05-21-2020, 11:03 AM
(05-21-2020, 12:58 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: It’s amazing how quickly you have abandoned your do no harm argument.
Professional medical organizations which monitor research and make recommendations for best practices certainly help. The American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Food and Drug Administration, Infectious Disease Society of America, American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Institute of Health, among others all recommend against the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 except in an inpatient setting and as part of a clinical trial.
That does not include as an outpatient prophylaxis and doing so flies in the face of the “standard of care” and best practices. To put that in Army vernacular, Trump’s doctor is out their flappin’.
Let’s just ignore who is promoting this and what he is promoting. When a patient requests a medication with no proven benefit for a particular problem with real adverse effects that could result in death the provider needs to tell that patient “no” for their own benefit.
This is what the Society of Critical Care Medicine has to say . . .
https://journals.lww.com/ccejournal/Fulltext/2020/04000/Fact_Versus_Science_Fiction__Fighting_Coronavirus.15.aspx
They really should require a prescription for this drug. Instead of just letting the president say "take it" and killing everyone.
I've heard there are ongoing clinical trials to determine if hqc is effective in combating COVID and has been prescribed to some that are hospitalized with the illness. Hell, I've heard some hospitals are having doctors prescribe it instead of POTUS.
There's also this:
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/05/12/nyu-study-looks-at-hydroxychloroquine-zinc-azithromycin-combo-on-decreasing-covid-19-deaths
Quote:Researchers at NYU's Grossman School of Medicine found patients given the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc sulphate and the antibiotic azithromycin were 44 percent less likely to die from the coronavirus.
"Certainly we have very limited options as far as what we have seen work for this infection so anything that may work is very exciting," said Dr. Joseph Rahimian, Infectious Disease Specialist at NYU Langone Health.
You may have written it off, put apparently some "stupid" healthcare professionals continue to study it.
BLUF: Many are blowing this out of proportion for one reason only. We can argue back and forth for pages or we can accept that simple fact.
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