Posted on 06/24/2020 7:54:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
French doctor and virologist Didier Raoult, whose use of malaria medication hydroxychloroquine at a treatment for Covid-19 has attracted worldwide attention and controversy, was to respond to questions of a parliamentary committee investigating France’s response to the epidemic.
The inquiry of 32 lawmakers from different political parties was launched last month to “learn lessons” about France’s handling of the Covid-19 epidemic.
After looking into face masks, the panel was to turn to hydroxychloroquine, a malaria medication championed as a treatment for Covid-19 by Raoult, who was to respond in late afternoon.
“What we want to understand from Mr. Raoult is how he managed to follow a policy of mass testing in Marseille”, a city which had “mortality rates well beneath” those elsewhere in the country, said right-wing lawmaker Damien Abad on Tuesday.
Raoult, who heads the infectious diseases department of the university hospital in Marseille, became widely known to the public inside and outside France by promoting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 in late February, just before the epidemics were taking off in Europe.
He has proved a divisive figure in media, cultivating a shaggy-haired, anti-establishment persona with a penchant for controversial remarks, claiming in early February the coronavirus was “not so mean” and subsequently assuring there would be no second wave of infection.
Raoult’s claims about hydroxychloroquine are derived from two small studies combining the derivative of the chloroquine molecule, used to treat lupus and malaria, with antibiotic azithromycine.
The doctor said in late February the drug was “probably the least expensive and simplest way to treat the coronavirus”.
The claims have met with mixed reviews among scientists and health officials, with some heaping praise on Raoult and others objecting that the molecule’s efficiency has not been proven and that it could engender dangerous side effects.
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What an asshole author. Really?
“ Raoult’s claims about hydroxychloroquine are derived from two small studies combining the derivative of the chloroquine molecule, used to treat lupus and malaria, with antibiotic azithromycine.“
Well he finally gets there. But just another hostile, left wing hit piece.
“ “I treated more than 3,700 patients with this medication, with 0.5 percent mortality and no cardiac toxicity,” he told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview published Tuesday. “What more do you want?”“
They desperately want hydroxychloroquine not to work.
No bias there. Nope, none whatsoever.
The plane, ... the plane. The zinc, ... the zinc. What happened to the zinc?
As far as the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine:
“I treated more than 3,700 patients with this medication, with 0.5 percent mortality and no cardiac toxicity,” he told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview published Tuesday. “What more do you want?”
Proper clinical methodology or not, he's got a point.
What happened to the zinc?
People are buying it on their own. Saw a sign limiting zinc and vitamin C purchase to one bottle per family.
Months ago some TV station was telling people not to use cures they read about on the internet. Instead look to the government. The same government that said don’t wear masks is now mandating them.
RFI - French Public Radio - that explains the amateurish and biased journalism. taxpayer money shouldn’t be going to any of these outfits.
LOL...how 'divisive' the TRUTH is!
Hydroxychoralqunidene has been used for many years for Malaria prophylaxis and treatment. I myself took it when I worked in Nigeria as did all others that worked on my drilling rig. The minor risk profile is well known. The drug was available on the rig at the breakfast table in the mess. I did not use theirs as I already had my own from my physician in the USA that I took with me.
If you have a QT prolongation (a cardiac electrical conduction function) you might not take it but that is a decision of your physician. If you have a G6PD deficiency you should not take it. It could give you a fatal hemolysis. This is a rare condition but easily identified via testing.
I took this drug for years. I was 17 years in the oilfields world wide. I took this drug a lot. Went back to school again and became a clinical pharmacist now retired.
Thank you for posting this. Dr. Raoul is a true hero who along with Dr. Zelenko should receive the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Both have been viciously attacked in the fake media backed by fake science.
I invite others to look into the most recent controversy dealing with reopening states and accounting of new positives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3858906/posts?page=54#54
He has proved a divisive figure in media, cultivating a shaggy-haired, anti-establishment persona with a penchant for controversial remarks...
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Use to be the Left prided themselves as being antiestablishment, but now the Left is the establishment, the Left will not allow any discussion.
I have no personal experience relevant to the efficacy of HCQ against the SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan flu.
However, I’ve taken it twice for malaria prophylaxis. My doctor prescribed it without hesitation or concern about side effects and no special tests related to potential side effects.
There are a few things I do know about HCQ:
1) It is no more dangerous than aspirin or Tylenol, and probably less so. The only contraindication on the CDC website is that it should not be used by people with psoriasis.
2) It was demonstrated in multiple studies to be effective in vitro against the original SARS coronavirus as far back as 2005.
I am certain that all reports regarding it being “dangerous” is FAKE NEWS. Certainly the NJEM and the Lancet are finally aware of this fact.
“They desperately want hydroxychloroquine not to work.”
Because that would mean the pandemic is over, along with all the tyrannical social engineering, command and control of everyone and everything, Trump hate, (since it is all his fault), etc. and would result in a much feared American economic resurgence.
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