re: why hasn't someone brought a lawsuit to make HCQ available based on the "Right to Try" law

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For what it's worth, most pharmacists have doctorates and 4 year educations.
Most physicians have an MD. Many have a DO. Very few that practice clinical medicine have PhD.

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Be that as it may, I want my doctor prescribing my medications not Dottie at Publix

It’s not an antibiotic or an antiviral. It’s a anti parasitic. It’s a malaria med that appears to treat COVID pretty damn good if administered early enough.

Try to find anything positive about this drug in regards to covid on the internet. You have to dig. They don’t want us to know.

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Because it’s a prescription drug. If people want to try it then I’m all for it, but people shouldn’t be able to buy prescription antibiotics OTC without a prescription

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antibiotics?

"stop allowing fricking pharmacists with 3 weeks of traing to overrule phd physicians "

First off, Pharmacist do not overrule Physicians. We are obligated to verify the validity of all prescriptions. Given a valid prescription for HCG, I am sure the vast majority of Pharmacist would fill that prescription without hesitation.

Secondly, Pharmacist do not decide whether a medication is OTC or prescription. That is out of our hand. Currently, HCQ is a legend drug and thus can only be prescribed pursuant to a valid prescription.

Finally, the only thing preventing people from getting HCQ for COVID would be the prescribers. Physicians are allowed to prescribe medications off label as they see fit. Apparently, the medical community does not value the data on HCQ as much as some on this board do.

But rest assure, Pharmacist are not the impediment to HCQ therapy.

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It’s not an antibiotic or an antiviral. It’s a anti parasitic. It’s a malaria med that appears to treat COVID pretty damn good if administered early enough.

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HCQ works as an ionophore. So you need to be nutritionally dosed with your RDA of zinc. The zinc ion interrupts RNA polymerase in the epithelial cells keeping the virus from replicating. Other ionophores could also work and this not only slows the coronavirus it slows down other viruses that require RNA polymerase to replicate.

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What kind of doctors are you referring to?

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IM, FM, med/peds, renal, EM, and pulm/crit. Mostly self-employed, independent folks. Range of experience is from fresh out of residency to 35ish years.

I watched part of the video today. The Houston, TX doctor touting how absolutely every patient she had lived and that the death rate could be zero was a bit too sensational to believe as I and many others near me have a different experience.


I tend to get told I'm negative on here quite a bit, but the reality is that it's going to kill a lot of people. Nothing would prevent many of the deaths. The early guidance on treating these people was truly awful (excessive volume resuscitation, early intubation, avoidance of NIPPV...), but the fact has remained from the beginning that the vast majority of these people are going to get better, and that has not been questioned for a few months now. The real questions have become
1) how do we identify those who are going to do poorly?
2) what percentage of people are going to do poorly?
3) how do you measure early intervention in a disease where most would get better with no real help from a doctor/nurse/etc accurately without the first 2 questions answered.

The risk of confirmation bias with this therapy remains very high and, unfortunately, fairly political. It is a very interesting time to be in medicine.

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appears to treat COVID pretty damn good if administered early enough.

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Like other disease treatments.