Hydroxychloroquine can't stop COVID-19. It's time to move on, scientists say

[Nevilledog]

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-19-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine-no-evidence-treatment

As a frontline doctor working with COVID-19 patients at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, Neil Schluger had horrific days.

“I would come into the ward in the morning to make rounds and say to the intern, ‘How did we do last night?’ And the intern said, ‘Well, I had 10 COVID admissions, and three of them have already died.’ It was like nothing I’ve experienced in 35 years of being a physician,” Schluger says.

When he first heard about hydroxychloroquine, he hoped it would work for his patients. He and colleagues prescribed the antimalarial drug for 811 of the 1,446 patients hospitalized at the medical center from March 7 to April 8. But the drug didn’t seem to help, Schluger and colleagues reported May 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

As a result, “we stopped giving hydroxychloroquine sometime in April,” he says.

And yet the numbers of cases and deaths from COVID-19 in New York City have continued to fall. “If we’d taken away a lifesaving drug, you wouldn’t expect that to happen,” he says. Instead, Schluger, now a pulmonary critical care doctor and clinical epidemiologist at New York Medical College and Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, credits old-fashioned public health measures — mask-wearing, staying home, and social distancing — for New York’s success against the virus.

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. Shouldn't Trump be looking at charges of practicing medicine without a license?

[Nevilledog]

2. In addition to speaking without a brain.

[CountAllVotes]

3. dump invested a bunch of $ in hydroxy!

He knew it was a giant FAIL and sold a load of it to Brazil.

Sadly, Brazil is not doing well with COVID-19 and having a bunch of hydroxycloroquine to pedal to the public make a stupid idea a toxic outcome!

DUMP TRUMP NOW!!!

This fraud must go NOW!!!!!!!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. That's Not Accurate

We need to stop spreading that misinformation.
The family has a small portion of the portfolio in a fund, of which a small part was stock in the company that has a lock on HCQ in the states.
They can't control day to day trading of shares, and it's such a small part of the fund, that even a 100% increase in equity value (and that didn't happen) wouldn't mean more than 0.05% improvement in fund yield.
The HCQ purchased (60 million doses, to go with 20 million in that inventory) was an HHS purchase, within the rules on spending set by Congress.
This puny investment, over which they have zero control, is a huge nothing.
It's misinformation to say he invested money in HCQ.
That money has been invested for years.
PINO and his grifter family are guilty of plenty of things. Let's not make up stuff to point out their horrible actions. Let's just use what they really did.

[NightWatcher]

5. I'm not going to stop taking it every day, 400mg

but hey, I've got lupus. I've also got a slowed heartbeat and eye issues.

[Nevilledog]

6. So you're one of those people the drug was actually intended for!

I hope you're able to get your prescription without delay caused by Nazimodo.

[NightWatcher]

8. The funny thing is the name brand is available and cheaper than generic

dumbasses want the generic

[Quixote1818]

7. Even if it has some positive impacts, it's so small they have a hard time telling if it's not just

noise. Let's be clear, it's not like the drugs that treat AIDS which help the vast majority of people who take it in a very profound noticeable way. These debates are over whether it will save 1 or 2 extra people out of 100 possibly but the right uses the ambiguous data and inflates it to sound like "most" people could be saved and that is 10000000% not the case in any scenario.

[spanone]

9. the world has moved on except the clown in the white house