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I test IHU and IHU tests me

By Charles-Edouard!

Travel Medicine: Prophylaxis and/or vaccines are essential for travelers... Well... I testify...

And the young girl nervously called her mother.

COVID test in 10 hours!

You can find almost nothing on the Internet, except this excellent post: I tested for you... the PCR-72h at the IHU of Timone in Marseille: 3h30 watch in hand to get the sesame within 24 hours.

I can confirm: 40 minutes in line, about 20 people in front of me. The results, in routine mode, asymptomatic, were published in 10 hours.

Raoult, the media-savvy professor from Marseilles, has set up a formidable screening war machine that is reactive and runs smoothly, despite his detractors.

Raoult organizes and advertises

The stewardship follows... The video was published after my blind test. It says it all, explains it all. You can find it here. The national municipal sport of Marseille is the attempt of free-riding. There are PROs. There is also a service of order... We are not in a model city, either!...

Why IHU rather than elsewhere? 24 hours and Ct = 35

I chose IHU because of 2 technical parameters, guaranteed, availability within 24 hours and a 35 Ct. Ct's of 40, or even 42, have a 1 in 2 chance of unnecessarily cancelling the trip! They are misleading! At check-in/disembarkation no one checks your Ct. I am putting all the chances of success on my side...

I am also testing the Raoult triple therapy

It's negative, of course, and I have no desire to catch it on the plane. Once I passed the test, at the very minute, in the corridor of the IHU, I swallow my first dose of HCQ + Doxycycline + Zn. I use Doxycyline because it is prescribed as an anti-STI prophylaxis, thanks to Molina, useful for this time... Here is the Molina publication: Doxycycline Prophylaxis for Bacterial Sexually Transmitted Infections. Here is the Molina dosage: doxycycline 200 mg within 24-72 hours of condomless sexual encounters. Not the same as the Marseilles potion. The box is the same.

If I am positive, I will become negative again faster!

HCQ is harder to find since the infamous Buzyn decree. But hey... There is not only France in the world!!! There is also the Northern Districts!!! Marseille, you can find everything!

I am used to Nivaquine. This product has been sold over the counter since the dawn of time: it has no business being on list 2... I never had any problem, and now, I don't feel anything at all. No interaction, that's one of the advantages of the 1/15, you go between the drops. Note that Raoult had excluded some patients because of their continuous ARV treatment. This does not concern me...

It appears that HCQ is to be reserved for outpatients or first line (emergencies). Its administration in intensive care, or even in hospital, late, beyond 2 days from the onset of symptoms and/or in severe forms, is still under debate. Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin as early as possible (first day of onset of symptoms), Zinc, Vitamins C and D have their place in the management of COVID-19 viral infection.

In short, treat as soon as possible. Waiting for PCR results for several days is a deleterious loss of chance. The Moroccan strategy takes the Raoulian motto the wrong way. Instead of test, isolate, treat, it is treat, isolate, test. This makes sense because the treatment is, in a civilized country like Morocco, immediately available, very inexpensive, and safe.

Can you get a result within 24 hours ? If yes, Raoult procedure, if not, Moroccan procedure, if yes, that works too! Can you get HCQ+... within 24 hours ? If yes, prescription/pharmacy. If not, anticipate and manage! This can save you a lot of worry and anxiety. My pharmacist tells me it's on back order...

Raoult procedure or better yet... the Moroccan alternative

The leaflet distributed at IHU ...

The official Moroccan protocol is here : Hydroxychloroquine is not a cure, but it slows down the contagion (Ait Taleb) .

Here is what he says:
Here is what this speech hides: an over-the-counter medication (as it has always been) is a matter of patient freedom! Chloroquine is Quinine syrupIt is found in the syrup of my ancestors and in Campari! This molecule has nothing to do in list 2: it is even a crime to have put it therewithout any justification!

Here again, the zotorities have seriously harmed the interest of the patient...

I act accordingly... If I need the test, I know where to go... To go from Paris to Marseille cost me 89 Eu. and a tiring day. If I had been sick, it would have been impossible! So the test, from the point of view of the interest of the non-marseillaise patient, is a waste of time, of chance. What does going through the toubid box bring?

Better to avoid doctors: there are too many who are very bad