Posted on 04/06/2020 9:28:25 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Axios has a report out this morning detailing a significant confrontation that apparently took place on Sunday between Peter Navarro and Dr. Anthony Fauci during the meeting of the Coronavirus Task Force. The subject of the argument detailed in the report was hydroxychloroquine and Fauci’s ongoing campaign to pretend that this cheap and plentiful medication has not been proven effective against the Wuhan Virus.
Navarro, who, like President Trump is well aware of the large and constantly-growing body of proof that HC is indeed proving to be an almost 100%-effective cure for this viral plague that China unleashed on the world, has obviously grown weary of Fauci’s nonsense, and decided to call him out on it in that meeting.
Excerpt from the Axios report:
Toward the end of the meeting, Hahn began a discussion of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which Trump believes could be a “game-changer” against the coronavirus.
Hahn gave an update about the drug and what he was seeing in different trials and real-world results. Then Navarro got up. He brought over a stack of folders and dropped them on the table. People started passing them around. “And the first words out of his mouth are that the studies that he’s seen, I believe they’re mostly overseas, show ‘clear therapeutic efficacy,'” said a source familiar with the conversation. “Those are the exact words out of his mouth.” Navarro’s comments set off a heated exchange about how the Trump administration and the president ought to talk about the malaria drug, which Fauci and other public health officials stress is unproven to combat COVID-19.
Fauci pushed back against Navarro, saying that there was only anecdotal evidence that hydroxychloroquine works against the coronavirus. Researchers have said studies out of France and China are inadequate because they did not include control groups. Fauci and others have said much more data is needed to prove that hydroxychloroquine is effective against the coronavirus. As part of his role, Navarro has been trying to source hydroxychloroquine from around the world. He’s also been trying to ensure that there are enough domestic production capabilities inside the U.S. Fauci’s mention of anecdotal evidence “just set Peter off,” said one of the sources. Navarro pointed to the pile of folders on the desk, which included printouts of studies on hydroxychloroquine from around the world.
Navarro said to Fauci, “That’s science, not anecdote,” said another of the sources. Navarro started raising his voice, and at one point accused Fauci of objecting to Trump’s travel restrictions, saying, “You were the one who early on objected to the travel restrictions with China,” saying that travel restrictions don’t work. (Navarro was one of the earliest to push the China travel ban.)
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Please take the time to follow the link to the Axios report and read it in full. You will be glad you did.
The thing to remember about this joyful incident is that Navarro is a guy who President Trump trusts. Dr. Fauci, due to his own self-serving antics over the past three months, is not.
Meanwhile, we have this happy report from Fox News this morning, detailing how at least 4,000 Wuhan Virus patients in New York are now being successfully treated with HC in combination with zinc and antibiotics:
As many as 4,000 seriously ill coronavirus patients in New York are being treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, state health officials say.
President Trump has touted hydroxychloroquine as a potential life-saver, although there is no widespread scientific evidence to date showing it helps battle COVID-19.
But Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month said health care providers in the state would be using the drug in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax, or azithromycin, for some last-ditch cases, based on potentially promising research.
“Time is of the essence,’’ Albany University Public Health Dean David Holtgrave, who is on the state’s research team, said in a statement.
A state Health Department official said the DOH has shipped doses of hydroxychloroquine to 56 hospitals across New York, distributing enough “to treat 4,000 patients to date.”
Patients have received doses as part of four- or 10-day regimens, officials said.
So, much as Dr. Fauci and the corrupt news media would prefer otherwise, Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo obviously wants his citizens to have the best chance to survive the contraction of this virus. Good for him.
See? The news isn’t all bad. Sometimes, you just have to look for it.
That is all.
Sort of true.
What is true is that the cocktail works. The next new problem is supplying enough of it to just tell people, “Your kits are in the mail. When you get them, start taking the Zinc and HCG does on the sheet, then go back to living the way you used to.”
Everybody getting it and beating it is far cheaper than testing and vaccinating everyone. Any anything Bill Gates was a part of is not going near me, period. Guy is a sociopath.
As opposed to a large majority of the non-media who already know that Fibbin-ouchy IS an incompetent clown?
