We review the available evidence supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine-based multidrug protocols in the treatment of COVID-19, in response to a recently published editorial in the Tasman Medical Journal.
I respond to a recently-published TMJ Editorial Review,1 which commented on an article of mine entitled “The Curious Case of Hydroxychloroquine” published in Quadrant magazine (March 2024).2 I disagree with the reviewer’s points of view for the reasons presented here.
The editor of TMJ responds to a recent article in Quadrant promoting hydroxychloroquine in early COVID-19 infection. Review of the evidence does not support the use of hydroxychloroquine in this indication.
This republished article describes the situation for nurses and nursing practice at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Originally published in the Journal of Evidence-based Nursing Practice
Widespread uptake of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection is limited by a minority in the population who decline to be vaccinated. The proportion varies between centres, and several reasons for non-vaccination exist or are stated. These include social reasons, especially (in Australia) in remote indigenous communities; medical reasons in patients with impaired immunity and like diseases; distaste at administration of foreign compounds and other forms of disagreement with the principles of vaccination; and disbelief that in the case of COVID-19 the
Briefly describes the emerging clinical evidence of effectiveness of molnupiravir and the supporting animal evidence.
INTRODUCTION High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) and non-invasive ventilation (NIV) may reduce the requirement for invasive ventilation in selected patients with respiratory failure. However, there is concern that, when used in the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), both modalities may increase the risk of transmission to healthcare workers (HCW) through small droplet aerosol generation. Small droplet aerosols have the potential to remain airborne for extended periods of time, follow air currents within the room, and penetrate deep into the airways,
Sophisticated mathematical modeling of epidemic or pandemic spread of infections is based on differential equations containing exponential functions. The sophistication of these models is essential but they have a disadvantage of being difficult or impossible to be understood by readers unfamiliar with advanced mathematics. I have developed a spreadsheet model to estimate infection rates and mortality with Covid-19 as a function of time using only a few simple assumptions.
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