[ April 24, 2024 ]
Cue the Democrat media complex to ratchet up their war on this effective Trump-touted drug.
HCQ breakthrough: ICMR finds it’s effective in preventing coronavirus, expands its use
Three studies find that hydroxychloroquine reduces chances of contracting Covid, so ICMR allows more frontline workers to take it as a preventive drug.
By Himani Chandna Print, 22 May, 2020:
New Delhi: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the country’s apex body in the field, has found that consuming the drug hydroxychloroquine reduces the chances of getting infected with Covid-19.
Story continues below advertisementAs a result, ICMR released an advisory Friday to expand the usage of HCQ — an anti-malarial drug — as a preventive treatment against the novel coronavirus.
The conclusion has been drawn on the basis of three studies conducted by the ICMR.
The advisory suggests surveillance workers, paramilitary and police personnel, as well as medical staff working in non-Covid hospitals and blocks to start consuming the pill as “preventive therapy”.
ICMR had issued an advisory to begin using HCQ in March, but it had drawn criticism for lacking scientific evidence that the drug works against the novel coronavirus.
The studies
According to the advisory, the premier health body undertook investigation at three central government hospitals in New Delhi. While it did not reveal the names of the hospitals, it said the investigation indicates that “amongst healthcare workers involved in Covid-19 care, those on HCQ prophylaxis were less likely to develop SARS-CoV-2 infection, compared to those who were not on it”.
The advisory also states that the National Institute of Virology in Pune has found in laboratory testing that HCQ reduces the viral load.
The ICMR also analysed data collected previously, known as retrospective case-control analysis, and found “a significant” relationship between “the number of doses taken and frequency of occurrence of Covid-19 infection in symptomatic healthcare workers who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 infection”.
It further said “the benefit was less pronounced in healthcare workers caring for a general patient population”.
Another observational study was conducted among 334 healthcare workers at the country’s largest public hospital, New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). The 248 workers who took HCQ as preventive drug for an average of six weeks had lower incidence of the infection than those not taking the pill.
Which workers will use it now?
Based on the findings of the studies, the government has decided to administer the drug as a ‘prophylaxis’ or preventive therapy to asymptomatic healthcare workers working in non-Covid hospitals as well as non-Covid blocks of hospitals earmarked for Covid treatment.
Asymptomatic frontline workers, such as surveillance workers deployed in containment zones, as well as paramilitary and police personnel involved in Covid-related activities will be asked to pop HCQ pills.
Until now, only high-risk individuals, including asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in containment and treatment of Covid-19 patients, and asymptomatic household contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases, were being administered the drug. They will continue to consume the drug.
While the dosage will remain the same as before, eight weeks, the ICMR advisory suggests that it can be used beyond that period as well, but with close monitoring.
“With available evidence for its safety and beneficial effect as a prophylactic drug against SARS-CoV-2 during the earlier recommended 8 weeks period, the experts further recommended for its use beyond 8 weeks on weekly dosage with strict monitoring of clinical and ECG parameters, which would also ensure that the therapy is given under supervision,” it stated.
“In clinical practice, HCQ is commonly prescribed in a daily dose of 200mg to 400mg for treatment of diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus for prolonged treatment periods with good tolerance,” the advisory added.
Discontinue if ‘rare side effects’ are noted
The ICMR had earlier announced that some side effects, such as abdominal pain and nausea, have been observed in healthcare workers who were administered HCQ.
The anti-malaria drug is often blamed for triggering irregular heartbeat.
However, in the final results of the studies (HCQ prophylaxis among 1,323 healthcare workers), the ICMR found mild adverse effects such as nausea in 8.9 per cent workers, abdominal pain in 7.3 per cent, vomiting in 1.5 per cent, low blood sugar (hypoglycaemia) in 1.7 per cent and cardio-vascular effects in 1.9 per cent.
The advisory states the drug should be discontinued if it causes the “rare” side effects related to the heart, such as cardiomyopathy, a disease which makes it harder for heart to pump blood to the entire body, and heart-rate disorders.
