Lucianne.com links to a
Yahoo News article about Hydrochloroquine and Covid-19. The article quotes a group called the
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons as claiming the following.
To date, the total number of reported patients treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin, is 2,333, writes AAPS, in observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.
I'd really like to believe this is true, and it could in fact be true. However,
Wikipedia describes the official-sounding Association of American Physicians and Surgeons in these words.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association founded in 1943. It is opposed to the Affordable Care Act and other forms of universal health insurance.[1][2] The group was reported to have about 4,000 members in 2005, and 5,000 in 2014.
The association is generally recognized as politically conservative or ultra-conservative, and its publication advocates a range of scientifically discredited hypotheses, including the belief that HIV does not cause AIDS, that being gay reduces life expectancy, that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, and that there is a causal relationship between vaccines and autism.
That description suggests not viewing the AAPS as experts. Their beliefs, if accurately described, are bunkum. This group is exactly who you do not want an endorsement from.
