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Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
What is not mentioned, is the Gates/Soros/Chinese drug Remdecivir, being forced on Americans, instead of HCQ. Gates drug failed at treating Ebola, and is VERY expensive, and has way less success in treating Covid. At the same time, much success has been seen with EARLY treatment with 50+ year old HCQ+Zinc, and antibiotic. It is actually the Zinc that stops virus from reproducing. HCQ allows Zinc to post up in cells, BEFORE virus attacks. I’m not a doctor, but I ain’t blind yet. HCQ is cheap, would be cheaper, had not a major manufacturer in Canada, who had applied for patent on NEW PROCESS FOR CHEAPER, and purer HCQ, was brutally murdered with his wife, at the same time Fauci predicted surprise pandemic. This has been the ONLY THING FAUCI HAS SAID about the pandemic, that turned out to be correct. 2 other scientists working on treating Corona have been murdered. You people need to open your eyes to lies, and accept facts that you don’t like. Follow the money, and criminals trying to stay out of jail.
You guys in India cannot put your faith in 1 questionable study by the ICMR and put all frontline workers on HCQ prophylaxis.There are many more similar studies from all over the world,showing that HCQ is of no benefit as prophylaxis….and these studies are randomised double blind trails. At present we have no Prophylaxis, and no specific treatment for Covid19.
There is no need to panic. We know that 80% of infected people will cope with the virus adequately and 2% will die.
Your best bet and Prophylaxis against this virus is YOUR BEHAVIOUR….wearing a mask, sanitizing REGULARLY( apparently 10 x per day), social distancing and good general hygiene
Another self-proclaimed “Dr” in this comments section who did not read the ICMR advisory.
The advisory was not based on “1” study. The article also mentions “the conclusion has been drawn on the basis of three studies conducted by the ICMR.”
Apart from improving your reading skills, it would be great if you could avoid using a condescending tone when referring to Indians in India (“You guys in India”). You might have moved out of India or may have been born in a different country, but that does not make you superior in any way.
Here we go again. Another “Dr” in this comments section who needs improve his reading skills. ICMR advisory is for prophylactic use, whereas the pessimistic studies being cited are in regard to possibility of curative use. Big difference. ICMR isn’t claiming it to be a cure for those who are already infected badly. No cure has been found yet. Such patients will need much more specialized treatment.
Good writing and article, Himani Chandna ji. It would help and be appropriate if you can please link to the original source document from ICMR directly in your article.
ICMR has made it very clear that HCQ is offered only to frontline medical and other staff dealing with covid patients. This means it is only for people at very high risk for being infected by covid. Also, ICMR has not said that it is a proven preventive medication but that it may be one. ICMR has made it clear that it has adverse reactions involving heart and vision. Hence from a risk to benefit analysis it is to be taken under medical supervision only by the persons specified, not by the population at large.
If is good gained through practical knowlege through observations in preventing coronavirous so let the people know about this drug as soon as possible to reduce the tensions of the people of India as well as other nations of the world.Thank you all the ICMR and the Indian Institute Virology in Pune for conducting through laboratory testing HCQ reduces the viral load.
Vaidyah and Hari Sud’s views are having reason and appreciated.ICMR has to suggest loading dose for covid19 for public use.Asper various opinions of experts,HCQ with Zinc supplement gives best results in reducing viral load if taken initial stage than later stage.
India will have capacity & exalted status to contribute positively towards Global Goals of humanitarian nature … today, tomorrow & the time to come; no matter how serious the issue is.
India will have capacity & exalted status to contribute positively towards Global Goals of humanitarian nature … today, tomorrow & the time to come; no matter how serious the issue is.
Should read the article published in lancet. which is real scientific analysis.people seem to love Mr Trump because .he gave us lot of business to our pharmaceutical companies
people should. also read what happened in brezil with its use with lot of adverse effects.
It is cheap talk to criticise and misquote Dr Fauci .He is a great scientist and served at CDC under several presidents. He said it’s use is only anecdotal and was not born out of scientific studies.Inspite of this almost all Americans are taking the drug .I do not blame them.And look at the number of cases and deaths in U S In spite of it.
Science is science .quackery is not the same as scientific thought .
The anecdotal is based on years of experience scientific confusion is created by mercenaries and doctors whose decision making is deliberately blurred
Perhaps VR Krishna should improve his reading skills. ICMR advisory is for prophylactic use, whereas the pessimistic studies being cited are in regard to possibility of curative use. Big difference. ICMR isn’t claiming it to be a cure for those who are already infected badly. No cure has been found yet. Such patients will need much more specialized treatment.
