Posted on 04/10/2020 10:45:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing new calls to allow wider use of the anti-malaria drug touted by President Trump as a possible treatment option for COVID-19 patients.
Hydroxychloroquine combined with antibiotics have proven to be an effective treatment for some patients suffering from severe symptoms of the disease, proponents say. Skeptics say Trump has painted too rosy a picture of the off-label drug that is not a proven treatment.
Reuters reported that Macron recently visited a doctor in Marseille who is known for his work on the drug. Macron met Professor Didier Raoult behind closed doors. Macron's office insisted that the meeting was no endorsement.
The report cited a local newspaper that said Raoult showed Macron the result of a study that showed a 91 percent success rate when the drug was used on 1,061 patients.
Last month, Trump tweeted that the combination could be the “biggest game changer in the history of medicine.”
Raoult said in a Youtube video discussing his findings, “We have results which are significant to show that hydroxychloroquine is clearing the virus from the respiratory system.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of Trump's coronavirus task force, called the evidence “anecdotal.”
“It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it,” he said.
Newsweek reported that there is a petition circulating in France with 460,000 signatures calling for wider use of the drug.
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Doing so would mean admitting Trump was right about something and was in out in front of the problem.
Better that thousands should die than Present Trump be proven right.
I'm still waiting for the double blind studies that demonstrate social distancing works.
I don’t think I’ve read a single story about this that didn’t say “touted by Trump”, which is stupid because it was actually touted by a doctor, and then other doctors — Trump heard about it, and spread the news.
But if it works, I guess it will be politically helpful that it is “the drug touted by Trump”.
OF course, he has touted other drugs as well.
Socialist Dictator Macron deciding whether you live or die.
None of the enemedia wants to acknowledge the double blind, randomized, controlled, study done in China which said its effective. They focus only on the French study.
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