Posted on 05/28/2020 9:46:58 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Spanish health watchdog has said it sees no reason to stop the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), the potentially dangerous medicine touted as a Covid-19 treatment by the US president.
Several European nations, including France, Italy and Belgium, have decided to suspend prescription of the anti-malaria drug, which came to international prominence after US President Donald Trump said the medicine could be used to tackle Covid-19 and that he himself was taking it.
The Spanish health watchdog, AEMPS, said the paper published by the magazine Lancet, which warned about health risks associated with HCQ, was not conclusive enough to stop testing it at Spanish hospitals. “It is an observational study, not a clinical trial,” a spokesman for AEMPS explained.
HCQ, which is also used to treat autoimmune diseases like lupus, has been widely prescribed in Spain to Covid-19 patients, with the country enduring one of the worst outbreaks of the disease in Europe.
According to El Pais, 85 percent of patients taken to hospital with the coronavirus received the medicine.
The Lancet study found a higher mortality rate among Covid-19 patients who had received HCQ. The World Health Organization (WHO) decided to pause clinical trials of the medicine for coronavirus treatment following the report’s publication.
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for the time being you MIGHT be able to still get it through this telemedicine site.
I havent tried it.
https://corsination.com/covid-19/
the side effects of this medicine have been well known to doctors for decades. millions of patients have taken it for other conditions
side effects do exist but this is true for almost all medicines and doctors take these issues into account when prescribing. there is NO reason for any government to ban the use of these little pills when a competent doctor determines they will help a patient recover. no reason at all!
The Spanish can-do attitude.
An obviously unnecessary jab. This can be said about ANY medication, even OTC meds.
Too much aspirin has side effects. Too much dihydrogen monoxide (water) given to babies rather than formula or mother's milk can kill them.
If the sale of HCQ put money in the pockets and Soros and Gates the media would be lauding it as a “miracle cure.”
that dihydroxymonoxide sounds terribly ghastly, killing innocent little babies in their cribs!
it should be BANNED immediately!
The study was basically aborted by a thumbs-down from the French government, on the basis of that criminally incompetent Lancet study. He finds the famous Lancet study so faulty that it should never have been published... http://tiny.cc/qiftpz
With as many professional witnesses to the efficacy of that drug, people routinely get the death penalty over much less convincing evidence.
http://covexit.com/a-look-at-covid-mortality-in-paris-marseille-new-york-and-montreal/
Duh, just look at the graph in this link. It works well especially if given early but I am sure that the heart problems were with people near death.
The FDA dis a similar thing saying it should not be used outside of a hospital setting because of the heart problems of people probably already in the ICUs so the effect is to make it hard to apply this early intervention strategy at the urgent care facility level. Like Zelenko’s strategy, if that is followed the outcome will be much better.
But heart problems have never occurred since 1955 when used for malaria, lupus and RA so it is safe and effective when applied early.
Here Didier Raoult responds to the Lancet article, in French but you can use google translate to read it.
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