You’re a bit crazy if you think all Americans are taking this drug we are not, it’s a laughing joke.
We do have a ilk of hillbillies who might take it, but it’s a low percentage, and frankly darwinism is a good thing, thins the herd of Dunning–Kruger effect people. These people usually don’t have healthcare, like chiropractors, low income, education, and function mentally at the third grade level.
You do understand we have rich Republicans with big stock portfolios in the pharmaceutical, funeral, cemetery business, industry?
Yes our locally on funeral industries get bought up by corporations: conglomerate, even the cemeteries, this allows them to control prices, that’s why I can’t even bury the United States will run you between $8,000 to $10,000 US dollars. Same thing is true veterinarian care, it’s not locally own, prices extremely high, Christian Republicans don’t miss a trick.
This has been going on in the last 20-30 years.
But I digress off on a tangent, let’s get back to medicine, healthcare, and death in the US.
With 100,000 US deaths they should be making good money, my estimates are within 2.5 months we’re going to see 160,000 more dead Americans, then an exponential growth to 1.5 million by end of the year of hell and fury, doing exactly what Trump inquired about “ can’t we just let it was over the US?”.
($10,000 dollars per burial times 1,500,000 deaths), the money just keeps following to the top 1 percent. They get you with fake proactive preventative medicine, then when you die. There’s a funeral home that had to buy, sight unseen, used old train reefers cars, basically old refrigerator train cars, to house the bodies, until ground funerals could be performed.
Looks, like global warming, it’s very difficult to convince someone something is bad when you wealth, power, lifestyle, entitlements depends conveniently on you not understanding it. That is the Christian rich republican party, there is no line they won’t “cross”, no pun intended.
Look with an average one person infects 3 to 4 over a 14 day window you do the math.
I believe China had a 2.4+ infection rate, 1.4 world average?
So let’s look at a 2.0 average, sounds good, buy yourself 100 pieces of candy, and you poison two of them, put them in a bag, shake them, now eat a piece.
I would rather take my chances with the candy vs Dotard Don the Con Corona Trump’s advise.
With utmost respect for Dr.Pani’s expertise, I would like to state that let ICMR come out with the dosage and let the govt make arrangements for availability of HCQ freely till the best alternative is invented. Exceptional situation needs un conventional solution. No time for peer review.The doctors who didn’t took the HCQ must have refused to take part in the study.We can’t blame the ICMR and the study can’t be just ignored.
Slap on the face of the International Pharma cartel. Cartel wanted costly & patented medicine to be the ultimate treatment for Covid. Kudos to Trump standing against the cartel and bearing all the trolls by the collies and ignorant. Appreciate ICMR for the thought process and wading off the pressure from corporate goondas. Today’s world the actual medicine and stuff counts 50% & rest on the cross currents due to the Power and Technology supermacy.
It’s over the counter in Iran and many South American countries – like aspirin
1. No peer review of studies done
2. There was no surety of doctors included in the study had actilually taken the hydroxychloroquine tablet. The dosing was not supervised. ( many of my friends told they had tablets bt didn’t take it)
3. There was nothing to associate the blood levels of hydroxychloroquine to events of covid among doctors. There was no blood test at all.
3. Its just prospective study without any randomisation. Why can’t i say the doctors who took HCQ saved themselves because of their immunity.
You should counsel your friends who lied, and .. do you get cuts from the drug cartel ?
You should counsel your friends who lied, and .. do you get cuts from the drg cartl ?
Thank you for being the ONLY voice of reason in these comments!
This “Dr” is bluffing. The ICMR advisory is based on inputs from multiple reputed sources and based on multiple studies. Please read the advisory from ICMR:
This is contradictory statement as per who press conference yesterday. Hcq is not yet proven but can only be taken in strict medical supervision and it can be fatal and cause cardiac abnormalities.
Please find genuine studies and fight the fake news as per world health organization.
If it’s proven, kindly provide the source of study and the study link along with.
I suppose doctors already been prescribing hydrochloquine tablets as preventive measure for COVID, need ICMR SIT OVER AND Advise like police entering last in films to arrest villian when Hero had done the job…
“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,”
India should quickly notify the appropriate dosage at which normal people can take HCQ as a preventative (i.e., prophylactic) against Covid-19, manufacture HCQ tablets in that exact dosage, and make it widely and easily available.
The normal population is exposed to a lower virus load than those working on the front lines (medical, police, etc.). Hence, the appropriate dosage might be lower for the normal population, for use as a preventative.
Making it widely and easily available at an appropriate dosage will save many lives, not just as a preventative against Covid-19 but also as a mechanism to reduce the severe anxiety among many people that is leading to widespread mental health problems.
