Hydroxychloroquine Has about 90 Percent
Chance of Helping COVID-19 Patients,
States Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS)
GlobeNewswire,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Zarin,
4/29/2020 12:53:44 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. - In a letter to Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presents a frequently updated table of studies that report results of treating COVID-19 with the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ, Plaquenil®). To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths (skip) The antiviral properties of these drugs have been studied since 2003.
Source corrected and dateline restored.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/29/2020 12:57:05 PM (No. 395514)
But Kwai Chang Fauci will dismiss this as 'anecdotal'
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/29/2020 1:01:31 PM (No. 395516)
But - - but - - but - - hydroxychloroquine is evil. It's a right-wing hoax straight from orange man bad.
This report must be removed from the internet - - in the name of free speech.
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JunkYardDog 4/29/2020 1:11:12 PM (No. 395526)
Fauci is whispering bad advice into Trump's ear. Didn't he say that we may 'never go back to the way it was' before COVID? What would he have said if he were pushing his agenda back in the 1300's when the whole world was ravaged by the Black Plague? We may never go back to the way it was? How the hell would he know? Personally, I thin that COVID has been here since November last year, and that a LOT of Americans had it and weren't symptomatic, and that it's high time to forego all this social distancing BS and resume our lives. If Cuomo hadn't put COVID-infected in nursing homes (what a blunder! Cuomo should be charged with MANSLAUGHTER) and if DeBlasio had closed the schools a couple weeks earlier then NY wouldn't have such an obscene death toll-one that hasn't been replicated in our country anywhere else. People died at a higher rate in NY because of Cuomo and DeBlasio and their boneheaded policies.
All this COVID hysteria is beong used to hurt Trump and to hurt us for electing Trump. Vote to re-elect Trump, and NYers vote out all the Democrat scum that have done nothing for you except increase your fear, uncertainty, and maybe killed your loved ones in the nursing homes.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
IowaDad 4/29/2020 1:18:13 PM (No. 395535)
So, with hydroxychloroquine, 91.% of patients do well. Without hydroxychloroqine, 9.3% might do poorly.
Hmmmm?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 4/29/2020 1:25:20 PM (No. 395544)
Well it's clearly the end of Donald Trump's reign of terror now.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Alecto2 4/29/2020 1:43:41 PM (No. 395559)
Especially #1 as Fauci's just released study endorses Gilead's remdesivir (what a shocker ..s/)
Meanwhile, a randomized study out of Wuhan says remdesivir made no difference. This study has been peer reviewed and published in the Lancet.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/29/2020 1:44:01 PM (No. 395560)
Stuart Varney complained that HQC, if it had to be given by infusion, could only be given in hospital. As I shouted (I talk back at tv a lot these days), “no”. Infusions can be given in a number of outpatient settings and even at home. About then Dr. Siegel chimed in and agreed with me.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/29/2020 1:46:23 PM (No. 395561)
HCQ
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/29/2020 1:54:47 PM (No. 395563)
But the governors of Michigan and Washington want pull the medical license of any doctor who prescribes it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/29/2020 2:04:44 PM (No. 395568)
Im waiting for that media apology to Trump.....waiting....waiting....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/29/2020 2:17:50 PM (No. 395571)
That study cherry picked its data. How do I know? Dr Vladimir Zelenko personally treated over 1000 patients positive for Covid with HCQ and zinc. Dr. Didier Raoult (France) treated around 2400. What's the number in this report? 2300 or so? And it includes the VA study which wasn't a study at all but a poorly written hit job.
In spite of that, HCQ shows that it works. It will be my choice if I get the bug.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
EQKimball 4/29/2020 2:23:51 PM (No. 395574)
Well, 2,137 “anecdotes” are not a reliable sample. Let’s take six more months to do peer-reviewed, double-blind studies.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
curious1 4/29/2020 2:31:16 PM (No. 395578)
#11, be sure to include the zinc.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
john56 4/29/2020 2:34:08 PM (No. 395581)
Only 90%. Harhump. Another "unproven" remedy. HCQ (a drug I used to sell 30 years ago) is relatively inexpensive with a known side effect profile. Arthrmizcin and Zinc are in the same category -- generic, low-cost, known risk profile. The "safety" side of the equation is pretty well set.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/29/2020 2:35:30 PM (No. 395582)
Moving from anectodal to antidotal. 🙂
More good news. Remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine are now pretty certain to be good treatments. Interesting to note that the HCQ and CQ treatments are seen as effective "particularly when use early". It seems that many docs were saving it for only the really serious patients - which is apparently not the best use of it, according to this report.
At least a month ago, a doctor on Sean Hannity's show said that HCQ should be good for suppressing the cytokine storm which is frequently what kills the patients - basically an immune system overreaction that needs to be suppressed. So, it seems that what that doc, and our Very Stable Genius had surmised are panning out. Excellent.
I hope I don't get this stuff, but if I do, at least there are now several 'known good' treatments, not necessarily true a month or more ago.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
The Remnants 4/29/2020 2:57:04 PM (No. 395591)
Just a layperson, but I understand that hydroxychloroquine is less expensive because it has been around for decades and that's why the pharma-friendly want to bury it. As usual, with these people, it. Is always about the money.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
billsv 4/29/2020 3:23:59 PM (No. 395617)
The success rate might have been better, less deaths, if the patient had been treated earlier. Success on all the various treatments are best when the patient is treated at the earliest moment.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TJ54 4/29/2020 4:26:57 PM (No. 395655)
Evil, corrupt, pro-Red Chinese media wrong again. With a little luck, the virus will eradicate their industry
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/29/2020 4:44:19 PM (No. 395664)
And that's why I'm going to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Prize for Medicine...well, just because anyone can, and also because I really want to see enemedia heads explode.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Wendybird 4/29/2020 5:07:12 PM (No. 395668)
AAPS is the only professional organization I happily pay dues to, because it is the only one worth a nickel. Jane Orient saved us from HillaryCare, but her good sense was overcome by Obamacare, as a curse on all of us.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 4/29/2020 7:34:18 PM (No. 395787)
This piece mistakenly says that the FDA advised against HCQ except in the setting of a clinical trial. That advice was only for the combination of HCQ with azithromycin. Taken by itself, the FDA recommended neither for or against HCQ.
https://covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapeutic-options-under-investigation/antiviral-therapy/
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It is criminal is that most patients in the US are not being given this HCQ until they have to be hospitalized or are in a clinical trial. Early treatment is vital for survival and future health. Covid-19 wrecks the organs & can cause a stroke because the body's reaction to the virus is to form blood clots. The HCQ & zinc stop the reproduction of the virus in the body very quickly. The studies stated did not include reports from Italy where they are seeing few hospital admissions of people who are treated with HCQ early.