Following on from "Your Drugs May Pose A Greater Risk Than Your Covid" comes another important video. This interview, as with the first, is part of the #COVID19Chronicles.
Journalist, Frank Barat, and Dr. Joan-Ramon Laporte discuss Hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial drug made popular recently by President Donald Trump, clinical trials, and polypharmacy (the simultaneous use of multiple drugs by a single patient, for one or more conditions.)
I've extracted some of the comments from Dr. Joan-Ramon Laporte, these are not verbatim due to time constraints on my part.
The video is worth sharing, so please share across social media platforms and to anyone you know currently working at hospitals etc.
Here are some of the comments by Dr Laporte.
According to the product characteristic label, Ibuprofen can worsen infections or mask infections.
Hydroxychloroquine (anti-malarial) has been mostly used for autoimmune diseases, which have nothing to do with viruses. It has some anti-viral action in the laboratory, in-vitro (taking place in a test tube, culture dish, or elsewhere outside a living organism)
50 clinical trials have recently been started with hydroxychloroquine, none of the researchers or pharmaceutical companies wish to share their information with other researchers or other pharmaceutical companies. The sacred cows of clinical research are still there.
The hydroxychloroquine 'experiment' in Marseille, France, was not a clinical trial as it had no comparators (no placebo group) One or two patients died but were excluded from the analysis.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) need common international collaborative platforms for clinical research.
WHO need to identify all the other drugs we are taking for other indications, like antidepressants, antipsychotics, analgesics, opiates, to see to which extent these drugs can affect your probability of getting the disease (Covid19)
In many countries many old people, who are those most vulnerable to the disease (Covid19) are taking many drugs, for example, in the UK 30% older than 65 are taking 10 or more drugs every day. This is a very dangerous cocktail, not only because these drugs can interact with one another, but also because many of these drugs increase the risk of getting pneumonia. Once a person gets the disease (Covid19) they can develop a more severe form of it depending on the drugs they are taking at the time. The fewer drugs you take, the less your probabilities of getting Covid19, this is important, particularly for elderly people.
If you have a fever and the fever is not bothering you, let the fever be because fever is a defence mechanism of our body, it's not something bad.
Bob Fiddaman
