re: Is the hydroxyclorquine working or not?

WWL featured a local woman who took it and it worked.

I know someone who had the covid and he said he was getting worse and worse until he was prescribed hydroxychloroquine. He feels like it saved his life.

It is for some people, but there isn't enough scientific data yet for the entire medical community to fully endorse it. A lot of anecdotal evidence on its effectiveness is very encouraging though.

If you don’t start taking it until your lungs look like mashed potatoes on an x-ray it doesn’t help, but if you take it early, I think it does.

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Incorrect. That's what I thought until yesterday too. See link. In the US, there are still ~423k people of ~465k confirmed cases total who have neither died or been cleared of virus. If you look at the "Recovered" (25k) and "Deaths" (16k) column...those remaining 423k are going to end up in one of them, eventually. And the death one is nowhere near 1.5%.

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You’re missing a pretty key part of this analysis - it takes much longer for someone to be deemed “recovered” than “dead”. Someone can die a week or less after onset of symptoms, but they can’t be deemed “recovered” until weeks after the end of symptoms. This becomes a huge issue when we are still on the front end of the infection curve.

I suspect that if you looked at the cumulative curves of total cases, total deaths, and total recoveries you would see this:
- Total deaths lag total cases by 1-3 weeks
- Total recoveries lag total deaths by 3-5 weeks

For example, keep in mind that almost 90% of Louisiana’s confirmed cases have occurred in the past two weeks, 50% in the past week alone. 90% of Louisiana’s deaths have occurred in the past two weeks, 56% in the past week. However, none of these cases could possibly have been asymptomatic long enough to be classified as recoveries.

If you’re going to compare deaths to recoveries you have to offset the timeline long enough to actually count the recoveries, which in Louisiana means excluding 90+% of cases.

TLDR - comparing total deaths to total recoveries only works after the outbreak is over.

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ACE Inhibitors

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Well, that screws me.... I'm on it for HBP. But, I am physically in really good shape otherwise. Heart rate in mid 70's. Cholesterol on the floor and do TaeKwon Do 4X a week....it is a great workout if you are over 50

Right. Let’s not forget, the second the WH took action in January, dems started calling it “the flu” as well. Even going as far as to encourage people to hang out in Chinatown. The politicization of this thing has been embarrassing.

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Dr. Oz has been a joke to the medical world for a long time now. He peddles bullshite on his show every damn day, the highest bidder.

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Kind of like Fauci?

I love how the same people that promote you should vape CBD oil for your anxiety (which is not scientifically proven, not FDA regulated, and potentially harmful) are against a FDA approved and regulated medication that has been around for several years and could potentially save many lives.