Doctors and pharmacists from more than half a dozen large healthcare systems in New York, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Washington and California told Reuters they are routinely using hydroxychloroquine on patients hospitalized with COVID-19. At the same time, several said they have seen no evidence that the drug, used for years to treat malaria and autoimmune disorders, has any effect on the virus.
Potential side effects of hydroxychloroquine include vision loss and heart problems. But doctors interviewed by Reuters say they are comfortable prescribing the drug for a short course of several days for coronavirus patients because the risks are relatively low and the therapies are inexpensive and generally available.
Since early March, the 44-year-old New Yorker has chronicled his near-fatal infection with coronavirus in social media posts followed by thousands of people. Lat’s case has resonated with a U.S. audience that has begun to recognize the risk that coronavirus poses not only to elderly patients with serious medical conditions, but also to generally healthy younger adults.
Despite such encouraging reports, hard evidence that any of the therapies now under study will work is weeks and possibly months way. In late March, the Department of Health and Human Services accepted donations of millions of doses of the drugs from manufacturers Novartis AG and Bayer AG. “President Trump is taking every possible step to protect Americans from the coronavirus and provide them with hope,” HHS Secretary Alex Azar said in announcing delivery of the doses to the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile, which houses medical and other supplies needed to address pandemics or biological threats.
“We have not taken a stance, nor are we, on whether doctors should prescribe it,” FDA Commissioner Dr Stephen Hahn told Fox News last week. “We’re providing facts and information about the risks and benefits, but that really is and should be a doctor-patient decision.” Several U.S. states and health insurers are taking steps to limit prescriptions, while Trump issued an executive order on March 23 to keep Americans from hoarding or price gouging.While the antimalarial approach, and its vocal advocates, are dominating headlines, doctors are still hopeful that one or more of the other therapies being tested will begin to show success.
Others have focused on the potential of more advanced biologic medicines to quell the processes that put the body’s immune system into overdrive in severe COVID-19 cases.
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My goodness, can’t believe some doctors are treating their patients & writing Rx on Trump’s advice. This is getting beyond insane.
“Several”? How many feel it works? How many feel it doesn’t work? If it saves one person it is worth it. The Left is so sick.
Reuters forgot to ask the 'doctors and pharmacists' if hydroxychloroquine can treat oxygen starvation in the body irrespective of the cause 🤭
That’s because the main efficacy claim is for patients in the early stages of Covid-19, ie *before* they were hospitalised. As by the time patients were hospitalised too much damage had been done and it was too late for the drug to work.
The second statement is a lie, or denotes an obvious ignorance of the science behind hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and how it affects SARS-CoV-2 virus as in-vitro studies have clearly showed. HCQ prevents the virus from getting released into the cells.
Trump owns stock in the company
Meanwhile, my elderly mother who takes it for Sjogren’s Syndrome is unable to get her full prescription.
first a pharmacists cannot use a drug on patients--this medication can cause blindness--don't give big pharma a windfall with promotion of this drug
But every sale makes the Trump family more money!
Nobody is forced to take it.
I guess Trump would not fell embarrassed.
You have become a symbol of sadness in this time of crisis. If your are happy and hopeful pls don’t read their news
Oh good good, phew! DemocRATS PLEASE NEVER ASK DOCTORS TO GIVE YOU Hydroxychloroquine. Your media tells you not to. Don't ever use it. Leave it all for us deplorables. DarwinsLaw
Stop shilling for big pharma, all of your articles have been against this. If it works will you retract 100 articles?
(after being stabbed in the chest by tree branch from car wreck) Doctor: Just take some IBUPROFEN fer the swelling👍
Lol, so many pushing investment narrative. Y’all should really check your facts.
PinkPixySprite i know the medicine is not wise to take for prolonged periods.
Let's hope no one is pushing these drugs for a stocks and shares reason!
PinkPixySprite i wonder if the drug is making people THINK they are getting better when it's just their immune system fighting it (all the while trying to fight what this medicine might be doing to ones immune system) so you're almost working your body too hard possibly?
endless looping of articles? on a positive, your teams content forming is pretty good.
Truthfully I would give it a try
Wow.. what 'doctors' have you sourced your information from? Maybe you should ask some real doctors and then report some real news.
Whatever Germany is doing is working. Their mortality is impressively low compared to the number of cases they have. Are they giving oxygen earlier to ward off complications or is it the medication? Something is working!
Just making the rich richer. Got to luv fools 😂
Trump's 'pushing the drug', because one of his big pharma campaign donors owns the company that makes the drug. The more Trump advertises the drug, the more money this billionaire's company makes. Some doctors are stupid enough to buy off on it.
Megadoses of fucking vitamin C and propolis FFS!!! Nature people nature!!!
HCQ is the cure for Covid
Name them or it didnt happen.
NOT check out this french article. Causes too many heart issues.
You can prove it in the 👉death rate...🙏😎
Yes, I can feel those tax cuts trickling down now.
So much anecdotal evidence, we really do need some science on this.
I'm gunning on some Texas sharpshooter fallacies here. The HCQ supporters will count every recovery treated with HCQ as a hit to tout their own genius and claim every HCQ-treated COVID mortality as 'not every responds to treatment.' Humans just be that way.
This is insanity
Covid-19 So Strong...💪
...and it can have serious side effects.
fake news propaganda
Whether to prescribe hydroxychloroquine is a decision best left to doctors, not to creepy bureaucrats or creepy Trump-hating media such as Reuters.
That would be the last thing I would demand. Insane taking medical advice from any trump.
How bad must your Trump derangement syndrome be that you would bash a life saving drug that is clearly working just because you hate Trump. 🤦♂️
Seeing many doctors supporting it. Been around for 30 years. What's the alternative...death? 10% chance you survive a ventilator.
Ask your doctor for that drug if you want to get better. It’s that simple.
There are no tests to identify it yet, so how can you treat some, if you don't know if they have Covid CoronaVirusUpdate CoronaCrisisuk CoronavirusPandemic WHO
Your story is wrong! Hydroxychloroquin is approved. Leftys just don’t like it because it is positive news and Trumpmtalked about it. Issue a retraction asap.
Plenty of doctors are treating with it. I’m glad the American people are demanding it!
And buried way down in the article is that the FDA has given emergency approval for doctors to prescribe it.
Give it to them, let them perish from their ignorant blind belief in a fake president. It's called natural selection and we should not stand in the way. realdonaldtrump FakePresident PresidentBullshit potus GOP
I don't think therapeutics can treat this or any other virus over the LT effectively. Can treat complications as a result of the infection. We need vaccines to really build immunocompetent defenses so the virus is prevented from entering/mutating in our cells.
hydroxychloroquine was approved by the FDA for Covid19 on an emergency basis a few weeks ago. So the headline here is once again garbage news - you guys are a wire service not opinion!? It may or may not prove in clinicals, but in the real world some very positive successes.
Daniel Dae Kim would argue otherwise since it saved his life
The side effects are noteworthy
Lies
Stop your TDS. He clearly said “it might work, it might not.” There’s no downside when your alternative is death. Even if there are side effects, I’d rather die trying than to just do nothing.
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The drug clearly works to some extent. The data in total is very compelling to the point that it couldn’t be a statistical fluke. On top of that it is very safe based on decades of safe chronic use.
I wonder if he has invested in this drug
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