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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (144969)5/7/2020 10:08:00 PM
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I saw that article a few days ago, and posted how disappointed I was that the FDA used the "excuse" of a prolonged QT interval to disapprove of its use as a first line agent for Covid 19.

I believe that it works by preventing the cytokine (inflammatory response proteins) storm that leads to the most severe form of the illness, by down-regulating that part of the immune system.

As happens so often in medicine, it was a coincidental finding that it was noticed that those patients already on Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) did not get coronavirus