Thread by @DavidLat

This is my definitive statement about my medications/treatments for #coronavirus/#COVID19/#COVID_19.

Please note: it corrects errors in past statements of mine, for which I apologize.

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Caveat: I'm not a doctor or scientist, and I have no medical or scientific background. I'm just a patient who received a bunch of medications/treatments and recovered from #coronavirus.

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I wasn't sure if what I remembered about my medications was correct, so I asked a doctor at @NYUlangone to look at my actual patient records; these tweets are based on those records.

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These are the #coronavirus-related drugs I received:

- lopinavir/ritonavir (brand name Kaletra), 3/17-3/20
- #hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin, 3/20-3/25
- clazakizumab (trial), 3/21 and 3/23

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What these drugs are about:

- lopinavir/ritonavir is an antiviral used for HIV/AIDS
- #hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial, and azithromycin is an antibiotic
- clazakizumab is an IL6 inhibitor

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Corrections to some of my past tweets/statements:

- I did not get Kevzara (confused it with Kaletra)
- I did not get tocilizumab
- I did not get remdesivir (might have been discussed, never administered)

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The corrections don't really change my bottom line about my treatments: because I received multiple medications for #coronavirus/#COVID19/#COVID_19, it's not possible to say what worked or didn't work based just on my case.

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As I told @Reuters:

"The doctors haven’t concluded what caused my recovery. The state of coronavirus research is very much 'throw stuff against a wall and see what sticks.'

reut.rs/2JJd4r1

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"But when something does stick, in terms of a good patient outcome, you’re not sure what stuck."

Bottom line: we need more clinical trials and research if we want to draw sound conclusions.

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If you are pro-#hydroxychloroquine, I can tell you that my mother, a pathologist, is firmly convinced that it saved my life.

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If you are anti-#hydroxychloroquine, I can tell you that a college friend of mine who treats #coronavirus patients is skeptical of it as a treatment (as opposed to preventing spread).

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On #hydroxychloroquine, @nyulangone is conducting a randomized clinical trial (gold standard in research), with a $9.5M grant from the @gatesfoundation, to see if it can help block transmission.

bit.ly/39QnrDT

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Where do I come down in the end?

I'm glad I received multiple medications.

I'm glad I recovered from #coronavirus/#COVID19/#COVID_19.

I'm not in a position to say which specific drugs did or did not work on me.

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