The advisory mentions that HCQ, in rare cases, can cause visual disturbance, including “blurring of vision, which is usually self-limiting and improves on discontinuation of the drug”.
ICMR has clarified that “for the above cited reasons — heart and vision — the drug has to be given under strict medical supervision with an informed consent”.
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39 Comments
3 years ago
So President Trump taking it for a preventive is not bad???? I’m confused as whenever Trump says something the moronic libturds claim he’s lying and whenever he does something great for America they scream racist or some other phobia. I can’t wait for November to hit!
3 years ago
Reply to
patd
IN OTHER WORDS, TRUMP WAS RIGHT AND THEY HATE HE WAS RIGHT. Hating Trump is more important then saving lives.. its disgusting!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Don’t get too excited waiting for the Trump v Biden debate. Hillary waiting in the wings to “save” the Commiecrats and Emperor Xi has ordered his agents like Mickey Bloomberg, Soros, Steyer, Pritzker, Brin, Sucky, Dorsey, etc to spend whatever billions it takes to steal and buy the election. Sorry to pour cold water on your hopes an election will help. We’ll Be in civil war this time next year. Be forewarned, be prepared, and most importantly be locked and loaded. Its not going to be pretty.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
Canadian Bacon
DEMS are going for broke on this one. Much of their base is dumber than Biden if you can imgaine that. DEMS have always exploited the ignornat and vulnerable but this time, some are waking up….
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
” consuming the drug hydroxychloroquine reduces the chances of getting infected with Covid-19.”
Workers in companies that re-open can take Hydrochloroquine as an extra layer of prevention. making “re-opening safely’ even more possible.
Then sanitize with Ultraviolet light during off hours. Win Win.
3 years ago
Reply to
TD
And Summer with Day light savings adjustment means longer days of sunlight which kills the virus. WIN WIN WIN.
I just wanna win against this Dem Virus.
3 years ago
Reply to
TD
Um… daylight savings time doesn’t in any way increase the length of the total time the sun shines. The earth still rotates the same way. Time change has no effect on the amount of sunlight each day.
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
boohoo.. the biggest money they would have ever made and a windfall for big pharma taken away like that! hahahaha..
3 years ago
“AZT, one of the most toxic, expensive, and controversial drugs in the history of medicine”
https://www.spin.com/featured/aids-and-the-azt-scandal-spin-1989-feature-sins-of-omission/
3 years ago
Big problems when the nation of India has a more enlightened medical policy than just about any Western nation.
3 years ago
Hydroxychloroquine seems to work well against some of the variants of covid-19 virus, and does not work well on others.
3 years ago
This Doctor is one of the worlds leading experts on this. The secret is to dispense it at early onst. In the hospital is too late. Dr. Zelenko promises: Use of hydroxychloroquine with Zinc ‘will end coronavirus plague
3 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
Try telling that to the MSM. Other than the news machine which mocks this because Trump believes it, the Internet now shuts you done for not following Right Think – their Right Think. So much for listening to other views. When will We begin to be rounded up for “re-education camps” like in China and North Korea, or be publicly stoned or executed as in Islam?
3 years ago
Weird thing about lefties: The more this drug saves lives, the more the lefties will hate it. Yeah … the compassionate ones. Right ….
3 years ago
Reply to
Mdog1
Leftards desperately want the death toll to increase massively. I would not even be surprised if they are actively spreading the virus.
3 years ago
Tonight (May 22 on KIRO our Local News-CBS), the opening story was “that the use of HCQ has been found to be dangerous and could cause more deaths due to complications”. Reference of poor judgment was made to Trump using it. I LIVE IN WASHINGTON (home of Gates) WHERE GOV. INSLEE IS WORKING UNDER ORDERS TO SCARE EVERYONE AND KEEP US LOCKED DOWN WITH LIES.
