Posted on 10/01/2020 9:46:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Australian scientists have vowed to continue investigating whether taking hydroxychloroquine can stop people becoming infected with coronavirus.
Researchers from the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne believe the drug could prevent people catching SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that causes COVID-19.
Hundreds of health workers in NSW and Victoria have been given the drug in the Institute's COVID SHIELD trial in an effort to try and determine its effectiveness as a prophylactic.
Hydroxychloroquine was brought to public attention when US President Donald Trump said he was using the malaria drug to 'protect' himself from coronavirus.
Prescriptions for the drug subsequently skyrocketed, before it was removed from major testing trials as it proved to be ineffective in reducing the impact of COVID-19.
Scientific journal The Lancet published and later retracted a study based on false data that claimed coronavirus cases taking hydroxychloroquine had an increased death rate.
COVID SHIELD co-lead investigator Marc Pelligrini said researchers were not considering the drug as a treatment, but as a preventative.
'The evidence that shows that the drug doesn’t particularly help with treatment really never deterred us because we always thought that ... if the drug did have a role in preventing people from getting COVID-19, it has to be even before they were exposed to SARS-CoV-2,' he told The Australian.
Test tube studies have found hydroxychloroquine can work to impede the replication of COVID-19 and discourage proliferation.
Claire Lobb is an emergency care nurse at The Alfred Hospital and among about 230 frontline healthcare workers signed up for the four-month trial.
'Hydroxychloroquine is a drug that is cheap and readily available, with very few side effects. If there is a chance this drug could help prevent frontline healthcare workers from getting COVID-19, I think it is important that we do a proper clinical trial
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I wish I could find out why Trump is silent on Hydroxychloroquine, when he used to be a huge advocate?
Look hydroxychloroquine with quickly discovered to be very effective
India has administered hundreds of millions of doses the jury is not out on this and the fact that they’re still needs to be articles of this tired just go to show the disingenuous of this entire pandemic and the degree in which these one world government tapes are willing to lie to your face to suppress information search that hydroxychloroquine works effectively against COVID-19
Furthermore the Pharmaca medical establishment has been lying through their teeth for decades the colloidal silver is not highly effective against all viruses and bacteria both internally and externally this lied to take continue to propagate causes needless death and suffering upon millions of people silver has been approved and 25,000 products for external use and somehow they say it doesn’t work internally only because you can make it for free at home
Whos is leading the disinformation fight against Hydroxychloriquine?
Fauci?
Bill Gates? (trying to develop his own medicine)
It angers me because African countries which were supposed to be devastated by Covid-19 are virtually immune, possibly due to the extensive use of anti-malaria medicine, Hydroxychloriquine.
Trump brought it out for public consumption. Studies have proven it works. Many physicians have said it works, so Trump has already been proven correct. There’s nothing to say about it anymore.
Brain dead democrats will believe what their masters tell them. They aren’t allowed to think on their own.
“Scientists” are saying this? Then it must be “science,” right?
Never mind the Daily Wail labeling HCQ as a “controversial drug”. Pure TDS.
Am extremely unhappy about this. As you know, some States are quietly reversing the ban including Minnesota!. This person in Lansing, Whitmer, will not do this.
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Okay, he’s also building the wall, reducing regulations etc, but he still talks about those things! He will NOT mention Hydroxychloroquine, and it’s just plain weird!
I read online that Africa has few coronavirus cases because they take Hydroxochloroquine(sp?) to prevent malaria. I think if it is available it wouldn’t hurt to take it????
I'm not sure this is true. All most all forms of malaria are resistant to HCQ because it has been used for so long. Other drugs are now more commonly used in Africa.
For a while it was very difficult to find in overseas pharmacies. The supply has caught up and now can be bought from India online sites with out script. Might be a bit expensive but you will have it....
The US military administered HCQ to troops assigned to overseas duty for decades. They probably still do.
The US military administered HCQ to troops assigned to overseas duty for decades. They probably still do.
Will Australian scientists nominate Trump for another Nobel Prize ? LOL
Maybe because whenever he mentions it, it makes it harder for people to get it.
I think whenever the pandemic is over and the actions of the health care estabishment are analyzed with regard to how they demonized hydroxychloroquine, it may be the biggest scandal in American medical history. HCQ opponents are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
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