re: Alabama Board Coronavirus Thread

Funny how the HCQ issue came up again. I just got an email about a study published in the prestigious NEJM using HCQ and azithromycin on COVID patients. The study concluded no benefits to the HCQ and zithromax group. Then I read the comments. Out of 148 comments, by doctors, physicians assistants and nurse practitioners, the large majority all said the same things: the study was poorly designed, the meds were given after the patients were already too sick, the regimen wasn’t correct, and an interesting one, you need to include zinc. This same majority also commented that HCQ works when done properly and early. There was also a vocal minority that tried to politicize the debate and some that believe the studies of HCQ’s failure to be real. And this is in one of our oldest and most prestigious medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine.

Bottom line is the majority of practitioners (at least from what I see in the comments of this study) believe that HCQ along with azithromycin and zinc, given early and in the appropriate regimen, is an effective treatment against COVID19.