Illinois Media & The State Should Immediately Update Their Message On Hydroxychloroquine
If you read nothing else in recent news about the fight against coronavirus, read the Newsweek column from Thursday by a leading epidemiologist at Yale University, Harvey A. Risch headlined, “The Key to Defeating COVID-19 Already Exists. We Need to Start Using It.”
It might save your life.
“Tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly,” Risch wrote, and he detailed exactly why.
It’s about the most current scientific evidence that hydroxychloroquine, also known as HCQ, is safe and effective for many COVID-19 victims when used with the right combination of other drugs, particularly for high-risk patients who are treated early.
His conclusion:
For the sake of high-risk patients, for the sake of our parents and grandparents, for the sake of the unemployed, for our economy and for our polity, especially those disproportionately affected, we must start treating immediately.
Only if you follow national news on coronavirus have you already read about Risch’s article. It has been republished elsewhere there and widely quoted.
But not in Illinois, and most Illinoisans undoubtedly are unaware of the latest science on hydroxychloroquine that Risch summarized. Most folks get their news by a cursory glance at headlines, a few chosen stories and maybe an evening local TV program.
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