Posted on 05/02/2020 1:54:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Over three weeks ago, hydroxychloroquine was all the rage in MAGA world, despite flawed and scattered evidence about whether the drug could help cure coronavirus. Now there is another drug, remdesivir, with positive early scientific data.
Much of MAGA world wants little to do with it.
At first, it may seem like a head-scratching response. President Donald Trump’s base has been quick to trumpet any potential solutions to the coronavirus pandemic - especially those Trump himself promotes - regardless of the red flags from medical experts. But with remdesivir, it’s the Trump-boosting pundits who are raising the red flags, even as the president expresses optimism.
Indeed, the same segment of the right that claimed scientists and the media were deliberately downplaying hydroxychloroquine in order to hurt Trump’s standing are now the ones downplaying remdesivir. On Fox News, Laura Ingraham suggested that remdesivir, as a newer drug being produced by the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, could be unsafe and expensive. Those who initially helped raise the profile of hydroxychloroquine raised doubts about the remdesivir studies.
The unexpected reaction appears to stem from the differences in how the two drugs came into the public spotlight. Hydroxychloroquine bubbled up through the MAGA grassroots - little-known investors promoted it online, got on Fox News and suddenly the president was talking about it from the White House. Remdesivir’s progress came through a government-funded trial that had the blessing of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the bête noire of Trump hardliners who blame the government’s top infectious disease expert for undermining the president and causing unnecessary economic damage with his social-distancing guidelines.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I can’t imagine any resistance to any drug that works. I don’t know what this woman is talking about.
Being out performed by placebos did tarnish it’s luster.
Have seen some disturbing stories about remdesivir side effects
Reduced Male fertility being one
Not to mention the Chinese may own the patent ( they filed on Jan 21, one day after finally admitting it was human human transmission)
SOB’s
Just Prog projection. What she really means is she doesn’t want HCQ to work, because other than cost and the Soros Gates collusion I have heard no one on our right side say they don’t want remdesevir to fail.
Is ANYONE getting gilead’s drug when they are first diagnosed with Covid and not in the hospital..yeah didnt think so.
You need something that can be given Day 1..not once you have to be hospitalized
Apparently Tina Nguyen’s medical care is being subsidized by MAGA worlders that have to pay for their own.
Why politicize this at all? Test the drugs, and forget who happened to like or dislike them.
Let’s see. $1,000 a dose compared to $.84 and the results a magnitude better for HCQ. Want to see them scream? Have Trump require all the drug manufacturers to produce the drug under the Defense Production Act at cost and distribute it for free .... see which CDC, FDA, NIH weenies scream the loudest.
> “Over three weeks ago, hydroxychloroquine was all the rage in MAGA world, ***despite flawed and scattered evidence*** about whether the drug could help cure coronavirus.”
Stupid Politico writer.
There is no acceptable data subject to statistical test on remdesivir efficacy for COVID-19, none. But stupid writers got to please their stupid progressive editors.
Yeah, the whole "serious liver damage" thingee is a little off-putting - unless you're an airhead "jernalist" who swallows the vomit from her Lefty handlers without question.
Note: this little info-ho is going on the HCQ disser list.
Complete and utter bullsh**!. MAGA world supports any drug that works. There seems to be no bottom to their barrel of hate.
Tina has a TEENY MIND, a TEENY HEART, and a HUGE HATRED for us!!
Tina needs to get a hobby. That level of derangement may not be reversable.
What she needs is a rubber room
“. What she really means is she doesn’t want HCQ to work,”
****
BINGO.
Any article from Polutico, you already know is a Trump hit-piece. TDS is powerful in this one..
especially those Trump himself promotes - regardless of the red flags from medical experts.
The President has a conversation with the public. He talks about what he has learned and knows. The press twists it to their own liking. If one concentrates on the past it is evident to us what the press has been doing TO us for the past 50 years. Trump fights back and exposes them. That is why they continually try to twist his words.
No logical person would take the fish tank cleaner. Logical people can hear and read that hydroxy is effective. Logical folks know and can read up on what the President was talking about in regard to UV light and disinfectant.
We know now why the libs want to control education. It is to make one illogical and unable to reason.
Can't say it's all of MAGA world but read some of the threads here.
There are plenty of people claiming it's a Fauci/Gilead conspiracy to push the expensive proprietary treatment over the equally good or better generic drug.
I know that's conspiracy MAGA, not the whole movement, but it's substantial.
POLLUTICO is NOTHING but a WASTELAND of DUMBASSES!
Get to the bottom sentence
25% in study suffered severe side effects - like organ damage
https://www.biospace.com/article/data-from-gilead-s-compassionate-use-of-remdesivir-for-covid-19-looks-promising/
Needs more research on fertility effects.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.21.050104v1
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