re: Wash Post:Antimalarial drug touted by Trump is linked to increased risk of death in corona

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Good luck getting this drug in a hospital if u get covid. No self respecting emergency doc will prescribe this now.

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I have friends and relatives who are doctors and are taking/have taken hydroxychloroquine.

I know of one person who tested positive last week in Louisiana and is taking hydroxychloroquine.

They are all fine.

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You do realize the authority you’re appealing to has a terrible history of approving unsafe drugs.. as well as ... failing to approve safe, effective, and cheap drugs available in other countries,, right?

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Well, that, and, by definition, if I say, "I don't advise you do that"...………..I'm saying, "you can, I just don't advise it"

So, doctors get to make the call.

ALSO. It ain't no accident that DC is ignoring that HIS OWN LINK shows that this particular study says NOTHING about using the drug in combination.

DC just skips right over that reality.

Can you post anything else besides far let winger rags?

Perhaps not, or they should have noticed this statement as well:

“We also note that although we evaluated the relationship of the drug treatment regimens with the occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias, we did not measure QT intervals, nor did we stratify the arrhythmia pattern (such as torsade de pointes).” Meaning they did not conclusively identify whether the types of arrhythmias experienced were actually the ones associated with chloroquine/HCQ use. I also couldn’t find any mention of whether or not those arrhythmias were the actual COD in any of the cases evaluated.

That aside, the “control” group was also measurably less severely ill at baseline and had lower rates of multiple comorbidities across the board, which would automatically predispose then to better outcomes. So the foundational basis was somewhat compromised right out of the gate, even if it’s difficult to say with certainty how profoundly that would diminish the validity of the results.

Ultimately it’s an interesting analysis that suggests a need for further study. At the very least the idea that HCQ might be contraindicated in certain groups could be borne out in time. But to read the Washington Post’s take, you’d think that potential confounders are only an issue with studies that show a benefit.

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ALSO. It ain't no accident that DC is ignoring that HIS OWN LINK shows that this particular study says NOTHING about using the drug in combination.

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wtf are you even talking about

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Nearly 15,000 of the 96,000 patients in the analysis were treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine alone or in combination with a type of antibiotics known as a macrolide, such as azithromycin, within 48 hours of their diagnosis.

The difference between patients who received the antimalarials and those who did not was striking.

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Good luck getting this drug in a hospital if u get covid. No self respecting emergency doc will prescribe this now.

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Oh. I thought you had a link that tied hydroxychloroquine’s danger to the cardiac issues associated with Covid from a doctor.

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Oh. I thought you had a link that tied hydroxychloroquine’s danger to the cardiac issues associated with Covid from a doctor.

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You noticed that too.

Damn. Two complete link fails in one morning.

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Oh. I thought you had a link that tied hydroxychloroquine’s danger to the cardiac issues associated with Covid from a doctor.

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if Covid is causing adverse heart effects then wouldn't adding hcq in cause complications vs someone without Covid? That's the point i'm making.