Posted on 05/20/2020 9:10:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump made headlines Monday when he voluntarily told reporters that he was taking hydroxychloroquine, which Trump has frequently touted as a "game changer" for coronavirus. This announcement was the latest development in Trump's weeks-long campaign in support of the drug, despite several reports and studies that have questioned its effectiveness in treating coronavirus patients.
Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-malarial drug often used to treat autoimmune diseases like lupus.
The President, who has consistently tested negative for coronavirus, appeared to suggest he was taking the drug as a way to prevent getting infected, something he claimed frontline health workers are doing as well.
"You look at doctors and nurses. A lot of them are taking it as a preventative," Trump said.
Facts First:
There are several ongoing studies in the US to see if hydroxychloroquine successfully prevents frontline medical workers from getting infected by the virus. However, the Food and Drug Administration has not approved hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure against coronavirus, nor is it authorized as treatment for coronavirus outside of hospitals. In fact, the FDA cautioned against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for Covid-19 outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.
CURRENT STUDIES:
In early April, the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan launched the first large-scale study in the US of hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness in preventing or impeding Covid-19 in frontline workers. The 3,000 health care workers and first responders in southeast Michigan selected for the study each received unmarked vials with either a daily dose of hydroxychloroquine, a once-a-week dose, or a placebo.
After eight weeks, the three groups will be compared to see if the medication had any effect. Preliminary results are expected possibly in August.
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Comical any person affiliated with that network could have "fact check" associated with them.
Fact check this. It’s my summer answer. Summer taking it, summer not.
I’d like to see Schumer, Pelosi, and their ilk, in and out of the media sign a pledge that they will not take HCQ until proven under double blind studies.
I’m not spending a lot of time with trash like this.
President Trump makes the claim that a lot of front line people are already using HCQ.
So they “fact check” him.
How?
By reviewing a lot of studies to explore the efficacy of HCQ.
That isn’t fact checking the President’s claim. At all.
That pledge would not be worth anything. They lie.
The fact checking they is on studies without all the other components: Z-pack and Zinc.
There have been numerous studies throughout the world on HCQ....I am sure the results are available since the reports named names. Haven’t American Medical Scientists reviewed the French, Germany, England and Australian test results that were published.. The physician in New York tested hundreds of patients using HCQ and Zinc Sulfate with amazing positive results. If I get virus, the New York doctor that did early positive testing is the first person I will call.
True. They cite flawed studies and so that’s bogus.
But my point is that Trump says “People are taking HCQ” and they fact check him by trying to ascertain if people SHOULD be taking HCQ. That’s an entirely different claim.
If I say “some people eat eggs for breakfast”, I don’t want someone to call me a liar because eggs might possibly raise cholesterol. That’s not the point.
There needs o be a “fact check” ran on liberals to see if liberals know the definition of “fact”......
President Trump could have just as easily advocated taking vitamin C to help ward off Covid19.
If he had, we would have been inundated with the same kinds of dire warnings about the potential dangers of taking vitamin C. There would be reports of people supposedly dying from it. We would be hearing how reckless it is for the President (not a doctor!) to be giving medical advice.
This whole “controversy” is stupid.
I read about frontliners all over the world taking HQC weeks ago.
So buried in the article is the answer - some are and some aren't. Had to dig for it.
It’s amazing how willfully ignorant the people we get our news from are.
They aren’t willfully ignorant. They are fully aware of both sides of the conversation. They simply pick and choose which portions of the conversation they want to emphasize, then they use words in clever sentences to make the point that they want. They were omit, shade or exaggerate or outright lie to get te result they want. Sometimes the truth is embedded because most people actually know the truth and because people actually understand the language.
I saw a doctor on TV several weeks ago saying that he was treating Covid patients and was not afraid of getting infected because he was taking hydroxychloroquine.
After that I thought several other doctors saying that they would take it if they thought they might get infected
If Hydroxychloroquine is so dangerous, where are all the dead lupus patients?
And Fauci knew HCQ functioned this way against coronaviruses 15 years ago. His own department published that fact.
Partisan Media Shills update.
You just partially defined the term ‘Willfully Ignorant’. The underlying evilness is immense.
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