Writing this to put people’s minds at ease.
Hospitals are essentially all using treatment protocols including hydroxychloroquine, often with zinc and Zithromax or similar hopeful drugs.
In my regional hospital system, if you have hypoxia and covid, or a risk factor and covid, you are getting treated with these meds as the standard, unless there is a reason not to.
I have family who work in big name academic medical centers in other states also on the front lines. They are also using these meds. And we all hope it is making a difference.
So please rest easy, word has gotten out and hospitals and docs are embracing and not rejecting these therapies.
Hi!
I've read that our healthcare workers and first responders are offered HCQ for preventative use. I don't know if that's true and I'm fairly sure it's not universally true. For example NYC have 18,000 cops out sick with Wuflu, and I don't know how many dead.
I'd like to see all those workers offered it, and I expect enough would decline to have a sufficient control group. This should be done while collecting data so we can learn something about effectiveness in this application. At least one large study is planned in NY, but they haven't even started accepting applications yet.
No rush, Governor.
I'd like to see truck drivers as the next priority. They distribute stuff over a wide area on purpose, we really don't want them infected.
We had 9 million HCQ pills donated to the US some time back. I'm thinking anybody that's been on a preventative dose has a supply from then.
Standard preventative dose for malaria: 1 .5 g pill a week
Dr Zelenko is trying starting with 1 200 mg per day for 5 days, and also 1 for just 2 days. In both cases follow with 1 per week.
So if a person were given a packet of 15 the way they come, they could try the preventative use and if they got sick increase the dose. The most he gave anybody that was really sick in his latest trial was 14. End medication after 5 days.
Not just end the worry but end the crisis!