Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer

Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by logicbombr on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:23AM (#22785683)

Prevent Senior in Brazil, an health operator with mosts of its patients on risk groups (60+ yo) are using hydroxychloroquine on all its COVID-19 patients with tremendous success.

Right now I choose to believe on MD in front line rather then in Health Societies, FDA, WHO and those bureaucrats who let the virus spread all around due to its incompetence

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by Terretta on Sunday April 05, 2020 @02:53PM (#22787565)

Doctors and clinicians on front lines in NYC and greater NYC area say it's not helping at all, that they've by and large given up on using it.

So I could reply that right now I choose to believe these MDs and ARNPs on front lines rather than commenters on HN. But that's not helpful compared to research.

This one is a mess, and the tiny sampling of articles we have are not definitive.

// Disclaimer: Lived in Africa for a decade, took anti-malarials. These and others can be nasty for a lot of people, some folks have to hunt to find things that aren't worse than the occasional bout of malaria. In fact, while my family took them, I never found anything tolerable. Curiously, the rest of the family got malaria, I did not.

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by logicbombr on Sunday April 05, 2020 @05:23PM (#22788847)

Cuomo just said he is confident about hidroxychloroquine as NYC may see a plateau soon

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 on Monday April 06, 2020 @03:18AM (#22791517)

This is the confusing thing about hidroxychloroquine right now. Two people looking at the same data, one saying it’s helping and one saying it’s doing nothing.

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by jacquesm on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:25AM (#22785704)

Do you have a reference for this?

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by andrenth on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:37PM (#22786985)

This local news article (in Portuguese) has quotes from Prevent Senior executives: https://www.diariodaregiao.com.br/_conteudo/2020/04/cidades/...

“Every patient showing symptoms and with CTs indicating the presence of Covid-19 are invited to join the protocol. We’ve discharged more than 200 patients”.

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by logicbombr on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:43PM (#22787029)

You can use Google Translate

https://www.google.com.br/amp/s/noticias.uol.com.br/saude/ul...

Hospitals like Albert Einstein and Sirio Libanês are also using it but patients must sign a term and take full responsibility over any complications.

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by hprotagonist on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:38AM (#22785781)

as we say on the internet, [citation needed]

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Re:Hydroxychloroquine Probably Isn’t the Answer by js4ever on Sunday April 05, 2020 @03:09PM (#22787703)

Agreed, also Hydroxychloroquine cost only few cents per pill, its probably too hard to swallow for big labs that want to sell $$$$$ treatment instead ... Poor them ...

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