eau de sauvage wrote on 04/23/20 at 04:10:10:Who could ever have guessed that hydroxychloroquine was utter bs, er everyone except the bs master in chief. As if it was going to work. But what did Trump and his little mouthpieces on these forums say, 'oh it can't hurt'.
Er think again...
but in the past week or so, Trump has all but stopped talking about hydroxychloroquine. And so have Fox News’s hosts.
The relative silence follows disappointing, even alarming, new research about hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. A study released this week on 368 male Veterans Affairs patients with the disease showed that the death rate among those given the drug, both in combination with another drug and alone, was higher than for those who were not.https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-news-hosts-go-mum-on-hydro... I finally saw this video. The study is bogus bullcrappe.
The study is not a blind controlled trial - the standard required for being even submittable for peer review - which this wasn't.
The fatality rates etc etc are not indexed to severity and the study was from random after the fact deaths. In fact the ones not on HCQ were the least severe and the HCQ+az were the most severe. Those 2 being so close really is telling that that combo worked a lot better.
Then the biggest kicker is -
The fools who did this have no idea who HCQ works. This is as stupid as you trying to hammer a nail in the wall using your motorcycle to bash it in, and then complaining that the wall has caved and its the motorcycles fault.
HCQ is a zinc into the cell transport enhancer.
Zinc kills off the virus's ability to replicate.
To get zinc to be more effective, the additional supplements are Vitamin D, vitamin C etc.
Azithromycin is an antibiotic, helps a little more effective killing of germs.
HCQ needs vit D, Vit C and most importantly zinc to do anything. Azithromycin is just a killer, get it into where the virus is, it kills that, else it will kill bacteria in your digestive tract. This will not work without zinc. No zinc was given - end of story. Bad study with dead people conducted bass ackwards.
Cool.
Srinath.