Posted on 06/15/2020 9:41:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
Key Points
The Food and Drug Administration said it is ending its emergency use authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drugs backed by President Donald Trump to combat Covid-19.
The agency determined the drugs were “unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses in the EUA.”
Trump disclosed last month he was taking hydroxychloroquine daily to prevent infection from the coronavirus.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it is ending its emergency use authorization of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drugs backed by President Donald Trump to combat Covid-19.
The agency determined the drugs were “unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses in the EUA.”
“Additionally, in light of ongoing serious cardiac adverse events and other serious side effects, the known and potential benefits of CQ and HCQ no longer outweigh the known and potential risks for the authorized use,” the FDA wrote in its notice Monday.
The FDA issued the emergency use of the drugs in March. The EUA meant that doctors would be allowed to use the drugs on patients hospitalized with Covid-19 even though they had not been formally approved by the agency.
However, the FDA warned consumers a month later against taking the drugs to treat Covid-19 outside a hospital or formal clinical trial setting due to the risk of “serious heart rhythm problems” in some patients.
Trump disclosed last month he was taking hydroxychloroquine daily to prevent infection from the coronavirus. White House physician Dr. Sean Conley released a memo that said that after discussing evidence for and against hydroxychloroquine with Trump, they concluded “the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks.”
In addition to treating malaria, hydroxychloroquine is often used by doctors to treat rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. It is known to have serious side effects, including muscle weakness and heart arrhythmia. Numerous clinical trials are looking to see if it’s effective in fighting Covid-19, but it is not a proven treatment.
A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found hydroxychloroquine was no better than a placebo in preventing infection of the coronavirus.
The study, the first randomized, placebo-controlled trial, which is considered the “gold standard” in science, looked at 821 people in the United States and Canada who had been exposed to the coronavirus.
There are no FDA-approved drugs for the treatment of Covid-19, which has infected more than more than 7.9 million people worldwide and killed at least 434,060, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. On May 1, the FDA granted emergency use authorization for Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir drug to treat Covid-19.
Even though hydroxychloroquine is not a proven treatment for the coronavirus, some people across the world have been taking it after a handful of small studies published earlier in the year suggested it could be beneficial and Trump promoted the drug as a potential treatment for the virus.
A recent JAMA study found U.S. prescriptions for the drug surged nearly 2,000% in March when Trump first promoted the drug as a potential treatment.
someone at FDA is trying to kill people!
there have been several excellent, large scale studies reporting over 90 percent cure rate for this trifecta of cheap easy plentiful meds
let’s find out who by name did this !!!! and get them fired ASAP! I am serious
No better than a placebo?
Not true. There are a few cases of people who survived the disease after taking the drug.
I completely agree!
Hydroxychloroquine.... the most politically weaponized drug in history. https://conservativewoman.co.uk/the-marx-brothers-do-science/
That the people on the left want the virus to spread would not surprised me. They love having people locked in their homes, afraid and not seeing family or friends.
I guess the leftist dictators want total control.
the data is HCQ is safe ... and people should have choice.
the FDA is by this the
FEDERAL DEATH AGENCY (FDA-ISIS)
against the American people.
WTH?????
Shouldn’t this be between doctor and patient?
Okay, time to stock up on zinc and magnesium pills.
But the AAPS should beware of Obama, Bush, or Clinton judges.
its about big pharma and the huge $$$$$ to be made with expensive IV meds and then there’s the whole story about Gates and his vaccine....
I believe we are witnessing NWO genocide
It’s a shame too.
Me and my family are actually “quarantining”. Not Quarantine but we are avoiding social situations. Yeah, yell at me or whatever but I don’t want my family to have this illness.
In order to get out of the house and back into society we have chosen several benchmarks that must be in place. One of these benchmarks is the availability and willingness to give HCQ as treatment should anyone around me get sick.
With that off the table, we’ll be sequestered for a longer amount of time.
Vaccine and treatment are two different things................
Interesting that this follows another article I just read telling how the British highly touted study about H-chloroquie treatment ...”turned out to be produced by a shell company, with unverified data gathered by non-scientists...”
And of course, when we’re talkin’ CNBC, once again, we’re talkin’ ...’turned out to be produced by a company, with unverified data gathered by non-scientists.’
Methinks I see a trend there.
[[“Additionally, in light of ongoing serious cardiac adverse events and other serious side effects,]]
How many people have died as a result of HCQ? They keep making the claim it’s so dangerous- but never tel anyone how many have died as a direct result of HCQ
[[there have been several excellent, large scale studies reporting over 90 percent cure rate ]]
Which contradicts their idiotic claim that the benefits do not outweigh the risks of HCQ
They cannot force the vaccine onto people if there is a cheap effective treatment or preventive
Have we ever seen such a damaging intrusion of politics and big pharma into medicine?
Yes people will get very sick, suffer permanent damage and die
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