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too bad the President continues to spread "False hope". /s
1 posted on 03/21/2020 12:30:06 PM PDT by nbenyo
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Wrong! The media says it doesn’t work so this guy must immediately report to the nearest morgue.


2 posted on 03/21/2020 12:34:04 PM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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“If you were to look at me today, I am 100 times better than I was yesterday,”

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. All the talking-head “expert” skepticism on CNN can’t change the fact that real patients and real doctors on the ground are getting good results with this combo. Looks like Trump is going to be proven right... as usual.


3 posted on 03/21/2020 12:34:44 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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Undermining careful bureaucratically conducted science with yet more anecdote.


4 posted on 03/21/2020 12:36:48 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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Follow the money.
Hydroxycholorquine costs about $20 for one month's supply. It is a generic drug manufactured by several companies. It has been approved and in use since 1955 for malaria and other diseases. It is unlikely that drug companies will pay for clinical trials to test the efficacy of hydroxycholorquine in view of limited profit potential.

Remdesivir is a proprietary experimental drug developed by one major medical company, Gilead Science. It has not been approved for use at all, but is being clinically tested, apparently sponsored by Gilead Science. Estimated cost for one month's supply is $1,000. There is a high profit potential if this drug is ultimately approved.

Is it any wonder that the drug industry is trying to slow the use of Hydroxycholoroquine to maintain a market for
remdesivir after it finishes clinical trials?

The FDA has long had a symbiotic relationship with the drug industry, which some might view as incestuous, or worse. It is possible that the FDA is complicit in delaying use of hydroxychloroquine to allow a window of opportunity for the profit from Remdesivir.

5 posted on 03/21/2020 12:36:53 PM PDT by LOC1 (Its the Economy, Stupid !)
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I think the unspoken concern is the shortage of quinine derivatives that may develop - as people who aren’t ill with covid-19 ask their doctors to prescribe the drug:
https://www.businessinsider.com/chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-shortage-coronavirus-treatment-lupus-arthritis-2020-3


6 posted on 03/21/2020 12:39:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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I know 2.

One serious condition, other not yet, both live in Everett WA.


8 posted on 03/21/2020 12:42:00 PM PDT by datura
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These pills cost about$7.50 each in the USA.In Indonesia you can get a bottle of 30 with no script for $3.00.


12 posted on 03/21/2020 12:58:04 PM PDT by Renegade
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These pills cost about$7.50 each in the USA.In Indonesia you can get a bottle of 30 with no script for $3.00.


13 posted on 03/21/2020 12:58:05 PM PDT by Renegade
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These pills cost about$7.50 each in the USA.In Indonesia you can get a bottle of 30 with no script for $3.00.


14 posted on 03/21/2020 12:58:08 PM PDT by Renegade
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What if he does not have coronavirus but has some other common virus and all these years these quinine-based drugs could have cured them?


15 posted on 03/21/2020 1:01:24 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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Bad news for hysterics.


18 posted on 03/21/2020 2:57:58 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Prayers for Rush)
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The U.S. patent number US 7,220,852 B1 w issued for the SARS-COV genome in 2007, applied for in 2003, covers the period in which the primate testing with chloroquine to treat SARS-COV occurred. The CDC is listed in the Assignee box. This patent appears to be recently expired.

This patent may have encumbered anyone seeking to further develop a treatment for the Coronavirus family of diseases, based on work associated with that outbreak. SARS receded into the background after the outbreak of 2002-2003. The connected research has now become applicable to the current viral outbreak, and is not limited by this prior patent. New vaccines will obtain patent protection, and a price tag to cover development costs.


22 posted on 03/21/2020 4:44:23 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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And what the heck is wrong with hope from anecdotal study. Dr Faucci and other doctor experts want to be perceived as the experts and don’t like their god-like status challenged.


24 posted on 03/21/2020 5:15:44 PM PDT by GOPPachyderm
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