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originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: anonentity
Everyone with half a brain knows mask work.
The government lies to you saying they do not work for you but every healthcare worker needs them. I understand why but it is a laughable lie.
Speaking with a Doctor friend today who said they are not giving hydroxychlorquine out due to short supply and saving what they have for the infected at the hospitals.
They darn sure think it works...
I am glad they do not have to put up with a bunch of red tape, FDA, politicians, and idiots for them to try a medicine that has been around for a very long time with little or no side effects..
I took it back in the 60s and 70s as an anti Malarial drug.. Never got Malaria or maybe I was just lucky..
Alam said he decided he could not apply the touted combination of the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine and antibiotic azithromycin because the side effects could be potentially fatal for his high-risk patients, many of whom had underlying heart issues.
“I knew I could not jeopardize these patients... We know from the FDA that azithromycin can cause fatal arrhythmia and abnormal heart failure that can lead to death,” Alam said.
His patients were under long-term acute care and had comorbidities such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or congestive heart failure.
The FDA has warnings that azithromycin “can cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart that may lead to a potentially fatal irregular heart rhythm.” So instead, Alam replaced azithromycin with another decades-old antibiotic that doesn’t pose any known risks to the heart.
“Doxycycline is an anti-inflammatory with properties similar to azithromycin but without the safety concerns and without cardiac toxicity,” he said.
“The majority had clinical improvement,” said Alam. “We had very good outcomes.”
Alam said that 38 of 47 patients treated returned to their baseline and their symptoms resolved. Seven of the patients were transferred to a hospital and two died. There was no control group in the study so Alam acknowledged more studies are needed to evaluate his protocol’s effectiveness.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Boadicea
No drug out there is completely safe and without side effects.
Keep in mind that chloroquine is and has been widely used for decades despite these side effects which are the same no matter its use.
This is why it's being used off label now, doctors are well aware of the risks. Those will not change even if the application it's being put to does.
By recommending that everyone wear one, they are basically making the assumption that everyone is infected, and if everyone is infected, why are we bothering with masks?
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Boadicea
What alternatives?
Right now, there are none.