The man who may stop COVID-19
Donsurber.com,
by
Don Surber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/24/2020 11:19:31 AM
Lara Marlowe of the Irish Times had a terrific lead, "We could know within two weeks whether Professor Didier Raoult, the French virologist who heads the Mediterranean infectious and tropical disease institute in Marseille, will go down in history as the man who saved the world from COVID-19, or will be dismissed as an arrogant, misguided scientist(Snip)
Doctor Raoult was the one who took hydroxycloroquine off the shelf, mixed it with azithromycin(Snip) used it to treat 24 French COVID-19 patients.
It worked. 18 of them tested negative after 6 days.
(Snip)"President Donald Trump apparently learned of Raoult’s experiment through a Twitter post by the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/24/2020 11:24:40 AM (No. 356384)
Did professional jealousy prevent American scientists from reporting the results of Dr. Raoult's progress? The President had to learn of it from Twitter.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Clinger 3/24/2020 11:36:10 AM (No. 356397)
I don't get the reluctance to pull the trigger. This has been out there and approved for malaria, what's the risk, that it might not work? I can't potentially save your life because there's a chance this won't work? I'm struggling to find logic. Most certainly a time wasting distraction or removing the impetus for searching other alternatives is a potential negative consequence, but aren't we grown up enough to resist that stupidity?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/24/2020 11:54:41 AM (No. 356415)
After all the drug they used for the Ebola outbreak was experimental. . .
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jntsrgn 3/24/2020 12:02:46 PM (No. 356427)
Make no mistake, Fauci is furious it isn’t him.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
starboard 3/24/2020 12:29:16 PM (No. 356462)
France has the best track record for Coronavirus of all the major European countries. They must be doing something right. Especially being bordered by Italy, Germany, and Spain, all of them with serious outbreak numbers and deaths.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
KatieJo 3/24/2020 12:49:01 PM (No. 356482)
For those interested in really understanding how this works, please check out the article on Medicine.Net mentioned in this article. I mentioned hydroxycloroquine to my liberal niece, who happens to be a nurse, as one of the more promising cures. She dropped a somewhat condescending remark, about how she didn't think an "antiparasitic" medication could possibly work for this virus. This bothered me. It turns out that one of the key things is the fact that hydroxycloroquine is a weak base, which makes it difficult for the virus to thrive. It prefers an acidic environment. I'm a mechanical engineer, but I find these medical things fascinating and have done a ton of research. Almost everything I read has supported the assertion that most disease loves acid and hates oxygen. It would seem this is no different. I'm sure that if I pass this along to her, she'll tell me about the guy who died taking the fish tank cleaner. As if that is remotely related.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
web 3/24/2020 1:40:37 PM (No. 356519)
The FDA would like to hold trials and test it for a couple of years, costing millions of dollars, because all the evidence showing that it works is just "anecdotal," and everybody knows you can't take the word of ordinary people who were helped by it. My wife has had the same problem with Primatine Mist, which is the only thing that really helps her asthma. When you can't breath, you would rather use what works, rather than what the government has approved for your health and safety. /s
The biggest impediment to our health and safety for decades has been the FDA. They put people in prison for inventing new devices, drugs and techniques which they insisted couldn't work and were scams that are now used in mainstream medicine.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 3/24/2020 2:02:51 PM (No. 356536)
The biggest problem Trump has are the old school doctors who refuse to try anything that the FDA etc have not signed off on. Fauci, we are looking at YOU. I am so sick of these doctors who hide behind the word anecdotal so they can continue a crisis. Good on the French at any rate.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Gruntmedic 3/24/2020 2:48:36 PM (No. 356576)
The Chinese were talking about chloraquine weeks ago.
Need for FDA and NIH to stop trying to hold it up.
A Dr in NY cured 350 patients with no hospital time.
Drs need to give the combo as soon as symptoms appear.
A Dr from Standford last week,was pushing the drug,he also said it could be used as a preventative.
The side effects short term not that bad.
The effect on the eye supposedly dosen't show up for many years.
People with lupus have been on it long term.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zoidberg 3/24/2020 2:54:41 PM (No. 356580)
As a libertarian (small L) I have no problem with people taking whatever drug they want for whatever reason. Hydroxychloroquine's safety profile is well known, having been in use for decades. The efficacy is what's in question. I would want to see a bigger sample size before drawing conclusions, but it does seem promising.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 3/24/2020 3:41:13 PM (No. 356607)
Definitely worth testing more. I heard from the husband of a health worker friend that a suburban KC hosptial had a seriously ill Wuhan flu patient, losing ground steadily. In desperation, he tried chloroquine and the patient was dramatically improved in 24 hours. Did the patient survive? No info at this point, this is VERY anecdotal.
We need good, double blind testing to elminate the placebo effect, very real. But I do agree with President Trump, this should be tried and PERHAPS it will be a good treatment for Wuhan flu. And, since it does prevent malaria (it's main application) perhaps it may prevent Wuhan flu, too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
FormerDem 3/24/2020 3:53:07 PM (No. 356615)
I love that this involved Elon Musk, his strongest best traits, and I love too that it involves PDJT tweets, which vault over the MSM, who hate us.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/24/2020 4:22:25 PM (No. 356630)
If the CDC needs proof they can look at Africa. The people there have been taking the drug to fight malaria for years as a cure/preventative and their cases of Coronovirus are the least of any continent. Our CDC and FDA are dragging their feet to attempt to emphasize their relevance. Approve the drug and knock off the excuses!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/24/2020 5:55:17 PM (No. 356703)
Lived in Africa for 6 years or so. I am to this day probably saturated in chloroquine. The daily dose had to be stashed in a piece of banana that you could swallow whole. Tastes like crap. My understanding was that it wasn't that good against malaria but we took it anyway. Malaria is a parasite, not a virus.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
red1066 3/24/2020 6:21:50 PM (No. 356738)
This would never happen in the U.S. Lawyers and lawsuits would soon follow, and the CDC and other health agencies would come down on the doctor and hospital like a ton of bricks, but this is exactly what was needed. Notice Dr. F scoffs at any of this info, and blows it off as if it all hear say. It wasn't done under strict medical standards.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zarin 3/25/2020 12:38:23 AM (No. 356990)
Caught this on TV - as I was surfing - Dr. Oz asked some pointed questions. It was very informative - Dr. Raoult talked about 'virus load' and cutting the time of the illness in half. Asked about using a study with a placebo - he rightly said that was unethical and not being a doctor.
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