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Finally, States Are Retracting Hydroxychloroquine Bans
Townhall.com ^ | August 27, 2020 | Christina Herrin

Posted on 08/27/2020 11:12:28 AM PDT by Kaslin

In an abrupt about-face, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy and governor of Minnesota have recently retracted their decisions to ban the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients. As the saying goes, it’s better late than never.

For mostly political reasons, hydroxychloroquine has become a highly controversial drug. Ever since President Trump voiced his support for the drug as a viable treatment for coronavirus, the liberal mainstream media has gone berserk and have done all in their power to discredit hydroxychloroquine.

Keep in mind, the liberal mainstream media are not doctors.

On March 21, President Trump tweeted:

“HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH … be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE!”

Finally, nearly five months after Trump’s tweet, some state leaders are allowing residents in their states to take a drug that could literally save their lives.

At this point, you may be wondering why this drug has become so controversial. It surely isn’t due to lack of safety, even if the mainstream liberal media says so. In fact, hydroxychloroquine has been approved for more than 65 years. It is commonly used to treat diseases such as arthritis, lupus, and other autoimmune diseases.

Despite the misgivings of mainstream media morons, who have no idea what they are talking about, hydroxychloroquine is an off-patent drug that is affordable, accessible, and could make a huge difference in the fight against coronavirus.

Here is a pointed question for the media hypocrites who decry hydroxychloroquine: How many Americans need to die before safe and viable treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine, are made widely available?

As of now, anyone who questions the mainstream liberal media’s narrative regarding coronavirus or potential treatments is heavily criticized. Unfortunately, even medical experts who have no political skin in the game are put on the chopping block if they offer a counter viewpoint.

Such is what happened to the highly esteemed Harvey A. Risch, MD, PHD, a professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. Risch has been bombarded with insults from media lightweights because he published a piece in the American Journal of Epidemiology, titled “Early Outpatient Treatment of Sympotmatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-UP Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis.”

Risch’s work has garnered national attention. He was recently featured on Mark Levin’s TV show, where he gave an irrefutable case for using hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and prophylactic for coronavirus.

As Risch stated, his findings suggest that “hydroxychloroquine … has been widely misrepresented in both clinical trial reports and public media.” What a sad state of affairs.

Doctors across the globe have offered mountains of evidence that hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc or azithromycin, when used by patients not yet hospitalized and recently infected, yields extremely positive results.

Even though YouTube has pulled videos of doctors promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine and the mainstream media continues to purposefully mislead the public about this drug, Americans are still aware of the overwhelming potential this drug offers for those suffering with the dreaded and deadly coronavirus.

Fortunately, some states are realizing how ludicrous it is to prevent their residents from attaining a drug that has been around for more than six decades and has been used by millions of people across the globe.

What is scary is the fact that several states, in cahoots with a malicious media campaign to destroy the president, have decided it is politically desirous to prevent their residents from using a drug that could literally save thousands of lives.

Health care is an extremely personal decision that must remain in the hands of the individual, not the collective. COVID-19 has demonstrated without a doubt that dirty, rotten politics often transcends common sense, compassion, and decency, even in life and death situations.

It is time that Americans demand the ability to make their own health care decisions, in consultation with their doctors, not media blowhards who probably couldn’t tell the difference between a stethoscope and a microphone.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; hydroxychloroquine; inchingtowelback; nlz
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1 posted on 08/27/2020 11:12:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Hmmm. More results of the dems polling. Riots, bad. Banning a drug that will save lives, bad. I wonder if they’ll catch on.


2 posted on 08/27/2020 11:14:14 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (I miss Brother Rob.)
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To: Kaslin

The drug is NOT controversial. The dems frothing-at-the-mouth hissy fit because it works is controversial.


3 posted on 08/27/2020 11:15:15 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (I miss Brother Rob.)
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To: Kaslin

Is it part of the political calculus that both states are now “battleground” states with thin margins? Naw.....


4 posted on 08/27/2020 11:17:57 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: JudyinCanada

They are to stupid. Yesterday morning Fox News reported that some lunatic screamed “Death to America.”


5 posted on 08/27/2020 11:18:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They let people die because they hate Trump.


6 posted on 08/27/2020 11:18:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There absolutely MUST be a debate:Trump vs gropey-joe)
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They hate Trump more than they love Life.


7 posted on 08/27/2020 11:18:43 AM PDT by JoanSmith
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To: Kaslin

“Unfortunately, even medical experts who have no political skin in the game......

Uhhh no, liberals have made everything political.


8 posted on 08/27/2020 11:19:01 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: Kaslin
How many Americans need to die before safe and viable treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine, are made widely available?

From the media hypocrites and D governors; until Trump is gone.

9 posted on 08/27/2020 11:19:09 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: Kaslin
Finally, States Are Retracting Hydroxychloroquine Bans

They are finally getting a clue from the DOJ about the "Crimes Against Humanity" discussions.

Barr is not joking.

10 posted on 08/27/2020 11:20:19 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: meadsjn

I wonder if they are tacitly agreeing they have been a party to a murder conspiracy.


11 posted on 08/27/2020 11:25:55 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Kaslin

Enough have already died, that now they can un-ban it.


12 posted on 08/27/2020 11:26:07 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Kaslin

There will be a Netflix series on this tragedy. We used to hold medicine and science above political influence. Along comes climate change and certain medical initiatives and scientific peer review publishing goes from trusted to fake. People died in the later, many of them, and the medical perpetrators need to be held accountable.

Then there’s the quest for a single agent to control disease, rather than repurposing existing agents, or combining agents. There’s research, but no implementation because there’s no money and the FDA is too blind to seek out non pharma protocols. Cancer therapy is about to be upended.


13 posted on 08/27/2020 11:28:28 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: Kaslin; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
I note my benighted state, whose governor was caught red-handed hoarding HCQ for himself, his family, and felons in prison (honest, hard-working taxpayers be damned!) has not seen fit to allow doctors to practice medicine, nor patients to have a "my body, my choice" right to a prescription, hasn't felt enough heat to see the light. Yet.
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

14 posted on 08/27/2020 11:28:31 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: Kaslin

Wow... thanks for posting this!


15 posted on 08/27/2020 11:30:07 AM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Mouton

That’s what the DOJ letter hinted at. 4 Dem governors named first.


16 posted on 08/27/2020 11:35:14 AM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Kaslin

They say listen to the science but when it come to HCQ the science is no good.


17 posted on 08/27/2020 11:35:56 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: Kaslin

There is nothing else out there. It’s not like the use of HCQ would keep anyone from using another drug that works any better.


18 posted on 08/27/2020 11:36:26 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: Kaslin

I would love to see the people who banned a life saving drug removed from power and imprisoned for what they have done or worse.


19 posted on 08/27/2020 11:37:58 AM PDT by Trillian
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Their work is done.


20 posted on 08/27/2020 11:41:33 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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