so the group of doctors that come out and go against what is commonly understood from the rest of the medical community also want to pray away homosexuality, think yoga is evil, and think jesus is going to shut down facebooks computers. Why the hell are Trump's most vocal supporters so effing nuts??
Only in America does the advice of public health experts get ignored by the presiding administration during a pandemic and blamed for the corresponding destruction, but a group of doctors that are not treating COVID-19 patients on a daily basis (pediatricians, eye doctors, primary care physicians, etc.) get to share their incorrect and meaningless opinions in a press conference held in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Every one of these doctors is in private practice, and their bottom line has been negatively affected by COVID-19 because people are postponing regular checkups and elective procedures. This is no different then when a bunch of physicians that owned for-profit ER’s complained that March/April COVID-19 lockdowns were an excessive response. Want to know where Dr. Immanuel works? She’s a primary care physician at Rehoboth Medical Center, a walk-in clinic located in a strip center on Highway 6 near Mission Bend. She’s not qualified to treat COVID-19 patients, but her facility does so anyway. We already know hydroxychloroquine isn’t effective at treating COVID-19 patients. In fact, it also recently just flunked its Phase III trial.
There's also a term for educated people that think they know everything outside of their studied expertise that's similar to the dunning-kruger effect.
Hydroxy just messes with your Ph levels. It’s like saying you are having a religious experience because you are fasting when in reality your brain is just sending you warnings signs that you are going to die if you don’t eat. Christians know this and still fast to make themselves believe they had an experience with God. I think the same thing is going on with Hydroxy.
Yeah I've been seeing Rightwingers posting again this past week about Hydroxychloroquine. Not sure what caused the recent push. As other posters noted while there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that it worked as a treatment most studies showed it didn't do much. I've heard that some doctors still use it as a last resort.
With people I know that live in some of those small towns off I10 between Houston and San Antonio I know for a fact those folks that are getting Covid are getting prescribed Hydroxy. In one of those towns that my wife’s parents live, basically everyone in the town has Covid. It is Trump country on steroids. Doctors are people too. Doctors sometimes watch FoxNews too and don’t always read up on every study released. So yeah... it’s not surprising that even after being debunked a good chunk of Americans are still on the bandwagon. I think what matters most though is what is happening at places like Medical City Eventually those patients if they get worse will end up in Houston and doctors that are on the leading edge of medicine are there. Eventually those docs influence their power over urban areas that feed into their hospitals and I think that’s when those country doctors are much more inclined to change to what science says they should actually do. But right now I know for a fact docs are still prescribing it even in mild cases.
That's sad to hear but I can believe it. Hydroxychloroquine isn't without risk and given how many heart problems Americans have this definitely shouldn't be prescribed without a lot of thought.
