Posted by Waddling Eagle

My daughter says hydroxycloroquine has not helped her patients at all.

The CDC says that this drug, if misused, can cause severe retinal damage.

So don’t be self medicating with this stuff.

It was successfully used to treat the SARs Conornavirus. There have been a few folks that have been interviewed that have been treated successfully for this virus. The medicine was used in Vietnam on our military members to combat malaria. Not trying to pick an argument with you, but no one was suggesting self-medication, only making a positive statement that some have found success using that medication. I believe they were treated by doctors.
If this medication does work well with this virus, it will save months or years of research and save lives NOW rather than later. I think that it's a good bit of news in a seriously bad time.

[Fred2016]

Death toll in New York has spiked 110% since yesterday. If there was such a pill or pills this would not be happening.
Be careful of the rumors you hear.

[wiltma]

Those tweets were from long ago. Look at the dates. Let’s be real here folks

[SusanKD]

Go to cdc.. gov or John Hopkins. Edu for Accurate information

[wiltma]

We have enough to deal with without this false information.

[FredJacobs]

I had a friend from the UK and he said, "A major difference between the Brits and the Yanks is that in the UK we say, 'we have a situation' and in the U.S. you say, 'we have a problem'. The difference - a problem implies a solution!"

[Woolyg]

If you are in NYC hospitalized with COVID 19 there is not a lot of good news.. Yesterday the death count was 199, this am it grew to 280... As the Gov said.. Many more deaths will happen in the next week or 2 as the hospitals are pushed beyond capacity. It's just a numbers game and math isn't bias to anyone.

[Heyitsrick]

NY's Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo has approved the testing of the "hydroxychloroquine cocktail". Comments here about this drug combo efficacy being "misinformation" or simply touted by non-scientists or alt-whatever news sources is unequivocally wrong.

If people want to wait for full-scale long-term studies, that's fine. Tell that to a dying patient - perhaps (and hopefully not) someone you know - with no other hope. At least give the willing a chance. There's no guarantees, of course, but these are not normal times.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that drug trials to test coronavirus treatments will begin in the state Tuesday, after President Trump on Thursday said the Food and Drug Administration approved one of the drugs for clinical trials, as New York becomes the epicenter for the pandemic in the U.S.

During a Sunday press briefing, Cuomo said 750,000 doses of chloroquine, 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine and 10,000 doses of Zithromax were acquired by New York state for the trial.

Chloroquine (an anti-malaria drug) and hydroxychloroquine (used for lupus and arthritis) were approved by the FDA for clinical trials as possible coronavirus treatments, while Zithromax is a brand-name antibiotic.

"The president is optimistic about these drugs and we are all optimistic that it could work,” Cuomo said.

The medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reported March 9 that Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine, was effective in killing the coronavirus in laboratory experiments. Plaquenil was first approved in 1995 and, in addition to treating malaria, is used in patients with lupus or arthritis.

New York To Begin Clinical Trials For Coronavirus Treatment Tuesday, Cuomo Says

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Heyitsrick

Comments here about this drug combo efficacy being "misinformation" or simply touted by non-scientists or alt-whatever news sources is unequivocally wrong.

That's not what the comments are about. The misinformation is the anecdotes and accolades. This combination is not readily available to the public. It is not "proven" to work in humans for Coronavirus. It is being tested. You can't just get a prescription for it, and if you try to get a prescription for the individual parts of the combination and take it, you could end up dead.

Again - this cocktail is not yet PROVEN to be effective. It is being studied. Sure there's hope that the end result will be an effective treatment. And sure that result might come quickly, now that it's being studied.

But it is misinformation to claim that it has already been proven to work, OR that "a family friend who I know so well I'm not even sure how old they are" took it and recovered the next day, while under hospital care, and therefore it MUST be that cocktail and there's absolutely no possibly way that the virus had already completed its journey through the patient's body and was simply over the next morning."

And this person knows for sure because he's a doctor? Nah - because he's a stock trader.

Get real people. You're not stupid, you managed to live long enough to get a lovely home in a wonderful community. Surely you got here by not being that gullible.

[Bucco]

Originally Posted by Heyitsrick

NY's Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo has approved the testing of the "hydroxychloroquine cocktail". Comments here about this drug combo efficacy being "misinformation" or simply touted by non-scientists or alt-whatever news sources is unequivocally wrong.

