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1/13 "Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the US in 1955. It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. In 2017, it was the 128th most commonly prescribed medication in the US, with more than five million prescriptions." A thread. #HCQW0RKS
The whole HCQ discussion is driven by alleged 'extremely dangerous' side effects, even though according to national guidelines for Lupus these side effects are basically negligible. Especially when used 5 days instead of 5 years https://www.lupus.org/resources/drug-spotlight-on-hydroxychloroquine
This highly credible source -Lupus Foundation of America-suggests that, at the dosage now proposed by doctors around the world promoting the use of Hydroxychloroquine for early treatment of COVID19, the Qt-prolonging effects leading to heartfailure DO NOT EXIST.
Of course if you swallow 10 pills at once, your heart will stop beating, but the same can be said for sleeping pills, painkillers, etc.
So why on earth is the medical establishment touting this hysterical and unfounded claim that at 400mg/day for 5 days (instead of 5 years) "it causes dangerous side effects"? Here's why. According to them there is only ONE way HCQ can work: through its anti-viral properties.
But the concentration of HCQ in the body necessary to get enough into the lungcells, would have to be considerably higher -6 times higher considering the 2400 mg firstday dose of the Recovery trial- than can be achieved by taking 400mg/day.
SO THE SIDE-EFFECTS OF HCQ WHICH ARE NOW WARNED AGAINST ARE THE ONES OCCURRING AT 6 TIMES THE DOSAGE AT WHICH HCQ IS NOW PRESCRIBED AGAINST COVID19 AROUND THE GLOBE, AS THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT CONSIDERS THIS "THE ONLY WAY HCQ CAN WORK"
"Despite widespread clinical use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis , lupus and other inflammatory rheumatic diseases, insights into the mechanism of action of these drugs are still emerging". Nature stated this in feb 2020: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-020-0372-x
It is virtually impossible that the medical establishment can now be absolutely certain of how a medicine -of which the exact workings after decades of research are still not entirely understood- interacts with a virus that only surfaced SIX MONTHS AGO.
If rheumatologists would have followed the same reasoning, they would have banned HCQ decades ago for not entirely understanding how it works, and for its side effects when patients would suddenly decide to swallow the entire box. (which no-one in their right mind would ever do)
I urge medical professionals combined in this 'anti-HCQ-coalition' to take a step back and acknowledge that there are blind spots in their knowledge, and that there has to be some unknown working principle behind the incredible number of positive reports with HCQ.
In other words, STOP PLAYING GOD. Do not deprive the general public of medicine which seems to work, even if you don't understand how. You simply won't be able to hide behind 'lack of proof'. As proof is everywhere if you're willing to open your eyes. http://c19study.com
