re: Great news! Azithromycin & Chloroquine: victory lap

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You will not get this treatment if you are not severe so it really doesn’t matter.

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Dr. Mederith Clement with the LSU Health Sciences Center in NO was on Laura Ingraham last night.
I think what I heard her say they are doing is:
- positive test, mild or no symptoms: no treatment
- more severe to very severe: hcq prescribed
- on a ventilator: the other medicine that starts with an R.

She could/would not report on the results nor did she say how many were being treated.

She did say she would come back on the show and give a progress report.

I can not find a video on line or I would link it.

A “cure”. What a joke

If this treatment helps, all you sad sacks are going to be once again exposed as rooting against humanity because you hate Trump.

HCQ is believed to also help suppress an overreaction by the immune system.

The z-pak wards off secondary infections - which is what ultimately kills most folks with severe CV pneumonia.

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And the study wasn’t blinded, meaning the patients knew what they were getting, nor was it randomized. That limits the scientific merit of the study."

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So, you’re suggesting the placebo effect will cure Covid? That’s even better news.

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HCQ is believed to also help suppress an overreaction by the immune system.

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The z-pak wards off secondary infections - which is what ultimately kills most folks with severe CV pneumonia.

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Now, this is essentially true, but with a caveat: HCQ was developed to treat malaria (as was "plain" Chloroquine Phosphate), as were all of the drugs in that category, probably the most famous of which is quinine before the recent spotlight on HCQ (Plaquenil).

These drugs are toxic and dangerous (Chloroquine more so than HCQ) and are generally limited in the United States to lupus and rheumatoid arthritis (both autoimmune disorders). While primarily antiviral in nature, they also suppress the immune system, thus z-pak or other moderate-to-strong antibiotic cycle is indicated to avoid secondary infections.

Without further study, we won't be sure if it is the directly antiviral properties or some combination of antiviral and immune system suppression that gives it its punch (if any is realized) against the Wuhan virus. It would be ironic if some suppression of the immune system is in order with compromised immune system being a critical risk factor for this particular virus.

One good thing that has come out of the AIDS epidemic - the human race got really smart about fighting viruses again, having relied on vaccine and geography for far too long.

Great news!

(What can the Dims do to screw this up?)

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I remember hearing my parents’ friends who were in Vietnam complaining about quinine.

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Hydroxychloroquine has a much much better safety profile than quinine

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I agree about the potential side effects, but we really don’t have time to split hairs.

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No question. We generally know what safe doses are and the risks of treatment. What the "scientist" docs are concerned about is the quantifiable benefit, so that a more informed decision can be made about incurring that known risk for some unspecified benefit.

Frankly, for a novel disease with an alarming (if relatively low in the grand scheme of things) risk, depending on individual demographics and morbidities, such concerns should be secondary at a certain point.

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A “cure”. What a joke


You’re a despicable individual.

Everyone can see what you’re about here.

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Dude has completely exposed himself to be a total unmitigated piece of shite.