If people want to wait for full-scale long-term studies, that's fine. Tell that to a dying patient - perhaps (and hopefully not) someone you know - with no other hope. At least give the willing a chance. There's no guarantees, of course, but these are not normal times.





New York To Begin Clinical Trials For Coronavirus Treatment Tuesday, Cuomo Says

tests have been ongoing for a bit now.

" As of Friday (March 20), 86 clinical trials of COVID-19 treatments or vaccines that are either ongoing or recruiting patients. New ones are being added every day, as the case count in the U.S. (and globally) skyrockets. The drugs being tested range from repurposed flu treatments to failed ebola drugs, to malaria treatments that were first developed decades ago."

Relative to Plaquenil (I take this for rheumatoid arthritis myself), a quote about this drug..

"However, the CDC noted that the small, non-randomized study "did not assess clinical benefit[s]" associated with the treatment; in other words, the study did not probe whether the treated patients were more likely to recover and survive their illness. Additionally, the agency advised that doctors should be cautious when giving either drug to patients with chronic disease, such as kidney failure, and especially those "who are receiving medications that might interact to cause arrhythmias."

Treatments for COVID-19: Drugs being tested against coronavirus | Live Science

This link will update you on ALL drugs being tested

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by Bucco

Any chance you have a link for this info ? I need good news.

These "news conferences" daily are beginning to be rallies. Lots of self congratulation as death tolls rise, unemployment surges, hospitals are collapsing and are overwhelmed, state and local leaders warn the worse to come.

So, give me a legit link to good news. The link you supply is from Bahrain.

Everybody should just believe what they want because everybody has their own ideas what to do. The best thing to do is not to read comments on anything like this or any article that you can comment on because there’s always someone that’s going to be an expert on the subject.

[ALadysMom]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

That's not what the comments are about. The misinformation is the anecdotes and accolades. This combination is not readily available to the public. It is not "proven" to work in humans for Coronavirus. It is being tested. You can't just get a prescription for it, and if you try to get a prescription for the individual parts of the combination and take it, you could end up dead.

Again - this cocktail is not yet PROVEN to be effective. It is being studied. Sure there's hope that the end result will be an effective treatment. And sure that result might come quickly, now that it's being studied.

But it is misinformation to claim that it has already been proven to work, OR that "a family friend who I know so well I'm not even sure how old they are" took it and recovered the next day, while under hospital care, and therefore it MUST be that cocktail and there's absolutely no possibly way that the virus had already completed its journey through the patient's body and was simply over the next morning."

And this person knows for sure because he's a doctor? Nah - because he's a stock trader.

Get real people. You're not stupid, you managed to live long enough to get a lovely home in a wonderful community. Surely you got here by not being that gullible.

So if you get COVID-19 and you are gasping for breath, don’t take anything that hadn’t been thoroughly studied and given a full stamp of approval.Then we won’t be hearing from you any more.

Let the seriously ill people and their own doctor decide what is best for them.

[aallbrand]

please please stop broadcasting things you read on the internet about medications . Please remember so much of what you read have no credibility .

[GoodLife]

[QUOTE=OrangeBlossomBaby;1733927]That's not what the comments are about. The misinformation is the anecdotes and accolades. This combination is not readily available to the public. It is not "proven" to work in humans for Coronavirus. It is being tested. You can't just get a prescription for it, and if you try to get a prescription for the individual parts of the combination and take it, you could end up dead.

Again - this cocktail is not yet PROVEN to be effective. It is being studied. Sure there's hope that the end result will be an effective treatment. And sure that result might come quickly, now that it's being studied.

But it is misinformation to claim that it has already been proven to work, OR that "a family friend who I know so well I'm not even sure how old they are" took it and recovered the next day, while under hospital care, and therefore it MUST be that cocktail and there's absolutely no possibly way that the virus had already completed its journey through the patient's body and was simply over the next morning."

And this person knows for sure because he's a doctor? Nah - because he's a stock trader.

Get real people. You're not stupid, you managed to live long enough to get a lovely home in a wonderful community. Surely you got here by not being that gullible.[/QUOTE

Stop trying to scare people and telling them what they are allowed to post, you are not the hall monitor here. Millions of people (including me) have taken plaquenil drug for malaria, and millions have taken Z-Pak (including me) for infection and they are just fine. These drugs are in wide circulation. Doctors in Miami, New York and all over the world are now giving these drugs to coronavirus patients per FDA guidelines, clinical trials have also started, and there is nothing wrong with posting about it.