Posted on 03/20/2020 12:16:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr Anthony Fauci has rebuked Donald Trump's claim that anti-malaria drug chloroquine could be a game-changer in the fight against COVID-19.
Dr Facui, who is a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, made the claim during an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN Thursday evening.
'There's no magic drug for coronavirus right now,' the top doctor told Cooper.
Earlier in the day, Trump told media that there had been positive results after doctors trialled chloroquine on COVID-19 patients, and suggested the drug could be a game-changer.
'It's shown very, very encouraging early results. We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. It's been approved,' he said.
However, Dr Fauci said on CNN just a few hours later: 'Let me put it into perspective for the viewers .. there has been anecdotal non-proven data that it [chloroquine] works... but when you have an uncontrolled trial you can never definitely say that it works'.
He repeated his caution on Friday in an interview with Today, saying: 'Even though the information is anecdotal that they may work, we need to prove it so people would get the right drug that's safe and effective.
'What we're saying is these are drugs that have some suggestion that they may work,' he went on, but that controlled trials needed to be done to prove that they are effective.
The University of Minnesota is looking for people who have been in contact with a known positive case of COVID-19 to volunteer for a trial to test Hydroxychloroquine and see if it is effective in preventing people from catching the virus.
They need 1,500 people to take part in the trial and so far have 150.
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* Trump on Thursday afternoon
'It's shown very, very encouraging early results.
'We're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. It's been approved.
* Dr. Fauci on Thursday night
'Let me put it into perspective for the viewers .. there has been anecdotal non-proven data that it [chloroquine] works... we need to prove it so people would get the right drug that's safe and effective.'
* Doctor who is leading hydroxychloroquinetrial trial on Friday morning
'President Trump is very excited about this but there's still a lot of work to be done... it's still important to determine: does the medicine work or does it just work in a test tube?'
TRIAL TO TEST MALARIA DRUG IN TREATING CORONAVIRUS UNDERWAY: DOCTORS ASK 1500 TO SIGN UP
The University of Minnesota is asking 1,500 people to sign up to a clinical trial to determine if Hydroxychloroquine is effective in treating coronavirus.
The trial is being led by Dr. David Boulware, MD, MPH.
They are asking for people who have been recently exposed to a confirmed case of COVID-19 to come forward.
Ideally, they want to treat healthcare workers to hopefully provide a prevention from then catching the virus.
Dr.Boulware appeared on Good Morning America on Friday to talk about the trial.
It would involve drugs being sent overnight to people who want to participate. Some would receive the malaria medication and some would receive a vitamin.
‘If effective, this may become a worldwide standard of care for helping prevent disease in other healthcare workers and people exposed.
‘Hydroxychloroquine is an off-patent, generic medicine that is inexpensive. A five-day treatment course would cost approximately $12,’ the University said in a press release about it.
On Friday, Dr. Boulware said the president had become ‘very excited’ about the trial but that more needs to be done.
‘As mentioned, it has activity in a lab setting in a cell culture model. It has activity in using it a little bit for treatment for sick patients, we’re looking at whether it can prevent infection,’ he said.
They want to sign up people with high risk exposure to see if they can stop them from catching it.
‘Health workers who have been exposed, or household contacts... high risk exposures and seeing if we can treat people in the first three days after their exposure to prevent them going on to develop the disease,’ he said.
So far, 150 people have signed up.
To find out more about whether or not you are eligible, visit the university’s website here or email covid@umn.edu.
Heaven forbid Donald Trump not be a sky-is-falling pessimist...
Is there money involved!?!?!?!?!
FAKE NEWS mischaracterizing what was said. There was no friggin’ “rebuke”.
Little Fauci is trying to take credit Himself
for a treatment which already has been shown to
work.
There is a word for that.
Time to fire fauci
Me thinks Dr Facui is liking all his new found celebrity a little to much.
Game Changer = Miracle Drug?
I need to consult my Dictionary.
‘There is no miracle drug’...
He never mixed xanax, klonopin, advil pm, hydroxyzine and roxycodone
Fake news BS. Hospital in NY is having positive results. Take Fauci out and shoot him!!
I think there is a disconnect there. Fouci and the FDA are still in this “No trial is valid unless we do it ourselves mode”.
I’m fine with and encourage them repeating the trials, but when you have something that appears to work, in the face of a life threatening epidemic that is projected to overwhelm your medical system, you use it.
Trials should be conducted within the context of making it widely available.
And I suspect Trump is going to win on this.
He didn’t “rebuke” anybody. He’s just a nerd with no communication skills pointing out the obvious. Of course these drugs aren’t “proven”. That’s not the point of this. There have been signs from reputable doctors that this could provide help and relief for desperate cases, and that’s why it’s being allowed. That’s all.
The media are being the usual dung beetles that they all are, trying to stir up and roll around crap during a national emergency.
cripes...what part of “could be” don’t they understand...
More dishonest reporting. What a shock.
This guys ass needs to be fired. He’s on FoxNews right now.
Correct,Fauci basically said Trump has every right to be optomistic and that himself is a scientist and relies on data but can also be optimistic and hopeful at the same time
I am guessing there is a book coming.
“I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.” William Tecumseh Sherman.
Trump and Fauci are talking about TWO DIFFERENT TOPICS.
Fauci remarks were about the use of the drug as a PROPHYLACTIC - a drug that could prevent the disease to occur. President Trump’s remarks were about the drug being used IN THE TREATMENT of the disease.
There is a gigantic difference between something being used as a PROPHYLACTIC and something being used in TREATMENT.
Also, The FDA has not approved the drug for the Chinese Virus — that is why Trump has allowed the medical staff to use the drug for ‘OFF LABEL’ use. This is allowed and happens quite often with Cancer medications.
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