Bloomberg) -- Hydroxychloroquine, the 65-year-old malaria drug that President Donald Trump has praised, appeared not to help patients get rid of the pathogen in a small study.
The pill didn’t help patients clear the virus better than standard care and was much more likely to cause side effects, according to a study of 150 hospitalized patients by doctors at 16 centers in China. The research, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed, was released Tuesday.
The drug did help alleviate some clinical symptoms of Covid-19, however, and the patients who took it showed a greater drop in C-reactive protein, a measure of inflammation.
“When testing new treatments, we are looking for signals that show that they might be effective before proceeding to larger studies,” said Allen Cheng, an infectious diseases physician and a professor of epidemiology at Melbourne’s Monash University. “This study doesn’t show any signal, so it is probably unlikely that it will be of clinical benefit.”
here were more side effects in the group of 75 people who took hydroxychloroquine, but they were mostly mild, the most common being diarrhea. The researchers, led by Wei Tang of Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai, wrote that the medicine’s anti-inflammatory effects probably helped alleviate patients’ symptoms.
More studies of hydroxychloroquine are underway after the medicine made headlines in recent weeks and was endorsed by Trump.
Link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/hyped-malaria-pill-doesn-t-help-clear-coronavirus-in-study/ar-BB12EEbv?ocid=msedgntp
And numerous studies have shown it to be effective.
There is some evidence that the effectiveness is much greater when given before a patient comes to the I.C.U. So, the guidance of only giving it to a patient when they reach the hospital is probably unwise.
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Again, 6,000 doctors globally have agreed that this is currently the most effective treatment. And there is a separate study performed right in Wuhan that contradicts this 150-person study that you linked.
We really have a challenge ahead of us with this recovery given that about 25% of te population will be actively resisting it. Fortunately, I believe Donald Trump is the man for the job.
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medical science paradigm, because it rarely passed blinding trials. But somehow it works clinically on many patients.
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It's an empirical approach.
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you, and you exhausted all other scientific formula which don't work on you, why don't you try it? Oh,, I know, I know, I know why. Because Trump once recommended this one, it becomes a tough pill for TDS to swallow.
isn’t recommending it, maybe because it hasn’t be proven to help, maybe because a lot of those supporting it are dip shits like you. There are others.
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well water does not interfere with river water.
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At least not as a magic bullet cure. Another trial of it was just halted in China.
Fuck fuck.
Link: https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/gilead-sciences-covid-19-drug-remdesivir-positive-but-inconclusive-51586785242
and Voila', a cure for COVID19 has arrived.
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Utterly useless data from an actual scientific standpoint.
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