COVID patients given malaria drug didn't see significant improvements: studies

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Patients given the malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump as a potential treatment for COVID-19 did not improve significantly over those who did not, according to two new studies published in the medical journal BMJ on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: A nurse shows a Hydroxychloroquine pill, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, at Nossa Senhora da Conceicao hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Diego VaraIn a randomized, controlled trial of 150 patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 in China, researchers found that patients on hydroxychloroquine did not get better significantly faster than those not treated with the drug. Adverse events were also higher in patients receiving the malaria drug.

Demand for hydroxychloroquine surged after Trump touted it in early April, and U.S. regulators have since authorized its emergency use for coronavirus patients. The drug is still being widely studied in the United States and abroad as a potential COVID-19 treatment. The mid-stage study, for which Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd will be donating medicines, will assess whether the combination can prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19.

 

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Of course the biggest drug dealers in the world would promote this nonsense.

premasridevi

As Dr.Fauci said When is this administration going to listen to Dr. Fauci?!

This is a false and misleading report. Your claim that it doesn't generally work is deceptive.

It's the government mandated treatment protocol in Peru which is why Peru's recovery trend tracks in tandem with the infection trend. The death trend line has remained flat.

You people in the media keep repeating the reports from these two trials. But, you'll never cover the other numerous reports of HCQ benefits, especially, with it's full combo and given at appropriate stages in the disease. Try balancing your reports a little bit.

You dont say

It’s different to say “it’s a hoax” though, isn’t it?

If this is true how come SL has fewer deaths?

Does Reuters think that Viagra tablet will work on covid patients?

Again the hydroxy part being used by Western World's misleaders. Use the proper chloroquine. Why insist on using HYDROXYchloroquine as if it's the only chloroquine available on earth !

fakenews

zinc + bleach

Um, there are nursing homes in TX that can prove it does work. And doctors who have prescribed it correctly (key phrase: “prescribed correctly”).

Give it a rest... 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🇺🇸 IngrahamAngle

Have they tried bleach shots or enemas?

91-95% effective DR.FAUCI KNEW IT ....15 YEARS AGO Stop lying.

This is why you don't believe in any miracle cure until there's multiple studies to back it up

jairbolsonaro dá uma lida... TeichNelson, não se submeta a pressões políticas. O Juramento de Hipócrates é maior do que isso.

I know a local MD that would tell you BS.

As usual the story speaks of using only one drug not the 3 drug combined which is now standard protocol in many major hospitals across the world and from posts from doctors prescribed at least 10s of thousands of times with what are claimed almost 100% results.

New England Journal of Medicine said no indications Hydroxychlorquine and Zpack or Zink works and in some anecdotal cases caused heart infraction.

No duh !!!!

. has been allowed to remain in China, while the .nytimes .washingtonpost & WSJ were kicked out. Believe nothing from Reuters

🤭 And the ones on bleach?

Trump loves to get hopes up without any solid proof. ‘It will disappear by Easter’ ‘Someday it will be gone, poof’ ‘Hydroxychloroquine is a game changer’

Some died. Hydroxychloroquinegate.

FINALLY YOU ARE PUBLISHING THE SUCCESS OF INDIA COMBATNG COVID BETTER THAN ANY OTHER NATION. GIVEN THE DENSITY & COMPLEXITY OF INDIA, NO. OF DEATHS &INFECTIONS REMAINING AT CONTAINED LEVELS, EVEN FLATTENING IN SOME AREAS IS A RESULT OF OUR LEADERSHIP'S EARLY DECISION & RESOLVE.

Bull Sh1t more MSM fake news

Is this really a surprise, and reportable based on past historical reports?

Because malaria drug was found effective for malaria. Research on PH levels .

What even?!

in china

I am surprised reuters expected results in just 3 month of disclosure on COVID19 pandemic by China via WHO. Is it that bad in China with those 'low' confirmation and 'asyptomatic' cases. Afterall they reopened. What could possibly go wrong?

Bc it was meant for malaria

So they improved

Curious did they give it along with zinc which many Drs have found success?

Fake news! In combination with z-pac and zinc it works in 95% of the time! When the dose is to high it doesnt work. When people are more death then alive it doesnt work. You have to give it in the beginning not in the end! Thats the problem people! It Works people!!! Hcq zinc!

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