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Source: WSBTV Atlanta HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A Henry County woman says a controversial treatment for COVID-19 helped her beat the virus. Kimberly Sims says she remembers doctors admitting her to Piedmont Henry Hospital. The next thing she remembers was 26 days later. “My sister said all of a sudden I stopped talking and then they […]
Source: Indian Council of Medical Research 1. Background The Joint Monitoring Group under the Chairmanship of DGHS and including representatives from AIIMS, ICMR, NCDC, NDMA, WHO and experts drawn from Central Government hospitals reviewed the prophylactic use of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in the context of expanding it to healthcare and other front line workers deployed in […]
Source: FOX 2 – Detroit The FDA has warned against taking hydroxychloroquine, but President Trump says he’s taking it and isn’t concerned. Dr. William O’Neill, a world-renowned Henry Ford doctor, is leading one of the largest U.S. studies into the drug. He gives us a little more information. “The drug has been available for decades. Initially, it […]
Source: SagePub.com Convalescent blood products are promising potential therapies for COVID-19. Other antivirals such as chloroquine or HCQ, remdesivir, and immune modulators such as tocilizumab are the other potential therapies for COVID-19 that are being tested in clinical trials. The use of antiretrovirals, such as lopinavir/ritonavir, did not provide any benefit in a RCT. Steroids […]
It was on the front line, hand-to-hand combat with coronavirus, and thousands and thousands are seeing positive results from hydroxychloroquine.
Source: Willamette Week Oregon Department of Corrections infectious disease specialist Dr. Daniel Dewsnup recently requested the antimalarial drug to treat inmates afflicted with the coronavirus, department spokeswoman Jennifer Black said. The department purchased the drug “both for usual use as an anti-inflammatory drug in patients with rheumatologic disorders, and also a limited quantity for COVID-19 use,” Black […]
Source: KXAN KXAN spoke to an Austin-based doctor who says she plans to continue treating COVID-19 patients using the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in combination with other supplements. Dr. Ann Shippy, who has practiced functional medicine for the past 15 years, says she has treated 10 patients and herself for COVID-19 using the drug without any negative impacts. […]
Source: The Hill Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) revealed that he and his entire family are taking the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine “prophylactically” to ward off the coronavirus. Marshall, an obstetrician who is running in the state’s heated Republican primary for an open Senate seat, told The Wall Street Journal that he was “relieved” to hear President Trump has also decided to take […]
Source: Action News Jax JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A single mother in Jacksonville said she was sick with the coronavirus for more than 40 days. Meghan Debbie believes she came in contact with another patient while at work. “I thought I was going to die,” Debbie said. “It completely overtook me.” For weeks, she said she had […]
How can one person brag about blocking physicians’ attempt to reduce hospitalization and deaths during a national emergency?
SOURCE: CNBC News President Donald Trump said Monday that he has been taking anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for a couple of weeks to prevent coronavirus infection even though the media is reporting that it is not yet a proven treatment. “I happen to be taking it,” Trump said during a roundtable event at the White House. “A lot of good things […]
SOURCE: Covexit.com The esteemed professor Paolo Zanotto, from the University of Sao Paulo, has released a list of 50 scientific references supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19. Professor Paolo Zanotto studied virology at University of Oxford and is a Microbiology Professor at Universidade de São Paulo. He has published extensively, including in prestigious journals […]
Source: Full Measure If you’ve watched the news lately, you might be under the impression that a medicine President Trump touted as a possible game changer against coronavirus— has been debunked and discredited. Two divergent views of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, have emerged: the negative one widely reported in the press and another side you’ve probably […]
Source: Nikkei Asian Review MUMBAI/NEW DELHI – India is spending around $16 million – half of it in Africa – on pharmaceuticals, test kits and other medical assistance for some 90 countries battling the COVID-19 pandemic. The South Asian nation has already sent consignments of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), paracetamol and other drugs to 25 African countries […]
