re: These "Hydroxychloroquine+Misc" medicine studies: How long could they take?

I have thyroid disease which is a common autoimmune problem. So while I’m DEFINITELY not a doctor, or good at math, I thought I had Lupus or Rheumatoid arthritis when I was first diagnosed. I remember reading then that they treated those with a malaria drug and thought it was super weird. However, I later came to understand its bc these are all autoimmune conditions and so Hydrocloriqiine calms down your immune system to keep it from attacking healthy tissues. (Joints with RA, various tissues with Lupus, and thyroid with Hashimotos).

Once this came up in the news, I’ve always been a believer that Hydrocloroquine SHOULD work (bc of that background).

It appears why the combo btwn Hydrocloroquine and Z PAC is good is that the virus imbeds itself in the lung tissue bc that’s the most attractive part of your body for it to hang out. Then your immune system freaks out and starts attacking your lung tissue. The HydroC calms down your immune system so you stop destroying yourself and the Zpac for whatever reason has antiviral properties so the Zpac does the work for your immune system while it chills out for a while.

My concern about the “trials” is that they seem to be doing them late in the game in disease process so some damage may already be done and it’s irreversible.

I’m an English Major not a doctor, but logical sense would tell me that HClor alone is prophylactic bc your antibodies are on chill so if you get the virus your body won’t freak out and canabalize yourself. Adding the Zpac if you get it seems to help the cold run its course, so long as you increase or at least continue the HCl.

Because it’s politicized now, the Ds and Media appear to have already decided the combo should fail.

Bc I’m not a scientist or a doctor, I don’t know how we test using HC as a prophylactic for a disease that the Chinese Bats just invented. But I think it’s the ounce of prevention we need while we test actual cures. In countries where they take it for malaria prevention, there’s a lower incidence of the virus.

I’d rather that the Gvt hand out Hydrocloroquine rebates for HCloroquine prescriptions than this $1200 half of us will never see and the other half of us won’t see for 6 MOs.

To me, as long as a Dr is prescribing it so he knows your medical history and so it won’t screw with some other problem- what on earth is the harm?

My God. Put everyone over 40 on it ASAP while we all have diarrhea with all of our toilet paper for the next 30 days. Seems to me to be the most sensible solution.