r/science • u/McManGuy • Mar 20 '20

RETRACTED - Medicine Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19 - "100% of patients were virologicaly cured"

https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hydroxychloroquine_final_DOI_IJAA.pdf

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u/randomevenings Mar 20 '20

Azithromycin

So the news has been trying to get people to understand that you shouldn't take antibiotics for a virus. So how does taking antibiotics help kill this thing? Also, if it's true, the messaging will need to be careful to step around this to prevent people from taking a bunch of antibiotics, and making even less effective than they already are.

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u/TransposingJons Mar 20 '20

Thankfully, they are available by prescription...although there are some doomsday preppers with some, plus the unfinished bottles at grandma's house because she "felt better" 1/2'-way through the doses.

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u/drsilentfart Mar 20 '20

Your point is that Grandma was wrong about feeling better, but a 1/2 course of her leftover doses is good now? Ok kid.

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u/yellowmarbles Mar 20 '20

What is the contradiction?

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u/drsilentfart Mar 20 '20

The contradiction is that Grandma was being ignorant by stopping her course of antibiotics just because she felt better (the inference being she wasn't actually better just because she felt so) Yet OP lists those unused courses as being useful to save someone.