In Dr. Fauci you find a low level of unknown scientist Suddenly thrust into prominence and have been against HCQ. He is one who authored the report at John Hopkins, later withdrawn which forecast 2 million Indians dead. In-spite these fallacies President Trump has kept him as an advisor. Epidimology Is not great science to attract top talent. He is average. He is the one who opposed use of HCQ completely under flimsy test data. In India alone 20 million use HCQ to save themselves from Malaria. There are no listed side affects not more than other drugs. It is Dr. Fauci who spread a bad word about HCQ, in order to give American drugs a chance to succeed. None succeeded as good as HCQ and as cheap as HCQ. Now this is the only cheap drug which gives everybody including President Trump a fighting chance to survive.
Mr. Hari Sud in the comments section is probably correct about Dr. Fauci.
Dr Fauci is a well known, reputed doctor and infectious disease specialist whereas Trump is a fool and knows nothing about science or pharmacology. I agree with Dr Sunil that the study conducted by ICMR is flawed in many aspects especially since now there is an article in The Lancet on a study showing higher mortality risk in patients who took HCQ.
Well, at least Dr. Fauci is a real person. Not so sure about “Dr. Sunil …” and “Dr. Anand Singh Brar”
ICMR advisory is for prophylactic use, whereas the negative studies being cited are in regard to possibility of curative use. Big difference. ICMR is not claiming it to be a cure for those who are already infected badly. No cure has been found yet. Such patients will need much more specialized treatment.
The ICMR advisory is detailed, based on inputs from multiple reputed sources, and based on multiple studies.
What is not mentioned, is the Gates/Soros/Chinese drug Remdecivir, being forced on Americans, instead of HCQ. Gates drug failed at treating Ebola, and is VERY expensive, and has way less success in treating Covid. At the same time, much success has been seen with EARLY treatment with 50+ year old HCQ+Zinc, and antibiotic. It is actually the Zinc that stops virus from reproducing. HCQ allows Zinc to post up in cells, BEFORE virus attacks. I’m not a doctor, but I ain’t blind yet. HCQ is cheap, would be cheaper, had not a major manufacturer in Canada, who had applied for patent on NEW PROCESS FOR CHEAPER, and purer HCQ, was brutally murdered with his wife, at the same time Fauci predicted surprise pandemic. This has been the ONLY THING FAUCI HAS SAID about the pandemic, that turned out to be correct. 2 other scientists working on treating Corona have been murdered. You people need to open your eyes to lies, and accept facts that you don’t like. Follow the money, and criminals trying to stay out of jail.
You guys in India cannot put your faith in 1 questionable study by the ICMR and put all frontline workers on HCQ prophylaxis.There are many more similar studies from all over the world,showing that HCQ is of no benefit as prophylaxis….and these studies are randomised double blind trails. At present we have no Prophylaxis, and no specific treatment for Covid19.
There is no need to panic. We know that 80% of infected people will cope with the virus adequately and 2% will die.
Your best bet and Prophylaxis against this virus is YOUR BEHAVIOUR….wearing a mask, sanitizing REGULARLY( apparently 10 x per day), social distancing and good general hygiene
Another self-proclaimed “Dr” in this comments section who did not read the ICMR advisory.
The advisory was not based on “1” study. The article also mentions “the conclusion has been drawn on the basis of three studies conducted by the ICMR.”
Apart from improving your reading skills, it would be great if you could avoid using a condescending tone when referring to Indians in India (“You guys in India”). You might have moved out of India or may have been born in a different country, but that does not make you superior in any way.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/anti-malaria-drug-fails-another-test-as-a-covid-19-treatment-says-study/story-IadOtW6iRHIf7LMCA6AvSN.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/07/hydroxychloroquine-fails-to-help-hospitalized-coronavirus-patients-in-us-government-funded-study.html
Is this all about “Dr K Srinath Reddy, president, Public Health Foundation of India” VS “ICMR”
or
Politics to sell HQC by pharma Companies ?
Here we go again. Another “Dr” in this comments section who needs improve his reading skills. ICMR advisory is for prophylactic use, whereas the pessimistic studies being cited are in regard to possibility of curative use. Big difference. ICMR isn’t claiming it to be a cure for those who are already infected badly. No cure has been found yet. Such patients will need much more specialized treatment.
The ICMR advisory:
https://main.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
Good writing and article, Himani Chandna ji. It would help and be appropriate if you can please link to the original source document from ICMR directly in your article.
https://main.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
Broken link.
Posted here many times!
ICMR should test Ganga water next.
Why, are u scientist, that u are suggesting it??
Yes.
Ganga water supplied by maulavi.
