Posted on 06/01/2020 5:58:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
THE UNITED STATES announced that it has sent 2 million doses of the anti-malaria drug touted as a coronavirus treatment by President Donald Trump to Brazil.
In a joint statement Sunday, the U.S. and Brazil said the hydroxychloroquine will be used as a prophylactic to defend health care workers in Brazil against the virus, as well as a treatment to help Brazilians who become infected.
The U.S. is also sending 1,000 ventilators to Brazil, which has the second most cases of COVID-19 in the world. Globally, health officials report more than 6.18 million cases of the coronavirus and more than 372,460 deaths.
The U.S. leads the world in cases, with more than 1.79 million, and deaths, with more than 104,380. Brazil has more than 514,850 cases and 29,314 deaths.
While Trump has lauded the anti-malaria drug as an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus and revealed last month he had been taking it, no scientific evidence has shown it is effective.
A study published in The Lancet last month found that coronavirus patients given hydroxychloroquine actually had an increased risk of death and abnormal heart rhythms. However, that study has faced scrutiny. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of Trump, has also promoted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.
The countries announced that they will launch a joint research effort that will include randomized controlled clinical trials to "help further evaluate the safety and efficacy of HCQ for both prophylaxis and the early treatment of the coronavirus."
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Study in India shows positive results of hcq:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3850578/reply?c=1
Hmmmm....and this prophylactic is NOT generally available here in the USA to this country’s residents.
Something continues to be wrongheaded with the medical system in the USA.
wtf, we can’t take it but we’re sending it to Brazil so they can?
President Trump needs to send 2 million “doses” of American Troops to our nation’s city streets to put down the virus that’s out there threatening everyone.
At this point, hasn’t the rioting become more of a threat to our nation than COVID?
Along with all those ventilators we rushed to produce because we supposedly didn’t have enough.
I still want to know where all those NYC ventilators that went in the front door of hospitals and out the back went.
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