Hydoxychlorquinine does not appear to be an answer:

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A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus.

Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight

One of the patients treated with the drug in the early French study died.

 

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A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus.

Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight

How would she know? Seriously, she is not an expert. People recover from illnesses quite often and give the credit to the wrong source. As has been repeated countless times here we really cannot tell without proper medical trials. I would love to see a cure, but the wrong medicine applied to a disease like this can easily do more harm than good. It is not a drug free of side effects and there are doctors that have warned strongly about the potential effects on the heart for just one example.

Do we want a cure? Yes, we all do. But investing too early in an unproved medicine is almost certainly not the answer.

 

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One of the patients treated with the drug in the early French study died.

Careful, now you are likely to be accused of doing what the people blindly advocating for HCQ are doing. I know that was not your point, but these sort of posts often sail over their heads.

 

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One of the patients treated with the drug in the early French study died.

That doesnt mean its not helping other people.

 

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How would she know? Seriously, she is not an expert. People recover from illnesses quite often and give the credit to the wrong source. As has been repeated countless times here we really cannot tell without proper medical trials. I would love to see a cure, but the wrong medicine applied to a disease like this can easily do more harm than good. It is not a drug free of side effects and there are doctors that have warned strongly about the potential effects on the heart for just one example.

Do we want a cure? Yes, we all do. But investing too early in an unproved medicine is almost certainly not the answer.

Because Trump talks about it, it must be bad. Orange man bad.

 

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Because Trump talks about it, it must be bad. Orange man bad.

One person's anecdote, not corroborated by a medical professional, is not evidence though.

From the article:
"State Rep. Karen Whitsett, who learned Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19, said she started taking hydroxychloroquine on March 31, prescribed by her doctor, after both she and her husband sought treatment for a range of symptoms on March 18.

"It was less than two hours" before she started to feel relief, said Whitsett, who had experienced shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, and what felt like a sinus infection. She is still experiencing headaches, she said."

She states she already had symptoms for two weeks prior to starting hydroxychloroquine. Her timing with the drug and her recovery may also be coincidental but we only have her word that her relief was sudden and in conjunction with taking the drug.

 

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Because Trump talks about it, it must be bad. Orange man bad.

No, because any ignorant person that endorses a drug without any reliable evidence supporting it is bad.

Though you do confirm that Trump is bad. We might be getting somewhere.

 

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One person's anecdote, not corroborated by a medical professional, is not evidence though.

From the article:
"State Rep. Karen Whitsett, who learned Monday she has tested positive for COVID-19, said she started taking hydroxychloroquine on March 31, prescribed by her doctor, after both she and her husband sought treatment for a range of symptoms on March 18.

"It was less than two hours" before she started to feel relief, said Whitsett, who had experienced shortness of breath, swollen lymph nodes, and what felt like a sinus infection. She is still experiencing headaches, she said."

She states she already had symptoms for two weeks prior to starting hydroxychloroquine. Her timing with the drug and her recovery may also be coincidental but we only have her word that her relief was sudden and in conjunction with taking the drug.

And that happens quite often with diseases that people tend to recover from. It is a case of correlation not necessarily being causation. Real studies need to be done. Or you could provide evidence of how the drug works.

 

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No, because any ignorant person that endorses a drug without any reliable evidence supporting it is bad.

Though you do confirm that Trump is bad. We might be getting somewhere.

What does Trump base his hope that it will work on?

 

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“Effective therapies for COVID-19 are urgently needed,” said James P. Kiley, director, Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI. “Hydroxychloroquine has showed promise in a lab setting against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 and preliminary reports suggest potential efficacy in small studies with patients. However, we really need clinical trial data to determine whether hydroxychloroquine is effective and safe in treating COVID-19.”

Hydroxychloroquine is used to treat malaria and rheumatoid conditions such as arthritis. In various studies, the drug has demonstrated antiviral activity, an ability to modify the activity of the immune system, and has an established safety profile at appropriate doses, leading to the hypothesis that it may also be useful in the treatment of COVID-19. The drug is not without risks as even short term use can cause cardiac arrythmias, seizures, dermatological reactions, and hypoglycemia.

NIH clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine, a potential therapy for COVID-19, begins

 

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What does Trump base his hope that it will work on?

Anecdotal evidence and uncontrolled studies, some of which have major flaws.

 

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Of course it's all about the science

Again, my post said nothing about the science one way or the other. It addressed a dishonest debating tactic used to try and turn the discussion away from the content of various posts and towards some made-up failings of the people discussing it.
Your interpretation of the science could be 100% correct. It still doesn't change the fact that the post I quoted attempted to use a personal attack to derail a discussion of that science.
I mean I don't know why your post would do such a thing if you had anything of substance to back up your assertions, but I guess anything's possible.

 

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A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus.

Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight

And we all know that every opinion democratic elected officials hold is 100% correct.

 

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Anecdotal evidence and uncontrolled studies, some of which have major flaws.

According to James P. Kiley, director, Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI. “Hydroxychloroquine has showed promise in a lab setting against SARS-CoV-2"

 

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According to James P. Kiley, director, Division of Lung Diseases, NHLBI. “Hydroxychloroquine has showed promise in a lab setting against SARS-CoV-2"

By all means, let's have some controlled studies. Because otherwise, all we have is 'promise'.

 

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By all means, let's have some controlled studies. Because otherwise, all we have is 'promise'.

Are doctors in the US prescribing this drug for Covid-19? If so then tell them that.

 

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What does Trump base his hope that it will work on?

I do not think that it is because he has some money invested in the company that makes the pills. That is a coincidence. But when it comes to the sciences Trump is amazingly ignorant. He does not know what a valid test is and what is not. He like many of the posters here that lack such an education are grasping at straws.

Ironically focusing on the wrong medicine could slow down production of the right one and harm those that actually need this drug.

 

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I do not think that it is because he has some money invested in the company that makes the pills. That is a coincidence. But when it comes to the sciences Trump is amazingly ignorant. He does not know what a valid test is and what is not. He like many of the posters here that lack such an education are grasping at straws.

Ironically focusing on the wrong medicine could slow down production of the right one and harm those that actually need this drug.

But you got to blame doctors for such a scenario. They are the ones who would prescribe the drug.

 

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Are doctors in the US prescribing this drug for Covid-19? If so then tell them that.

I'm sure most of them know there is no evidence from randomized controlled trials that show this drug is effective and safe.

 

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I'm sure most of them know there is no evidence from randomized controlled trials that show this drug is effective and safe.

You dont actually know anything. Speculating perhaps. Do you think the FDA and CDC has the same concerns when it comes to non CDC Covid-19 test kits?