Posted on 04/27/2020 8:30:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The World Health Organization (WHO) annually publishes its “Model list of Essential Medicines,” a chronicle of top-rated treatments that are already tested and approved for use globally.
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ)—a medicine touted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by some doctors around the world and by the Trump administration—appears on that list, which according to the WHO catalogs “the most efficacious, safe and cost-effective medicines for priority conditions.”
The WHO states, “Priority conditions are selected on the basis of current and estimated future public health relevance, and potential for safe and cost-effective treatment.” Certainly a media-hyped, global pandemic that has produced more than 950,000 confirmed cases and 53,000 deaths just in the United States alone would qualify as a “priority condition.” So, it’s astonishing to see the head of the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) voice opposition to treatment with HCQ.
Rick Bright, director of BARDA, was removed from his post last week and reassigned after objecting to efforts to recommend HCQ as an effective treatment for COVID-19. He issued a statement after his departure, in which he labeled HCQ an “unproven drug” and said treatment with HCQ had “potentially serious risks.”
He also insisted “that the government invest the billions of dollars allocated by Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic into safe and scientifically vetted solutions, and not in drugs, vaccines and other technologies that lack scientific merit.”
Dr. Bright’s definition of “scientific merit” must be different from the rest of the world’s, because even if we discount the WHO listing HCQ as safe and effective under specialist medical supervision, HCQ was already tested and approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for medical use in the United States back in 1955.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION MODEL LIST OF ESSENTIAL DRUGS:
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/325771/WHO-MVP-EMP-IAU-2019.06-eng.pdf
“....a medicine touted as an effective treatment for COVID-19 by some doctors around the world and by the Trump administration...”
That’s another damned lie. The exact quote from the Guardian was: On Sunday Trump again touted hydroxychloroquine, saying “there are some very strong, powerful signs” of its potential as a Covid-19 therapy.”
He did say take it, it is the answer, or anything other than testing is positive.
rwood
It’s to cheap. How are politicians going to get what they want from a cheap and fast cure?
Indians in Peru etc used the bark of the fever tree or Jesuit bark or cinchona bark (same thing) for all sorts of things, including malaria. They cured the Spaniards with it several hundred years ago. The Jesuits took the bark back to Europe and some people who didn’t appreciate Catholics wouldn’t use it because it was called Jesuit Bark. Sounds like the media and Democrats of today.
To stop the return of manufacturing of products back to the US that went to China. China backers here who’s family members are making millions from China through their political connections will be hit hard are also claiming that Trump’s alleged stock ownership in a quinine pills maker claim its a controlling interest in a product to be totally ineffective and when used requires a severe restriction of movement when near a possible carrier known as a shutdown because of its rapid transmission .
I believe that the death toll is so much lower than expected because they found this drugs efficacy fairly early.
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