Yesterday, a woman interviewed by a reporter said her husband’s death was added to the COVID mortality because he tested positive after he was admitted to the emergency room due to a head injury in an accidental fall.
PA fitness Gym (on national news for defying lock down orders) was just forced by the Gov and AG to close again because gyms fall in phase 2 which can’t be reached as long as more deaths are reported. FYI: I belong to that gym.
MUST PASS THIS ARTICLE AROUND TO EVERYONE.
3 years ago
Reply to
strangequark
I am chafing at Inslee’s slow walking any sort of reopening and the utmost dishonesty in the counts. There were 5 deaths from gunshots attributed to the virus as well. I can’t see how a gym, taking due care, would be more hazardous than the casinos on tribal lands. I know the tribes are sovereign but customers still come back to their own communities. If we don’t open up by June 1 I fear many won’t be able to hold on.
I’m sure you know about the fallacious IHME models and that this research org is funded by the Gates. Oh, and that Inslee’s DIL works for the Gates Foundation.
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriot077
Just talked to a neighbor today about exactly what you expressed re: the potential COVID spread in casinos. We live near Tulalip casino that is 1 mile away from PA Fitness which is 1 block from Lowe’s with a parking lot full of customers. The whole thing is being engineered to tank small businesses and destroy Trump’s one great achievement before Nov. Trump is the speed bump that has to be removed before the One World System can resume their goal of population control. That is: reduction of global population through medicine, science and abortion. Bill Senior was head of Planned Parenthood in its early days while the Gates Foundation sponsored vaccine research that has had intentional disastrous consequences on those who received those vaccinations in foreign countries.
3 years ago
Reply to
strangequark
It’s pretty obvious too that Inslee is choosing the win for political supporters, also. For instance, a few weeks ago Goodwill was able to resume accepting donations from our “corona infested” homes but my usual Salvation Army drop off station hasn’t been open for donations …. Although I suppose I should state that I am not entirely sure that is all on Inslee.
3 years ago
Reply to
Patriot077
Inslee is just one of the puppet politicians whose strings are attached to the wealthy global puppeteers. Three powerful billionaires in Seattle come to mind…. follow the money. Too many politicians and judges in our state have been bought and paid for and too many voters have drunk the Kool Aid. Sad! BTW: Kudos for donating to the Salvation Army…one of the great organizations that care about people not profit!
3 years ago
plenty O’ Darwin awards coming for libtards to NOT take the pill
3 years ago
plenty O’ Darwin awards coming for libtards to NOT take the pill
3 years ago
plenty O’ Darwin awards coming for libtards to NOT take the pill
3 years ago
One thing you can count on is Fauci, Cuomo, Biden, Hillary, Newsom, Witmer, Brix, De Blasio, and the rest of the Commiecrats have a stockpile of hydroquinone in their medicine cabinets.
3 years ago
These folks obviously haven’t read the Lancet article (a study with ! 14 888 patients in the treatment groups ! : quote “In summary, this multinational, observational, real-world study of patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation found that the use of a regimen containing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine (with or without a macrolide) was associated with no evidence of benefit, but instead was associated with an increase in the risk of ventricular arrhythmias and a greater hazard for in-hospital death with COVID-19. These findings suggest that these drug regimens should not be used outside of clinical trials and urgent confirmation from randomised clinical trials is needed.”
ref. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext
3 years ago
I spent a year in Vietnam, and every Tuesday, all half million men and women took this drug. Perhaps there is a problem taking it if you are older or with a heart condition, but for most people, it is safe and effective.
I visited my doctor 3 days ago. I am in a high risk category. I mentioned this drug, and he claims it is effective if given at the outset of the virus, but if you wait too long, the damage is done, and even if the patient lives, may have life-long problems stemming from the illness, not the drug.
3 years ago
You and Trump still hoping for a magical cure, I see.
3 years ago
No matter if the drug works, If Trump even mentions it, nobody should be allowed to take it.
3 years ago
Some ‘breakthrough’. Certain people have been touting this for months.