Source: MedRxiv Background: No consensus or evidence-based guideline currently exists for pharmacological therapy against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19). While South Korea has been relatively successful in managing the pandemic, its management of confirmed cases and treatment outcomes have not been reported to date. Methods: A retrospective cohort study of the 358 laboratory-confirmed SARS CoV […]
Source: NY1 NEW YORK – Researchers at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine found patients given the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine along with zinc sulphate and the antibiotic azithromycin were 44 percent less likely to die from the coronavirus. “Certainly we have very limited options as far as what we have seen work for this infection so […]
Source: The Indian Express “I am 80, but I have defeated coronavirus. Don’t worry, you can also defeat the virus…,” said the octogenarian as he walked out of the civic-run Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital on Saturday afternoon. Thanking the doctors for saving his life, the 80-year-old resident of Tadiwala Road in Pune city said, “One should […]
Source: The Texan News The Texas State Board of Pharmacy issued a new rule that no prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine could be dispensed without a diagnosis, then changed their tune. Dr. Ivette Lozano, who has been in medical practice for over 20 years, was shocked to learn in March that she would be required to share […]
Source: World Tribune Despite overwhelming positive results in treating coronavirus patients, a Texas doctor said the state’s pharmacy board is putting up “alarming” barriers which make it extremely difficult to prescribe hydroxychloroquine. In an interview on the Thursday broadcast of Fox News’s “The Ingraham Angle”, Dr. Ivette Lozano said the board asked her to reveal […]
Source: Springer Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic with no specific drugs and high fatality. The most urgent need is to find effective treatments. We sought to determine whether hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) application may reduce the death risk of critically ill COVID-19 patients. In this retrospective study, we included 550 critically ill COVID-19 patients who […]
Source: Renascenca The Director-General of Health stresses that national and international institutions continue to monitor the “evolution of the use of this medicine worldwide and are adjusting their recommendations accordingly.” The director-general of Health, Graça Freitas, says that in Portugal there is no record of adverse reactions to the drug hydroxychloroquine, which can be used […]
Source: The East African The deal follows last week’s telephone conversation between Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary (CS) Raychelle Omamo and India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. “In keeping with excellent bilateral ties and as a special gesture, India has allowed one-time export of prohibited Hydroxychloroquine Sulphate USP 200 mg (379,000 tablets) to Kenya to […]
Source: Bloomberg Scientists from the University of Oxford are starting a first-of-its-kind study to see whether available drugs can help keep older, more vulnerable people with mild cases of Covid-19 from becoming severely ill. More than 500 U.K. doctors’ offices are recruiting for the trial of drugs that are already approved for other purposes, such […]
Source: Fox News TAMPA, Fla. – Frontline healthcare workers in Tampa are participating in a clinical trial to see if a drug being used to treat COVID-19 can actually prevent the virus. It is part of a nationwide research program by HERO (Healthcare Worker Exposure Response and Outcomes) on hydroxychloroquine, an FDA-approved drug commonly used to treat malaria. “Does this hydroxychloroquine […]
Source: bisnow JLL’s head of New York investment sales, Bob Knakal, fell ill with COVID-19 five weeks ago and used hydroxychloroquine to treat his symptoms, he said on a Bisnow webinar Tuesday. “I had corona for 17 days, but fortunately it didn’t get into the lungs and after 12 days, the fever broke and I took […]
Source: Cartapiaui Following protocols established by fellow doctor Marina Bucar Barjud , who lives in Madrid, scientific coordinator of the University of Zaragoza, in Spain, doctors at the Regional Hospital Tibério Nunes, in Floriano, interior of Piauí, saved eight patients from the coronavirus with the application of an efficient cocktail based on hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin and corticoids in […]
For symptomatic patients at home, are added to this, optionally, aspirin, hydroxychloroquine and monitoring with home pulse oxiometry.
