There is some evidence that hydroxychloroquine may be better as a prophylactic. Here's medcram talking about it from in vitro results https://youtu.be/vE4_LsftNKM?t=192
Re real patients I thought this interesting on lupus patients using hydroxychloroquine at a hospital in Wuhan:
>In the early stage of the study group, through the clinical analysis of 178 patients with new coronavirus received by the hospital from December 2019, it was found that none of them was systemic lupus erythematosus. After that, in the consultation of 80 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus treated by dermatology department of the hospital, it was found that they were not infected with new coronavirus pneumonia. https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...
Which suggests it may work in real life. Lupus patient get a pretty high dose but looking at the in vitro stuff it looks like a low dose say 400mg/wk might work.
There may be a possibility here to save millions of lives - if this does go full pandemic with 60% global infection, taking say weekly hydroxychloroquine might reduce the effects to something mild flu rather than ICU death. It seems to me enough upside to make it worth doing a serious research effort which I don't think is being done.
My wife was tested yesterday - she has fever sympthoms. The first thing I did was down 500mg of Chloroquine. I am in an at-risk group. Then i took the kids to our country house. Fingers crossed for her today. 36 hrs after she came home from work with a fever i am still fever free.
There is some info here from a doctor https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/fbfj0r/covid19_pr...
There is some evidence that hydroxychloroquine may be better as a prophylactic. Here's medcram talking about it from in vitro results https://youtu.be/vE4_LsftNKM?t=192
Re real patients I thought this interesting on lupus patients using hydroxychloroquine at a hospital in Wuhan:
>In the early stage of the study group, through the clinical analysis of 178 patients with new coronavirus received by the hospital from December 2019, it was found that none of them was systemic lupus erythematosus. After that, in the consultation of 80 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus treated by dermatology department of the hospital, it was found that they were not infected with new coronavirus pneumonia. https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn...
Which suggests it may work in real life. Lupus patient get a pretty high dose but looking at the in vitro stuff it looks like a low dose say 400mg/wk might work.
There may be a possibility here to save millions of lives - if this does go full pandemic with 60% global infection, taking say weekly hydroxychloroquine might reduce the effects to something mild flu rather than ICU death. It seems to me enough upside to make it worth doing a serious research effort which I don't think is being done.