Posted on 06/17/2020 9:00:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Doctors can still prescribe anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to patients, US Health Secretary Alex Azar said, hours after the FDA withdrew the emergency use authorisation of chloroquine and HCQ in the treatment of COVID 19 patients.
The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) decision came on Monday after it concluded that the anti-malarial drugs may not be effective to cure the virus infections and lead to greater risks than any potential benefits.
"At this point, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine are just like any other approved drug in the United States. They may be used in hospital, they may be used in out-patient, they may be used at home, all subject to a doctor's prescription," Azar said.
"In fact, the FDA's removal of the Emergency Use Authorization takes away what had been a significant misunderstanding by many that had made people think that somehow it could only be used in a hospital setting, and we've tried to make that clear throughout," he said in response to a question.
During a White House media appearance with President Donald Trump, Azar asserted that HCQ was approved in the United States.
"If a doctor wishes to prescribe it, working with a patient, they may prescribe it for any purpose that they wish to do so. And, this (FDA's decision) actually removes a potential barrier to them," the health secretary said.
The FDA said its decision in this regard was based on new information, including clinical trial data results, that have led it conclude that the drugs may not be effective in treating COVID-19 and that its potential benefits for such use do not outweigh its known and potential risks.
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Well I guess that’s good news! Thanks for printing this, Seekanfind!!!
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not in states like NY they can’t- not unless they are in hospital on ventilators
They always could. Doctors prescribe stuff off-label all the time, no matter what some stupid liberal tries to tell you.
We learned that the original approval for emergency use was actually an act of sabotage.
The emergency approval limited prescriptions of Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to hospitalized patients who were dying or close to it.
It was rigged for failure.
The headlines printed “Emergency Approval of Hydroxychloroquine revoked!”
This was deliberately misleading. The removal of the emergency approval actually took away they restriction that a prescription be written only for very sick patients admitted to a hospital.
The removal now allows MDs to prescribe for all patients diagnosed with SARS-COV-2 or COVID-19 as a prophylactic or as a treatment. In fact, an MD can prescribe HCQ as a prophylactic for patients who test negative for the coronavirus and are otherwise asymptomatic. For example, a healthcare worker or frontline grocery clerk may take HCQ to guard against infection and development of symptoms just as travelers take HCQ as a prophylactic when traveling to countries with heavy malaria exposure.
And since this has started MDs are learning the importance of Zinc and sometimes Azithrmycin (Zpak).
Dr. Zelenko has an excellent analogy that all people can understand.
HCQ = Pistol
Zinc = Bullet
Zpak = Bullet proof vest
This is good news since I just tested positive for Coronavirus. I was told to self quarantine for 14 days and if my temperature went above 100.4 to go to an emergency room. This doesn’t make any sense to me. I have other symptoms, headache, dry harsh cough, lethargy, light headedness, temperature of 100.2. It doesn’t feel SAFE to me that with all these symptoms I should wait until my temp. goes up .2 degrees. I think the Dr. should be prescribing HCG right now, in order to get a head start on this. Why wait until I have to go into a hospital to get treatment??
THANK YOU! I was trying to figure out what this means.
But pharmacies are refusing to fill the prescriptions unless the doctor reveals what disease the patients have. Despite HIPPA laws.
I have family members who have taken HCQ daily for years. But suddenly they have roadblocks keeping them from getting it.
Please, Please, Please.... for your own sake CALL EVERY DR YOU CAN, and see if they will prescribed HCQ+ZINC to you NOW that you have tested positive! DO NOT WAIT!!!!! That is PURE BS!!!!!! Whoever told you that, I don't care if it was a brain surgeon, should not be risking YOUR life over this simple script!
That is EXACTLY what I’m going to do tomorrow morning. I mean, I’m sitting here thinking why am I being told to wait until my temperature goes up or that I’m being told to wait 2 weeks for ANYTHING. I’ve already tested positive. It’s time to get some pro active drugs in my system! This is NO TIME to wait and see.
Thank you!
L8r
Hydroxychloroquine works for the China virus when prescribed within 5 days of confirmed symptoms and/or a confirmed nasal swab test, AND when part of a “cocktail”, prescribed together with either azithromycin or doxycycline, AND with Zinc.
Nearly EVERY study showing no positive or adverse affects from prescribing hydroxychloroquine is on patients who were in one or more of the following groups:
(1) ONLY prescribing hydroxychloroquine and NOT adding the antibiotic NOR the zinc;
(2) infected past the 5 days and already very lung-compromised and/or /hospitalized;
(3) immuno-compromised, and/or had pre-existing and serious pulmonary, cardio, or diabetes related illnesses;
(4) was already intubated.
Not saying it won’t help those patients (2) - (4), but hard research of other doctors reports shows its less effective in those cases.
EVERY study whether formal or anecdotal from hundreds (if not thousands) of physicians prescribing the hydroxychloroquine “cocktail” within 5 days of infection, on ambulatory patients with no serious co-morbidities showed > 90% recovery rate, with virtually no need for hospitalization, and very few deaths.
