The debate over using hydroxychloroquine

The debate over using hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients.

BUT SOME PEOPLE CLAIM IT CANHELP TREAT CORONAVIRUS..OTHERS DISAGREE.REPORTER MARY MURPHY FROM OURSISTER STATION IN NEWYORK...LOOKING AT BOTH SIDES OFTHIS,THIS PAST SUNDAY, HE SCOLDED AREPORTER WHO ASKED DR.ANTHONY FAUCI ABOUT IT, ENDINGA WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING FOR THEEVENING.IT WAS A MOMENT THAT HINTED ATDIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF THOUGHTON THE DRUG'S POSSIBLEEFFECTIVENESS AGAINST THECORONAVIRUS THAT'S KILLED MORETHAN 100,000 PEOPLE KILLEDAROUND THE WORLD.WHEN PIX11 FIRST STARTEDREPORTING ON THE EMERGINGPANDEMIC, WE CONSULTED ANINFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT ATBAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INTEXAS.DR.LAILA WOC-COLBURN SAID ON MARCH24 THAT A FRENCH STUDY ONHYDROXYCHLOROQUINE, USED WITHTHE ANTIBIOTIC AZITHROMYCIN,WAS A SMALL ONE AND NOT ENOUGHPROOF IT COULD HELP COVID-19PATIENTS ON A LARGE SCALE."IT CAN ACTUALLY HEMOLYZE YOURRED BLOOD CELLS AND ACTUALLYCAUSE MORE HARM," SHE SAID OFTHE DRUG."IT CAN ALSO HAVE ISSUES WITHYOUR HEART." BUTHYDROXYCHLOROQUINE USED INCOMBINATION WITH THE ANTIBIOTICHAS HELPED SOME PEOPLE.IT SEEMS TO HAVE MADE THEDIFFERENCE FOR A COUNTY SHERIFFWHO WENT TO THE HOSPITAL IN ANNHARBOR, MICHIGAN, ACCORDING TOKATIE PALUCKI, THE SHERIFF'SFAMILY FRIEND."HE WAS ONLY IN THERE TWODAYS," PALUCKI SAID."HE FELT BETTER IMMEDIATELY."YET KATIE'S OWN HUSBAND WAS NOTCONSIDERED A GOOD CANDIDATE FORTHE TREATMENT, BECAUSE HE HASHIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.RON PALUCKI WAS GIVEN AONE-TIME INJECTION OF A DRUGWITH HIGH ZINC LEVELS THATACCORDING TO KATIE PALUCKI, THESHERIFF'S FAMILY FRIEND."HE FELT BETTER IMMEDIATELY."YET KATIE'S OWN HUSBAND WAS NOTCONSIDERED A GOOD CANDIDATE FORTHE TREATMENT, BECAUSE HE HASSEEMED TO HELP HIM.PALUCKI RECOVERED SUFFICIENTLYTO BE MOVED OUT OF THEINTENSIVE CARE UNIT.HERE IN NEW YORK, JOSEPHLEWINGER, THE BELOVEDASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT THE MARYIT DIDN'T IMPROVE HISCONDITION.HIS DOCTORS THEN TRIED ANOTHEREXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT.SADLY, LEWINGER, 42, DIED ONMARCH 28.A JAMAICA, QUEENS WOMAN,JEANNETTE RODRIGUEZ, WAS ALSOTREATED WITHHYDROXYCHLOROQUINE, KNOWN BYITS BRAND NAME, PLANEQUIL.AT ONE POINT, HER CONDITIONSEEMED TO STABILIZE, BUT THENWORSENED.RODRIGUEZ HAD SEVERALUNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS,INCLUDING ASTHMA AND HIV.SHE DIED ON MARCH 30.WHEN THE DOCTOR CALLEDRODRIGUEZ'S SISTER, BETSYRAMOS, "I SAID, 'WHAT HAPPENED?WHAT HAPPENED,'" RAMOSRECOUNTED TO PIX11."SHE SAID, 'OH, SHE WENT INTOCARDIAC ARREST.'

I SAID,'CARDIAC ARREST?'" THERE IS NO,KNOWN CURE FOR COVID-19 AT THISPOINT, BUT SCIENTISTS AREWORKING FEVERISHLY TO FIND ATREATMENT THAT WILL WORK.LABS AROUND THE WORLD ARE ALSOWORKING OVERTIME ON DEVELOPINGAN EFFECTIVE VACCINE AGAINSTTHE SCOURGE THAT HAS SHUT DOWNWHOLE SEGMENTS OF SOCIETY INTHE UNITED STATES AND AROUNDTHE WORLD.A LAS VEGAS WOMAN WILL BEHIGHLIGHTED ON 'THE KELLY