I work in healthcare and am aware of at least two entire groups of physicians, both neurosurgeons and obstetricians, that procured this specific combo of meds in another country before Trump ever mentioned the drugs. They’ve been taking HCQ as a preventive ever since. I’m not saying it’s a wise course of action, but there are well-respected physicians taking it. There are also literally millions of people who have taken and continue to take these meds for years without serious adverse reaction. Sure, some have significant problems, but that’s true of just about any medication and certainly not unique to these particular drugs.
This is factually untrue. Preventative antibiotics are given before surgery to prevent well-know risks of post-op infections. My daughter takes a preventative antibiotic and will for a solid decade following minor heart valve damage after strep-induced rheumatic fever. I took a low dose antibiotic for over a year after getting married when nothing worked to stop frequent, repeated urinary tract infections that were leading to kidney infections which damaged my kidneys.
There are absolutely legitimate reasons to consider an antibiotic to prevent infection.
Are you saying that the physicians are taking antibiotics to prevent CoVid? Can you say more about that? Surely not.
Preventive antibiotics prescribed by a surgeon before surgery - yes. Preventive antibiotics (and we now know that Trump's own doctors didn't prescribe them according to his own interview in the links above) for CoVid?
Really? You know people who are taking Z-pac in advance for CoVid? I'm truly curious.
I know a lot of physicians too. A good friend of mine is head of pediatric infectious disease unit at a major university hospital. She hasn't heard of this. Is it regional? She's in Northern California.
I wasn't speaking at all about people who take HCQ prescribed by their doctor for a condition for which it was approved. And, I suppose, if physicians wish to experiment on themselves they will (although I am surprised that it's this particular drug).
No one wants to take a preventative antibiotic for a decade, unless they have to. Surely. For an actual condition for which said antibiotic is ordinarily prescribed.
But to each their own. I just find it interesting that no doctor will come out and actually say anything in public to support this. Even, apparently, the well-placed doctors you know. When people post as you did just did, I can definitely see why so many people don't trust doctors. It makes it sound like they're hoarding drugs and taking them, themselves, while not recommending the same drug to the general public.
Are they at least enrolled in some kind of study?