In short, hydroxychloroquine works if you prescribe it super early. It doesn't work if you prescribe it late. Works the same way HIV works, another virus for which there is no cure nor vaccine.
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While there have been reports of other hospitals noticing that the lupus wing never got sick, this 17 patient (with 50% nonlupus comorbidities) preventative study in France really hurts the HCQ as a preventative theory I was backing.
@mgirdley https://ard.bmj.com/content/early/2020/04/24/annrheumdis-2020-217566 …pic.twitter.com/mrHAkRbhHK
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Some research summaries. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w6p_HqRXCrW0_wYNK7m_zpQLbBVYcvVU/view … The jury's still out, but it seems like a treatment that should be available, not banned as it was in Arizona.
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Yep. I guess the main externality concern is whether this creates a shortage of the drug for people with known use-cases like Lupus, etc.
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I worry if that somehow is why hcq is getting poopooed. It wasn’t so long ago that the same theory was applied to masks for hc workers.
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For me, I keep in mind: HCQ is a generic. Remdesevir and other treatments are patented. Big difference in $ there.
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Preaching to the choir on that one: https://twitter.com/molson_hart/status/1257519049099096064?s=21 …https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/status/1257519049099096064 …
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Here's another one for your consideration. It turns out far fewer smokers show up with severe COVID-19 symptoms, relative to the number of smokers, than would be expected. This has prompted a lot of questions. Here is an attempt at a preliminary answer:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192087/ …
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Very cool, so it's actually nicotine and not smoking, which coats the lungs, that's doing the trick right?
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That would be the best case. I can see myself chewing gum...
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Agreed.
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