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Useless for what? That HCQ is useless for severe cases where patient require artificial ventilation is nothing new, it has been highlighted by scientific HCQ pr
by nnx 6y ago
Useless for what?
That HCQ is useless for severe cases where patient require artificial ventilation is nothing new, it has been highlighted by scientific HCQ proponents from the beginning (eg. see Pr Raoult studies, Spain prophylaxis trial for medical staff, ...).
Severe cases are not overwhelmed by the virus but by their own immune system response... in fact there is a lower viral load during the lethal phase of the disease.
Where HCQ might be useful is for prophylaxis or in early phase of the disease to quickly reduce viral load (therefore infectivity). In this setting, plenty studies are still ongoing and positive results are visible in multiple afaik.
- SomeoneFromCA 6y agoCentral Asia (Uzbekistan in particular) uses (not-hydroxy-but-good-old-plain) chloroquine to treat Covid. Death rate is low, lowest in the world actually. You cannot trust the numbers though.
- tim333 6y agoIt's interesting in Raoult's results that they treated 3320 patients with 18 deaths or about 0.5% and you can say ok thats quite low but maybe they were young and healthy. However if you look at the age of the deaths there zero deaths under age 60 and one under 70. It seems unlikely for that to happen if the treatment did nothing. Apparently without treatment deaths under 60 are something like 20% of the total usually. (him talking about it in French https://youtu.be/Sc1-JBX2y70?t=268 https://youtu.be/Sc1-JBX2y70?t=268) I can't help but feel when historians look back on this that they will figure there were unnecessary deaths due to political biases.