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i live in the shadows, doing my bit for humanity.Can't take anything from Mental serious now that he has the dancing shark in his signature.
Hoax. It's more in line with flu..
purpose ; get trump out of office.
An armchair COVID-19 expert, oh joy.
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Chloroquine Is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread
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When the protein sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding site was analyzed, an interesting result was found. While SARS-CoV-2 is overall more similar to bat coronaviruses, the receptor binding site was more similar to SARS-CoV.
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Both SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV use the same host cell receptor. It also found that, for both viruses, the viral proteins used for host cell entry bind to the receptor with the same tightness (affinity).
Amazing.
Oh get off your high horse. Nine Ducking patients don't prove jackshit just yet. No randomisation, no control.
HCQ is not as harmless as you might think.
Besides, the data is inconclusive at best and controversial at worst. E.g.:
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Although Solidarity and Discovery trials are actively investigating it just as well. You know, in a desperate race to buy time.
So far remdesevir is showing some promise, if only by a bit.
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Kaletra, IL-6 inhibitors are also on the list. Some countries are even going as far as using convalescent plasma in a bid to transfuse antibodies. But there is not a lot of efficacy data so far. You can't rush in like a blind idiot.
I agree joopie let's goLets take right in our own hands and burn down telephone towers!
Disclaimer: please do not.
So because it is a potent immunosuppressive and anti-malarial medication it's also great for viral infections, right.
In vitro activity doesn't equate to in vivo activity, at best it only implies that, at least until there is evidence, solid evidence.
HCQ is used for the conditions you listed because there is evidence it works on them, because the benefits outweigh the risks.
Since we're in a situation like this, with no wiggle room for proper trials, we start trials like Solidarity and Discovery (do look them up before moaning). Some hospitals use HCQ, others get remdesevir, other still use Kaletra etc.
So imagine this, that French study is actually right, HCQ does jackshit. Then there is nothing to gain and more to lose. When you're propped to a ventilator, getting a Ducking ventricular arrhythmia really won't improve your survival odds.
You can freely access the COVID-19 topics on UpToDate.
You know, the best friend of any physician following the principles of evidence-based medicine and not some quackery.
Regardless, you do you, dude.
I'll keep this short and sweet regardless of you being a medical professional. I have a real disdain for people who largely attack the Hydroxychloroquine validation especially considering its used by TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE every day around the world and has been in circulation since the mid 1950s. I also find it concerning how same medication as used largely for various forms of ailments now offers people 'certain death' simply on the basis of the past four months.
It's disgusting and I won't stand for it. I hope what I post can be validated in the future more so. For those unaware, Hydroxychloroquine is used each day for the following;
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Lupus erythematosus
- Porphyria cutanea tarda
- Malaria
There are other uses also. Like most medication - side effects are a real present danger but so is death. Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines.
I hope this opens a lot of peoples eyes to the present dangers of a biased and complicit media.