Why do you have so much problem with Ganga water.
ICMR has made it very clear that HCQ is offered only to frontline medical and other staff dealing with covid patients. This means it is only for people at very high risk for being infected by covid. Also, ICMR has not said that it is a proven preventive medication but that it may be one. ICMR has made it clear that it has adverse reactions involving heart and vision. Hence from a risk to benefit analysis it is to be taken under medical supervision only by the persons specified, not by the population at large.
If is good gained through practical knowlege through observations in preventing coronavirous so let the people know about this drug as soon as possible to reduce the tensions of the people of India as well as other nations of the world.Thank you all the ICMR and the Indian Institute Virology in Pune for conducting through laboratory testing HCQ reduces the viral load.
Vaidyah and Hari Sud’s views are having reason and appreciated.ICMR has to suggest loading dose for covid19 for public use.Asper various opinions of experts,HCQ with Zinc supplement gives best results in reducing viral load if taken initial stage than later stage.
India will have capacity & exalted status to contribute positively towards Global Goals of humanitarian nature … today, tomorrow & the time to come; no matter how serious the issue is.
India will have capacity & exalted status to contribute positively towards Global Goals of humanitarian nature … today, tomorrow & the time to come; no matter how serious the issue is.
It is India’s Destiny – to support for Global, humanitarian solutions … today & tomorrow;n matter how serious the issue is.
trump is going to love this story.
The Lancet just put out a study with a large sample size about how people taking HCQ are in fact more likely to die.
Should read the article published in lancet. which is real scientific analysis.people seem to love Mr Trump because .he gave us lot of business to our pharmaceutical companies
people should. also read what happened in brezil with its use with lot of adverse effects.
It is cheap talk to criticise and misquote Dr Fauci .He is a great scientist and served at CDC under several presidents. He said it’s use is only anecdotal and was not born out of scientific studies.Inspite of this almost all Americans are taking the drug .I do not blame them.And look at the number of cases and deaths in U S In spite of it.
Science is science .quackery is not the same as scientific thought .
The anecdotal is based on years of experience scientific confusion is created by mercenaries and doctors whose decision making is deliberately blurred
Perhaps VR Krishna should improve his reading skills. ICMR advisory is for prophylactic use, whereas the pessimistic studies being cited are in regard to possibility of curative use. Big difference. ICMR isn’t claiming it to be a cure for those who are already infected badly. No cure has been found yet. Such patients will need much more specialized treatment.
The ICMR advisory:
https://main.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
You’re a bit crazy if you think all Americans are taking this drug we are not, it’s a laughing joke.
We do have a ilk of hillbillies who might take it, but it’s a low percentage, and frankly darwinism is a good thing, thins the herd of Dunning–Kruger effect people. These people usually don’t have healthcare, like chiropractors, low income, education, and function mentally at the third grade level.
You do understand we have rich Republicans with big stock portfolios in the pharmaceutical, funeral, cemetery business, industry?
Yes our locally on funeral industries get bought up by corporations: conglomerate, even the cemeteries, this allows them to control prices, that’s why I can’t even bury the United States will run you between $8,000 to $10,000 US dollars. Same thing is true veterinarian care, it’s not locally own, prices extremely high, Christian Republicans don’t miss a trick.
This has been going on in the last 20-30 years.
But I digress off on a tangent, let’s get back to medicine, healthcare, and death in the US.
With 100,000 US deaths they should be making good money, my estimates are within 2.5 months we’re going to see 160,000 more dead Americans, then an exponential growth to 1.5 million by end of the year of hell and fury, doing exactly what Trump inquired about “ can’t we just let it was over the US?”.
($10,000 dollars per burial times 1,500,000 deaths), the money just keeps following to the top 1 percent. They get you with fake proactive preventative medicine, then when you die. There’s a funeral home that had to buy, sight unseen, used old train reefers cars, basically old refrigerator train cars, to house the bodies, until ground funerals could be performed.
Looks, like global warming, it’s very difficult to convince someone something is bad when you wealth, power, lifestyle, entitlements depends conveniently on you not understanding it. That is the Christian rich republican party, there is no line they won’t “cross”, no pun intended.
Look with an average one person infects 3 to 4 over a 14 day window you do the math.
I believe China had a 2.4+ infection rate, 1.4 world average?
So let’s look at a 2.0 average, sounds good, buy yourself 100 pieces of candy, and you poison two of them, put them in a bag, shake them, now eat a piece.
I would rather take my chances with the candy vs Dotard Don the Con Corona Trump’s advise.
