The truth about hydroxychloroquine(HCQ) and COVID19

While the media is desperate for Americans to keep dying so Democrat governors can continue to keep the country locked down and create a new Depression, about the only thing that might let Joe Biden win in November the reality is that we're making big strides at dealing with the China virus.

When Trump announced he was taking HCQ under a doctors supervision the #FakeNews media erupted with anger and condemnation.

But the simple fact is that HCQ is already being taken by many patients to treat malaria. Further the efficacy of HCQ and chloroquine(CQ) as anti viral agents has been under investigation since 2003.

Clearly if HCQ was as dangerous and the #FakeNews media is trying to make it out to be people wouldn't be using in on a regular basis to fight malaria.

Further it turns out that HCQ combined with zinc tend to limit the ability viruses to enter into cells, which they need to do to reproduce. That means that we have a logical mechanism which explains why HCQ could work against the China virus.

Multiple peer reviewed studies published between January and April of 2020 show that the drug does help treat and prevent the China virus.

As of late April the the Association ofAmerican Physicians and Surgeons reported that of the 2,333 people treated with HCQ--sometimes with zinc and/or azithromycin-- 91.6% improved clinically.

Turkey and India are giving medical workers and people who have contacted those with the China virus HCQ before they develop symptoms.  Interestingly the per capita rate of COVID19 infections in the US, where the FDA has recommended that HCQ not be used that way, are 5 times higher than the rate in Turkey and 278 times higher than the rate in India.

Morocco and Algeria saw a sharp reduction in the fatality rate once they began using HCQ.

Now further analysis on larger test populations might show that HCQ isn't the magic bullet that stops the China virus but clearly it's safe, since it's been used to fight malaria, and it seems that we have a strong basis for thinking it does work at some level.