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Dr. Zelenko treated over 5,000 patients with it and it does work.

Is chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine useful in treating people with COVID-19, or in preventing infection in people who have been exposed to the virus?

COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. If the infection becomes severe, people may need intensive care and support in hospital, including mechanical ventilation.

Drugs used for other diseases were tried out in COVID-19, and this included chloroquine, used for malaria; and hydroxychloroquine used for rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus. The authors sought evidence of the effects of these drugs in treating people ill with the disease; in preventing the disease in people at risk of getting the disease, such as health workers; and people exposed to the virus developing the disease.

Key messages

Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce deaths from COVID-19, and probably does not reduce the number of people needing mechanical ventilation.
Hydroxychloroquine caused more unwanted effects than a placebo treatment, though it did not appear to increase the number of serious unwanted effects.
The authors do not think new studies of hydroxychloroquine should be started for treatment of COVID-19.

https://www.cochrane.org/news/chloroquine-or-hydroxychloroquine-useful-treating-people-covid-19-or-preventing-infection

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

It is not snake oil. HCQ was often effective against covid and certainly more effective than the respirators that were being pushed at the time. Ivermectin is even more effective. However as doctors who treated the illness point out that there are lots of arrows in the quiver that go into having a good outcome. HCQ and Ivermectin were just two of them. Sadly the real killers are the vaxes and no one is going to jail for pushing them....

TexChik · F

It does work. As does Ivermectin. You only need go to India to find that out. The vax doesnt prevent people from getting sick, in fact they get sicker after taking it. Its morbidity and mortality scale is yet to be determined since the people are the guinea pigs for it.

ElwoodBlues · M

The only acceptable way to test a drug is by randomized double blind placebo controlled study.

Nov 2020: Randomized double blind placebo controlled study shows HCQ (hydroxychloroquin) does nothing for Covid-19 with or without AZ (azithromycin)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30389-8/fulltext
Also see https://wtop.com/national/2020/06/malaria-drug-fails-to-prevent-covid-19-in-a-rigorous-study/

But we had strong evidence against HCQ by the end of May 2020.
A MUCH BIGGER retrospective study (96,000) was done by the US Veterans Admin https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/500021-va-hospitals-drop-hydroxychloroquine-as-coronavirus-treatment

VA has almost completely stopped prescribing an anti-malaria drug touted by President Trump to veterans with COVID-19 after studies questioned its efficacy in treating the disease.

Since we're on the subject, what of ivermectin? Here's a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, adaptive platform trial involving 3515 symptomatic SARS-CoV-2–positive adults recruited from 12 public health clinics in Brazil.

Conclusions
Treatment with ivermectin did not result in a lower incidence of medical admission to a hospital due to progression of Covid-19 or of prolonged emergency department observation among outpatients with an early diagnosis of Covid-19.