Hydroxychloroquine - What Goes On?

Renato1

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I like watching Fox News.

Last Monday, on his radio show, Hannity interviewed a Doctor in a New York hotspot. Doctor said, he treated 350 patients of his and 150 in another area with hydroxychloroquine, antibiotics and zinc sulfate . At that time, he had had none going to hospital and none dead.

Next day Hannity had another New York doctor on who was also treating his patients with hydroxychloroquine - he was more coy about citing facts and figures, but said his results from using the anti-malaria drug on patients were positive.

On Saturday, Tucker Carlson had another doctor on describing the nightmare in New York hospitals. The Doctor then stated that he was using the anti-malaria drug as a prophylactic.

And New York Governor Cuomo was procuring 750,000 doses of the malaria drug chloroquine; 70,000 doses of its derivative, hydroxychloroquine; and 10,000 doses of the antibiotic Zithromax.

After President Trump expressed optimism over the results that French doctors had gotten with the drugs, and he had ordered the FDA to fast track testing of hydroxychloroquine, the Governors of Nevada and Michigan then passed orders preventing their doctors from using hydroxychloroquine on their patients,

These reports sort of raised a lot of questions to me like -
Would it not be a simple statistical test to see if, on contracting the virus, the population of people currently taking the drug for Lupus and arthritis have a significantly lower hospitalisation and death rate than the general population?

Would it not be a simple statistical test to compare the hundreds already treated with the drugs after contracting the virus, to an equivalent number of people who contracted the virus a few weeks prior who weren't treated?

What's up with those State Governors banning its use? and

Is the drug useless, or are New Yorkers and people here and in other countries now dying needlessly?

Then, on The Bolt Report tonight, he reported that New York health workers are now on the anti-malaria drug.
And that France and Italy now allows it to be used in some cases.
And that our health workers will be starting a trial in three weeks.

So, is this some kind of Right Wing Conspiracy in presenting the information above?
Or, does a partial cure fo rthe epidemic exist, but it doesn't work for the public ......but it is good for health workers? (Kind of reminds me of our Face Mask discussion)

Any thoughts?
Regards,
Renato
 
To give some perspective, those who are medical will understand this.

We have a COVID patient on the hydroxychloroquine whose QTc is 600. Normally this would be very worrying.
 
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To give some perspective, those who are medical will understand this.

We have a COVID patient on the hydroxychloroquine whose QTc is 600. Normally this would be very worrying.

Is there something I should be on the lookout for with this heart issue? I had an ecg when I had the DVT due to location but not one since I've been on the plaquenil.
 
One of the things I did when I prescribed plaquenil was to get an ECG before starting to see if there was QT prolongation-if there was became a little hesitant to start it.Then a while after starting a repeat ECG to see if any change.If the QT segment remained normal no problems.
With the eye side effects an annual eye examination.but studies suggest if you keep the dose less than 500mg per day the eye problems are rare.
 
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I have read in some cheaper generic brand medications the active ingredient is not as refined as it could be and is not as readily utilised by the body.
Therefore may not work as well as the more expensive brand name medication. Something to think about. Generic may not work as well as the expensive drug.
 
Also the paper provided by the French Doctor Regarding hydroxychloroquine treatment of Covid is questionable with quiet a few holes in it. He has also produced previous papers that have left a lot of questions.
With the data supplied in this paper I don’t think it can be relied upon.

 
I have read on Lupus forums that many wont accept the generic version and only the original but goodness knows if that has been verified and not just the placebo effect.
 
Randomised, double blinded Cholorquine trial stopped due to safety hazards. No benefit demonstrated.
25% of patients had a QTc >500 in the high dose group.
 

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Though both the high dose and the low dose regimens in that trial are higher doses than used and recommended for SLE.
Hard to know if it was truly ineffective as some in the treatment arm may well have died of the treatment than the disease.

A couple more articles.

And a very interesting basic science article on the virus.

 
Some Swedish hospitals have opted to stop using it.

Well the reports of visual loss are surprising.Yes a well known side effect but it usually takes a year or more to develop and rare if the dose is under 500mg per day.I suspect a nocebo effect could be going on.That is some people told of the side effects then develop them.I well remember one young woman, who really didn't want to take medication for epilepsy, telling me the drug had caused a loss of libido and increased sexual urges.Yes both were listed on the CPI sheet provided with the drug.
 
Well the reports of visual loss are surprising.Yes a well known side effect but it usually takes a year or more to develop and rare if the dose is under 500mg per day.I suspect a nocebo effect could be going on.That is some people told of the side effects then develop them.I well remember one young woman, who really didn't want to take medication for epilepsy, telling me the drug had caused a loss of libido and increased sexual urges.Yes both were listed on the CPI sheet provided with the drug.
Agree re the issue of vision. I thought it was over a period of years that deposits occur but regular checking establishes a baseline.
Did you need to suppress a chuckle at the libido thing?
 
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Perhaps but there were multiple reports of some Swedish hospitals stopping their trials. I only bothered to post one.



 
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