Source: Preprints Although no specific treatment for COVID 19 has been proven effective yet, some drugs with in vitro potential against SARS-CoV-2 virus have been proposed for clinical use. Hydroxychloroquine has in vitro anti-viral and immunomodulatory activity, but there is no current clinical evidence of its effectiveness on the outcome of the disease. Methods: We enrolled all […]
Source: MedRxiv Background: COVID-19 has rapidly emerged as a pandemic infection that has caused significant mortality and economic losses. Potential therapies and means of prophylaxis against COVID-19 are urgently needed to combat this novel infection. As a result of in vitro evidence suggesting zinc sulfate may be efficacious against COVID-19, our hospitals began using zinc […]
Source: THV-11 With a lot of fight and a lot of faith, 99-year-old Evelyn Rand recovered after receiving her second negative test on Thursday, May 7. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Evelyn Rand has officially recovered from COVID-19 after contracting it from Briarwood Nursing Home over a month ago. Families were devastated when they learned of […]
Source: Boston Review On January 29 the Hubei Daily, a state-owned Chinese newspaper based in Wuhan, reported on a promising development. Teams of researchers associated with the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and the Wuhan Institute of Virology had tested dozens of existing pharmaceuticals for possible efficacy against the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. They had […]
Source: NEWS 18 IndiaIndian High Commissioner to Canada Ajay Bisaria said that India and Canada are cooperating on all fronts amid the coronavirus crisis and added that an Indian shipment of 50 lakh tablets of hydroxychloroquine-HCQ would reach Canada soon. In an interview with News18, Bisaria detailed the efforts taken by the Indian High Commission in […]
Source: The Jerusalem Post Annalisa Chiusolo shows how the drug hydroxychloroquine could make people immune to virus COVID-19 damages the hemoglobin, impairing the ability of red blood cells to transport oxygen throughout the body, compromising the lungs and resulting in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Italian pharmacology scholar Annalisa Chiusolo explained to The Jerusalem Post. If her thesis […]
Source: First Coast News Shapard credits hydroxychloroquine, a drug usually used to treat malaria and lupus, and of course the doctors for his recovery. A Jacksonville man who survived COVID-19 is now donating his plasma with antibodies to try to help current patients. Author: Kailey TracyPublished: 05/02/20 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One month ago, Tommy Shapard was in a […]
Source: MedRxiv This study provides the first in vivo evidence that zinc sulfate in combination with hydroxychloroquine may play a role in therapeutic management for COVID-19. Philip Carlucci, Tania Ahuja, Christopher M Petrilli, Harish Rajagopalan, Simon Jones, Joseph Rahimian Background: COVID-19 has rapidly emerged as a pandemic infection that has caused significant mortality and economic losses. Potential therapies and means of prophylaxis against COVID-19 are urgently […]
Source: India Today As some Western studies found hydroxychloroquine ineffective as a potential Covid-19 therapy, a new Chinese research has reported that the anti-malarial drug brought down mortality rates significantly among critical coronavirus patients. The latest preprint study — which means it’s not yet peer-reviewed — is based on the clinical analysis of 568 Covid-19 […]
Source: CBSNEWS Instanbul — Turkey has the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 117,000 confirmed infections. More than 3,000 people have died. But the government has a lower fatality rate than the global average estimated by the World Health Organization at over 3%. Turkey’s Ministry of Health says the relatively low death toll is thanks to treatment protocols […]
A must watch clip of Dr Vladimir Zelenko. Here are a few transcribed excerpts: “The biggest crime thats going on now is that there are certain forces that think the American people are morons, that we can not differentiate what truth is and what lies are.” Dr Vladimir Zelenko on media disinformation on hydroxychloroquine “There […]
Source: MDedge | Hematology& Oncology Hydroxychloroquine is currently first-line, and tocilizumab second-line, for people hospitalized with polymerase chain reaction–confirmed COVID-19 in the Yale New Haven (Conn.) Health System, which operates hospitals across Connecticut, many of them hard hit by the pandemic. Patients enter the treatment algorithm if they have an oxygen saturation at or below 93% on […]
Source: Times of India WASHINGTON: Several hospitals in the US are using antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 positive patients, a media report has said. MDedge, a medical publication, on Friday reported that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is currently the first-line therapy and Tocilizumab the second-line medication for people hospitalized with polymerase chain reaction-confirmed COVID-19 infection in the Yale […]