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       CORONAVIRUS MEDICATION DISCUSSION
   DIR By: Road2HardCoreIron
       Date: March 27, 2020, 12:40 pm
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       IMPORTANT: Coronavirus medications
       As with any medication talk to doctors, read good research
       before making any decisions. I will list the medications we hope
       to carry soon. But YOU should do your homework before
       selectioning. Upon rising Request list has grown for this
       product almost as quick as the virus. I remain bipartisan on
       this drug for the COVID-19 use. Just remember do not treat any
       meds we carry as you would homemade products. The sad thing is
       there are some who will pirate this drug. This is the world we
       live in. I won’t let that happen here. If we provide it it will
       be real. Here’s whst we hope to carry very soon. Those on list
       will be first unless your family is in harm. I’m human and do
       care. $$$ helps but comes second to someone’s life. Anyone that
       dealt with me knows my compassion to make one’s life better.
       Greed is what destroys us. BEAWARE OF FAKES! NO ONE CAN PRODUCE
       THIS PRODUCT. BEWARE OF FALSE LABING.
       (STAY SAFE REMAIN IN A SAFE PLACE)
       Aralen 200 mg
       HCQS 500 mg
       Lariago 250 mg
       Lariago 500
       Hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and other potential COVID-19
       treatments explained
       Darrell Etherington
       @etherington / 3:37 pm EDT • March 20, 2020
       FRANCE-CHINA-HEALTH-VIRUS
       Image Credits: GERARD JULIEN / Getty Images
       During two of this week’s White House briefings, President Trump
       referred specifically to two potential treatments that have been
       identified by medical researchers and clinicians, and that have
       undergone various degrees of investigation and testing in the
       ongoing fight against the global coronavirus pandemic. It’s
       important to note upfront that regardless of what you may have
       heard, from Trump or any other sources, no drugs or treatments
       have been proven as effective for either the prevention of
       contracting COVID-19 or for its treatment.
       That said, a number of different clinical studies are currently
       in progress all over the world, and in the U.S., the National
       Institutes of Health is looking to fill a 400-volunteer study
       that will provide clinical results related to use of remdesivir,
       an antiviral drug developed by Gilead originally as a treatment
       for Ebola, but it’s still only in clinical trials even for
       treatment of that disease. This study could also add other drug
       candidates as additional test therapies. Meanwhile, studies in
       China and France have examined the effectiveness of
       anti-malarial drugs, including chloroquine and
       hydroxychloroquine — including one small-scale study that
       suggests the positive effects of hydroxycholoroquine in reducing
       both the duration and symptoms of COVID-19 in combination with
       an antibiotic called azithromycin.
       The important thing to keep in mind when considering these or
       any other potential treatments for the novel coronavirus, which
       is still relatively young, is that a lot of what we know about
       them so far is effectively anecdotal, and based not on the kind
       of scientifically rigorous controlled clinical studies that are
       normally used in the years-long development and certification of
       drugs. Instead, treatments like remdesivir and
       chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine are being deployed in the field
       by healthcare practitioners based on their approved use in
       similar (but crucially not the same) situations, like the Ebola
       and SARS outbreaks.
       Often, they’re being used under what’s called “compassionate”
       grounds in the U.S. This effectively amounts to employing a drug
       that’s not yet certified for general use in treatment of a
       patient whose condition is so severe that a doctor is willing to
       go to desperate lengths to try to alleviate their symptoms. This
       has the advantage of sidestepping typical testing and approval
       procedures, and requiring that the results of its use are
       documented, which contributes to the overall body of clinical
       knowledge in terms of its effects and interactions with patients
       and with COVID-19.
       It’s not a clinical study, however, and that means there are
       still a lot of unknowns when it comes to its use that just can’t
       be learned or asserted based on scattered, individual instances
       of compassionate care treatment.
       “As the Commissioner of FDA and the president mentioned
       yesterday, we’re trying to strike a balance between making
       something with the potential of an effect available to the
       American people, at the same time that we do it under the
       auspices of a protocol that would give us information to
       determine if it’s truly safe and truly effective,” explained
       National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director
       Dr. Anthony Fauci during a press conference on Friday. “But the
       information that you’re referring to specifically is anecdotal,
       it was not done in a controlled clinical trial. So you really
       can’t make any definitive statement about it.”
       During Thursday’s White House coronavirus pandemic task force
       briefing, Trump made false claims that chloroquine was already
       approved by the FDA as a treatment for COVID-19 under an
       emergency authorization. FDA Director Dr. Stephen Hahn clarified
       that this and remdesivir were being considered and studied by
       the FDA, as was an approach that would use plasma extracted from
       patients who’d recovered from COVID-19, as a potential source of
       antibodies for others. Still, all of these are still quite far
       away from clinical deployment in any generally approved way.
       Meanwhile, Fauci’s cautions should be taken for what they are:
       Warnings that are primarily meant to emphasize that the reason
       the FDA requires clinical studies, even for drugs already
       tentatively approved for use in other cases, is because it has
       patient health and safety in mind. While chloroquine has been
       used for decades to treat malaria, and chronic rheumatoid
       arthritis, it can have dangerous side effects, including death,
       if taken incorrectly. Even when taken correctly, it can cause
       things like stomach distress, and even permanent damage to a
       person’s vision.
       Fauci’s comments Friday explain the risks of putting too much
       stock in any potential treatment at this stage, even if they are
       showing promising results among small or even medium-sized
       deployments.
       “You’ve got to be careful when you say ‘fairly effective,’ it
       was never done in a clinical trial that compared it to
       anything,” he said in answer to a reporter’s question about
       chloroquine’s efficacy in treating SARS. “It was given to
       individuals and felt that maybe it worked […] Whenever you do a
       clinical trial, you do standard of care, versus standard of care
       plus the agent you’re evaluating. That’s the reason why we
       showed back in Ebola why particular interventions worked.”
       A summary survey of various prospective treatments and their
       current status was published today In Medscape, and this
       includes the current state of remdesivir and chloroquine
       investigations, as well as a number of other drugs being studied
       by researchers. As has been reported here and elsewhere, there
       are promising signs that they could prove effective in either
       treatment, or treatment and even preventative use (in the case
       of remedesivir), but these are, as Dr. Fauci puts it, only the
       first step that should lead to more sophisticated clinical
       studies, which themselves will then need competing peer studies
       to eventually prove out.
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