regarding Hydroxychloroquine...
>The attached article was written back in October, 2020...just after Trump was successfully treated for a very symptomatic case of COVID-19...it includes a comprehensive overview of the role, or lack thereof, of HCQ in his doctors' "Tx" of him...here are some telling excerpts from that article...
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"When the president’s doctors described the range of treatment Trump received to deal with the virus, however, hydroxychloroquine was not mentioned.
Dr. Sean P. Conley, the president’s physician, said that Trump was given an infusion of an experimental antibody treatment, which involved a five-day course of antiviral drug remdesivir. He also was given zinc, vitamin D, melatonin, aspirin and the heavy-duty steroid dexamethasone. But not hydroxychloroquine."
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"As Kellie Owens, a health researcher at Data & Society, pointed out, “To be clear, because hydroxychloroquine got so much attention from the president, and was subsequently studied so heavily, it’s probably one of the things in the pandemic where the science is the most settled. The most recent meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials that I’ve seen showed no benefit to hydroxychloroquine, and suggests potential increases in mortality.”.
Note: what she means by "potential increases in mortality"
is the fact that HCQ can induce life threatening arrhythmias in elderly patients...i.e. the ones most in need of treatment for COVID-19...something any responsible physician would take into account...somehow, Baron doesn't even mention it.
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All of this was known in October, 2020, yet Baron continued to push this 'snake oil' in March, 2021 on this board in posts that I challenged...and to this day, he states "But then Trump was given it and got better,"...as shown, this is demonstrably FALSE!, yet he accuses others of not telling the truth...'Talk about a piece of work'...indeed.
What's more, it was extremely unethical for Baron to not mention the very real findings re: HCQ that showed deadly arrhythmias as a potential side effect to a drug that has never demonstrated efficacy against COVID-19.
IMO, had Trump pushed Ivermectin, Baron would be pushing it too.
Regarding Dr. Fauci...he has a very public record of accomplishment...Baron has none.
Finally, I have to chuckle whenever Baron mounts his "High Horse" and addresses his supposed inferiors...as I told him shortly before he invoked his "Ignore" privilege...I once mentioned a post of his on the subject of HCQ to our very real and accomplished Infectious Disease and ICU family doctors...they quickly and unequivocally rejected his contention...then, when I mentioned another post of his, they even more quickly stopped me from going further, saying they didn't want to waste their time on someone like that...in the presence of true experts in this "COVID Arena", Baron wouldn't stay on that horse for a millisecond.
Link: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2020/10/16/trump-covid-treatment-exposes-hydroxychloroquine-kooks-like-andy-biggs/3674420001/