With utmost respect for Dr.Pani’s expertise, I would like to state that let ICMR come out with the dosage and let the govt make arrangements for availability of HCQ freely till the best alternative is invented. Exceptional situation needs un conventional solution. No time for peer review.The doctors who didn’t took the HCQ must have refused to take part in the study.We can’t blame the ICMR and the study can’t be just ignored.
India makes HCQ in abundance quantity that other nations like US,UK,Germany and others are wanting to buy. Quodos to Indian pharmaceutical companies.
Slap on the face of the International Pharma cartel. Cartel wanted costly & patented medicine to be the ultimate treatment for Covid. Kudos to Trump standing against the cartel and bearing all the trolls by the collies and ignorant. Appreciate ICMR for the thought process and wading off the pressure from corporate goondas. Today’s world the actual medicine and stuff counts 50% & rest on the cross currents due to the Power and Technology supermacy.
This medicine is not available in many regions of India. Kindly distribute this to pharmacists across.
Now that its put out in the media,People are gonna just become doctor themselves and start consuming it!!!
It’s over the counter in Iran and many South American countries – like aspirin
1. No peer review of studies done
2. There was no surety of doctors included in the study had actilually taken the hydroxychloroquine tablet. The dosing was not supervised. ( many of my friends told they had tablets bt didn’t take it)
3. There was nothing to associate the blood levels of hydroxychloroquine to events of covid among doctors. There was no blood test at all.
3. Its just prospective study without any randomisation. Why can’t i say the doctors who took HCQ saved themselves because of their immunity.
You should counsel your friends who lied, and .. do you get cuts from the drug cartel ?
You should counsel your friends who lied, and .. do you get cuts from the drg cartl ?
Thank you for being the ONLY voice of reason in these comments!
This “Dr” is bluffing. The ICMR advisory is based on inputs from multiple reputed sources and based on multiple studies. Please read the advisory from ICMR:
https://main.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
Somebody send this to Donald trump – he’ll tweet it
This is contradictory statement as per who press conference yesterday. Hcq is not yet proven but can only be taken in strict medical supervision and it can be fatal and cause cardiac abnormalities.
Please find genuine studies and fight the fake news as per world health organization.
If it’s proven, kindly provide the source of study and the study link along with.
Here it is:
https://main.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf
I suppose doctors already been prescribing hydrochloquine tablets as preventive measure for COVID, need ICMR SIT OVER AND Advise like police entering last in films to arrest villian when Hero had done the job…
“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,”
India should quickly notify the appropriate dosage at which normal people can take HCQ as a preventative (i.e., prophylactic) against Covid-19, manufacture HCQ tablets in that exact dosage, and make it widely and easily available.
The normal population is exposed to a lower virus load than those working on the front lines (medical, police, etc.). Hence, the appropriate dosage might be lower for the normal population, for use as a preventative.
Making it widely and easily available at an appropriate dosage will save many lives, not just as a preventative against Covid-19 but also as a mechanism to reduce the severe anxiety among many people that is leading to widespread mental health problems.
In Dr. Fauci you find a low level of unknown scientist Suddenly thrust into prominence and have been against HCQ. He is one who authored the report at John Hopkins, later withdrawn which forecast 2 million Indians dead. In-spite these fallacies President Trump has kept him as an advisor. Epidimology Is not great science to attract top talent. He is average. He is the one who opposed use of HCQ completely under flimsy test data. In India alone 20 million use HCQ to save themselves from Malaria. There are no listed side affects not more than other drugs. It is Dr. Fauci who spread a bad word about HCQ, in order to give American drugs a chance to succeed. None succeeded as good as HCQ and as cheap as HCQ. Now this is the only cheap drug which gives everybody including President Trump a fighting chance to survive.
Shame on you Dr. Fauci.
Mr. Hari Sud in the comments section is probably correct about Dr. Fauci.
Dr Fauci is a well known, reputed doctor and infectious disease specialist whereas Trump is a fool and knows nothing about science or pharmacology. I agree with Dr Sunil that the study conducted by ICMR is flawed in many aspects especially since now there is an article in The Lancet on a study showing higher mortality risk in patients who took HCQ.
Well, at least Dr. Fauci is a real person. Not so sure about “Dr. Sunil …” and “Dr. Anand Singh Brar”
ICMR advisory is for prophylactic use, whereas the negative studies being cited are in regard to possibility of curative use. Big difference. ICMR is not claiming it to be a cure for those who are already infected badly. No cure has been found yet. Such patients will need much more specialized treatment.
The ICMR advisory is detailed, based on inputs from multiple reputed sources, and based on multiple studies.
https://main.icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/V5_Revised_advisory_on_the_use_of_HCQ_SARS_CoV2_infection.pdf