Is that what people are referring when they talk about “3-dimensional chess”? Trump appeared to be completely pinned down by a Fauci and a Blyx, but suddenly a Navarro swoops down from the upper board, taking out the Fauci, and freeing him. The globalist team is gobsmacked; they weren’t watching their 12.
The Insurance Companies already do, to a large degree.
Isn't third party payer wonderful?
Dr. Fauci is a by-the-book type who is going to want to see clinical trials over the course of three years along with complete data on how much hydropchloroquinine mice need to eat before they get cancer. By the time the FDA provides Fauci with the proof he needs, we will have returned to a 19th-century standard of living.
Not a big fan but Dr oz said similar on fox this morning.
“Fauci is a FRAUD!! A HILLIARY LOVING COUP PLOTTER”!
He certainly is. He’s tied in with the Clinton Foundation, WHO, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and more. He has an agenda.
Fauci and company will never accept the fact that HQ works. Academicians are till railing against Dr Atkins of the diet revolution fame because he’s a mere doctor. Meanwhile millions of people have lost weight. It’s the same thing. Unless you have the proper credentials, they just won’t listen.
Thank you Mr. Navarro
Why hold it back for "last-ditch" cases? Why not give it when the virus is confirmed in a hospital patient before they get to that stage? Why make the patient suffer? And while we're at it, why not give it to the patient when first diagnosed BEFORE hospitalization?
As a 77 year-old senior in generally good health, if I get the virus I already have the dose along with z-pac and zinc down on paper and will ask my doctor to prescribe it. I don't want to be one of Dr. Doom's guinea-pig study patients.
Follow the money. Check the good doctor’s bank account and stock portfolio...
“I’d be willing to bet Dr. Faucu is taking the drug to prevent getting sick”.
Great point and I’d bet on it, too. He has an agenda and it’s not a good one. The last time I saw him speak it was obvious that he’s a deceiver and manipulator. The president will get rid of him when the time is right.
LA doctor: COVID-19 patients go from ‘very ill’ to ‘symptom-free’ in 8 to 12 hours using hydroxychloroquine and zinc
https://abc7.com/health/la-doctor-seeing-success-with-hydroxychloroquine-to-treat-covid-19/6079864/
Hey Cuomo- there is NO reason to continue denying this to your citizens!
There is enough circumstantial evidence to prove this drug works- there is no sound reason to keep saying that there isn’t enough evidence to prove it- The world has proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that this drug is safe, and works dramatically! Cuomo needs to be sued for denying everyone the chance at life saving drugs!
“He has an agenda”
Becoming clearer every day.
Sadly, I fear Dr. Fauci has traded his doctor brain in... and now has gone full bureaucrat... where process is more important than product, no matter the crisis! He clearly values his clinical studies, protocols and red tape over actually helping the country recover... both from the virus and economically. He’s lost in the bureaucratic process weeds... he sees nothing more important than his “studies” even over the citizens of the country!
This is Holy Week... the good doctor would probably oppose Jesus healing the sick, lame and blind because the Savior doesn’t have the proper medical licences and credentials... and then demand Jesus’ cease and desist until His Healing Touch had completed the required clinical 18 month “clinical trials.”
O Lord save us from the “experts” and egotistical doctors! O Lord please grant our president Your Holy Wisdom and Peace.
Especially since we don't have one of those 30-40% effective vaccines yet.
Not to get into how spending a few Billion$ on testing/yr going forward is << Pelousy's Trillion$ of graft.
Sit down old man and read a book or play chess with your wife.
He’s tied in with the Clinton Foundation, WHO, Bill Gates, Big Pharma and more. He has an agenda and it’s not a good agenda.
Fauci has been wrong at almost every turn in this sad affair. Makes one wonder what motivates the man. Just a little over a month ago he was saying in print that the virus would be no worse than a common flu. Now we hear that he was against the travel ban. Then he drastically revises his predictions to an end of the world scenario and finally his objection to use a drug with no significant side effects without a lengthy medical trial that will make the whole point moot regardless of the trial’s outcome. His actions paint a picture of a man who is at best in over his head and at worst an evil villain. What medical trial can he point to that justifies killing the economy in an attempt to stop a pandemic?
He’ll probably be gone soon. Trump knows where he’s coming from.
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