Hydroxychloroquine’s possible adverse effect on heart sinus rhythm has been known for decades as it’s long been prescribed for malaria, Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. If you have a coronary condition, speak with your cardiologist. If you are taking hydroxychloroquine (or azithromycin which can have the same effect), and your heart starts thumping, call your doctor.
AFAIK those cardio interactions are rare. Much rarer than the 80% mortality rate for virus patients who are intubated…(Search “Northwell intubated”).
I am not a doctor. But I had the virus, was not getting better after a few days, and then was prescribed the hydroxychloroquine “cocktail” as described above, and have recovered from the virus.
If you are confirmed positive somehow get a pulse oximeter and test yourself 3-4x/ day (write it down) - if before the 5th day your SPO2 dips towards or below 92, find a doctor who will prescribe the cocktail.
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transcript:
15 Jun: White House: Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion on Fighting for America’s Seniors
THE PRESIDENT: I’d like to ask Alex, maybe, to discuss that.
SECRETARY AZAR: Sure. So just to clarify: Your statement there, I don’t think, was quite accurate in what the FDA’s action was. The FDA, at the request of BARDA, which is an agency within HHS, withdrew an Emergency Use Authorization for a product that we had acquired into the National Stockpile by donation from Bayer of hydroxy- — of chloroquine that was manufactured in Pakistan. And the EUA — the Emergency Use Authorization — was restricted for hospital use — in-patient hospital use of the product, with the FDA finding that they don’t see enough data to support hospital-based use for those who are the most extreme cases of patients who have been hospitalized. They took that restriction off. They took the Emergency Use Authorization off.
At this point, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are just like any other approved drug in the United States. They may be used in hospital, they may be used in out-patient, they may be used at home — all subject to a doctor’s prescription. In fact, the FDA’s removal of the EUA takes away what had been a significant misunderstanding by many that had made people think that somehow it could only be used in a hospital setting. And we’ve tried to make that clear throughout.
It’s a drug. It’s approved in the United States. Has been for decades. If a doctor wishes to prescribe it, working with a patient, they may prescribe it for any purpose that they wish to do so. And this actually removes a potential barrier to that.
THE PRESIDENT: So it actually un-complicates it —
SECRETARY AZAR: It does.
THE PRESIDENT: — in a way. And I think that’s probably — your question was a very inaccurately stated question.
Q No, I didn’t mean to — I didn’t mean to pose it inaccurately. I believe what it said specifically was that it’s no longer reasonable to consider it an appropriate treatment.
SECRETARY AZAR: Only in the hospital. It said the data in the hospital setting was not supported. We continue to study in out-patient settings, as well as preventive. That data is not yet in.
Q Are you suggesting that data in the hospital setting is not something you would take seriously?
SECRETARY AZAR: No, that’s why the FDA acted. It was that they looked at the data and they removed the Emergency Use Authorization for hospital-setting use of the chloroquine that was the Bayer product that had been donated from Pakistan...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-discussion-fighting-americas-seniors/
16 Jun: Livemint: Press Trust of India: Doctors can still prescribe HCQ to patients, says US health Secretary
Doctors can still prescribe anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to patients, US Health Secretary Alex Azar said, hours after the FDA withdrew the emergency use authorisation of chloroquine and HCQ in the treatment of COVID 19 patients...
“At this point, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine are just like any other approved drug in the United States. They may be used in hospital, they may be used in out-patient, they may be used at home, all subject to a doctor’s prescription,” Azar said.
“In fact, the FDA’s removal of the Emergency Use Authorization takes away what had been a significant misunderstanding by many that had made people think that somehow it could only be used in a hospital setting, and we’ve tried to make that clear throughout,” he said in response to a question.
During a White House media appearance with President Donald Trump, Azar asserted that HCQ was approved in the United States.
“If a doctor wishes to prescribe it, working with a patient, they may prescribe it for any purpose that they wish to do so. And, this (FDA’s decision) actually removes a potential barrier to them,” the health secretary said...
Azar described the media interpretation of FDA’s letter as INACCURATE.
“With the FDA finding that they don’t see enough data to support hospital-based use, for those who are the most extreme cases of patients who have been hospitalised, they took that restriction off. They took the Emergency Use Authorization off,” he said.
Azar asserted that FDA said its data in the hospital setting was not supportive. “We continue to study in out-patient settings, as well as preventative. That data is not yet in,” he added.
https://www.livemint.com/news/world/doctors-can-still-prescribe-hcq-to-patients-says-us-health-secretary-11592273755247.html
My doctor won’t!
Had my checkup 2 days ago.....
....asked her opinion about Hydroxychloroquin, etc....
....she emphatically said NO!
....and gave me multiple print outs against it.....including one naming Trump!
She is not my regular doctor.....( an emergency took the other one for the da)
After the leftisits cities see their peak and fall. It has peaked more slowly in rural areas.
Thanks for this information!
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