yep. The two reasons it is not in wide use are:
1. Because one man mentioned it, half the politicians have tried to
get it banned on that basis alone.
2. Because it is cheap, relatively plentiful and it works, the drug
pushers are against it in favor of some unknown, new "wunder drug" that
will cost thousands of $$$$$ per dose.
Meade Dillon via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>
May 29, 2020 at 11:16 AM
https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaa093/5847586
Abstract
More than 1.6 million Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and >10
times that number carry antibodies to it. High-risk patients presenting
with progressing symptomatic disease have only hospitalization treatment
with its high mortality. An outpatient treatment that prevents
hospitalization is desperately needed. Two candidate medications have been
widely discussed: remdesivir, and hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin.
Remdesivir has shown mild effectiveness in hospitalized inpatients, but no
trials have been registered in outpatients.
Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been widely misrepresented in both
clinical reports and public media, and outpatient trials results are not
expected until September. *Early outpatient illness is very different than
later hospitalized florid disease and the treatments differ*. Evidence
about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of
hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning
efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease.
*Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated
significant major outpatient treatment efficacy*.
Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been used as standard-of-care in more
than 300,000 older adults with multicomorbidities, with estimated
proportion diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias attributable to the
medications 47/100,000 users, of which estimated mortality is 9/100,000
users, compared to the 10,000 Americans now dying each week. *These
medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for
physicians to prescribe*.
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Max
Charleston SC
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