President Donald Trump said U.S. health officials should have a “good idea” whether an anti-malaria drug being tested as a treatment for COVID-19 is effective in fighting the coronavirus in “the next three days.” “Hydroxychloroquine is something that I have been pushing very hard,” Trump said Monday morning during an interview on Fox News. “I think we’re going to have a good idea over the next three days because it’s been used now in New York at my request -- 1,100 people. It’s been used. I think that’s better than testing it in a laboratory. But the doctors tell me no.”
silverharp wrote: » https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/trump-says-us-officials-should-have-good-idea-if-malaria-drug-works-on-coronavirus-in-three-days.html
BanditLuke wrote: » Jesus Christ I do hope the drugs work but if it does Trump will be unbearable. It will be like he was responsible himself for it.
Alun wrote: » I have a cousin in the UK who has lupus, and she takes hydroxychloroquine for this. There are no reported shortages so far, but she's naturally very concerned.
Marsden35 wrote: » Can't wait for him to gloat over it. He makes the best cures. Big beautiful cures.
iguana wrote: » There is no downside for Trump in touting a drug treatment that may be successful and pushing hard for it against normal protocols. If it proves a successful treatment he will be lauded. Not just by his supporters but by a lot of people who were on the fence about him. Cutting up the red tape and saving thousands of lives and letting us get back to our lives asap will make people who had little opinion on him or disliked him a bit feel grateful. He's like the hero of the movie who cut through the bull**** protocols and tested the drug on themselves, saving the world. Even a lot of people who despise him will be reluctantly grateful that his disregard for normal rules worked out and let our lives resume. If the treatment proves to be of little use, his supporters won't blame him for getting people's hopes up, they will still applaud him for trying. And he's free to jump on board the train of the next great hope. People who think he's an idiot will continue to think he's an idiot. A lot of people who are on the fence about him might even start thinking 'at least he tried' as this drags on. If the drugs end up killing people, his supports will just shrug it off as they would have died anyway. And while Trump isn't a genius of any kind, he's smart enough to know that. He's not an idiot baby blindly insisting on one treatment because he's not smart enough to understand how drug trials work. He knows damn well that there are plenty of reasons for the way these things normally work. But that in this situation he has absolutely nothing to lose by publicly championing these drugs and so, so much to gain if he's picked the right ones.
Eliezer Shrilling Grassland wrote: » I read this n I was like, "WTF"? Then I see you're a moderator of "soap operas" and it made perfect sense.
notobtuse wrote: » In the USA the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has just granted physicians an emergency authorization to prescribe chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to certain patients with COVID-19 symptoms. This decision was based on initial successes with them in Europe. And the HHS will begin accepting tens of millions of doses for distribution to hot spots around the nation.
JP Liz V1 wrote: » Where was the success in Europe?
mvl wrote: » was this info posted here ?https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/03/29/italy-finally-starts-mass-treatment-with-hydroxychloroquine - on hydroxychloroquine - in my home country it is also part of the treatment for coronavirus patients that have developed pneumonia (critical and less critical cases); currently they've around 10% cases recovered, when first reported case was on 25 Feb (currently, total cases per 1 million population is at 110, and 3 deaths per million). Things would get worse back there next weeks, but at least seeing they've couple of hundreds recovered gives me some hope.
AmberGold wrote: » On this basis it looks like a home run for the Orange lad. You’d have to hand it to him if this plays out in his favour.
The Hound Gone Wild wrote: » This isn't a research paper. I love how the GP has ethical reservations about a trial at such an advanced stage of the outbreak but no eithical dilemmas about treating patients with unproven drugs inc. azithromycin for some reason?
manster wrote: » Currently taking Azithromycin Teva 250mg tablets (One per day) + Hydroxchloroquine Sulphate 200mg (one X 3 times daily) Issued by hospital pharmacy after being admitted for 4 days last week. Tested positive. Back at home now in isolation but improving every day. Not sure if it is the meds but I'm sleeping a lot.
JP Liz V1 wrote: » Is Teva antibiotics?
iguana wrote: » Under what condition would this treatment be administered? Would it be given prophylactically to asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic confirmed cases? With what we are learning about the virus that would seem unnecessary unless the patient was quite elderly or has relevant underlying health issues. Or only when a patient has started having severe symptoms but before they turn critical?
Wibbs wrote: » Yep. Azithromycin is commonly enough administered for bacterial pneumonia.
