POKE FAN said:
Not trying to turn this thread into a political one, but a lot of people (including me) are sick of the fear porn and propaganda concerning this Covid nonsense. I hate seeing sports fans down about this issue. Here are a couple of video clips from a press conference held today with American physicians. Listen to what the Houston doctor says in the first clip. President Trump pushed HCQ on social media months ago, but the topic was demonized by the criminal fake news media, among others. HCQ/zinc has been safely used for 45-50+ years in the American military.
There is also a Japanese drug called XOFLUZA that may have the potential to knock this virus out in less than 24 hours. It has been available in the U.S. since 2018. There are other cheap therapeutics, relatively speaking, that will/should work. This includes one I've taken off-and-on for months (as a preventive measure), but it was also demonized. Total BS.......
The second clip is the full press conference (very informative). Enough is enough. HCQ + Zinc (OVER THE COUNTER)
Play ball!
(Save the TDS comments.)
[Mod edit: Not gonna allow this widely discredited video on here, sorry]
Breitbart is conspiracy theory crap. HCQ has been PROVEN ineffective vs Covid. Here's a press release from a large British study on the topic:
https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/hcq-recovery-statement-050620-final-002.pdf
"‘A total of 1542 patients were randomised to hydroxychloroquine and compared with 3132
patients randomised to usual care alone. There was no significant difference in the primary
endpoint of 28-day mortality (25.7% hydroxychloroquine vs. 23.5% usual care; hazard ratio 1.11
[95% confidence interval 0.98-1.26]; p=0.10). There was also no evidence of beneficial effects on
hospital stay duration or other outcomes.
‘These data convincingly rule out any meaningful mortality benefit of hydroxychloroquine in
patients hospitalised with COVID-19. Full results will be made available as soon as possible."
and one from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2016638
And a Spanish one also showing the same:
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1009/5872589
All these are easily repeatable and randomized with control groups. This is different from Breitbart - a company with an agenda similar to CNN's, but even further away from facts and science: they want emotion. There are over a million doctors in the United States, and you can easily find one or two to say whatever you want them to. That's why it's important to fall back on REPEATABLE scientific studies with clear statistical analysis.
Not going to say anything about Zinc, because Zinc has a lot of health benefits in general, and I haven't seen any particular studies on it.