FDA Must Approve Hydroxychloroquine Now

[Editor's note: Lack of FDA approval does not prohibit off-label use of drugs for other threapeutic purposes, but would inhibit widespred use.]

You are being lied to about the drugs that heal COVID19.

America's FDA, and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, are dragging their feet on approving a drug that provides very strong positive effect on COVID19.

Fauci, speaking from the White House, said on the matter of approving Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin:

"It's it's essentially what I said multiple times from this podium. Is that when you have, first of all, we're trying to develop de novo drugs that are not yet out there, not that approved, that ultimately will be effective. And the way you prove that is to do a randomized controlled trial to prove safety and efficacy. Uh, I am not a totally sure what the the President was referring to, but I believe he's referring to a report that used both Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin together uh to have some uh possibility of being an effect. Many of the things that you hear out there are are what I had called anecdotal reports. They may be true. But they’re anecdotal."

Please notice that Dr. Fauci just called the effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin against COVID19 anecdotal. That will be very important in a moment.

Fauci continued, "So the only thing that I was saying is that if you really want to definitively know if something works that you've gotta do the kind of trial that you get the good information," by which he dismissed the body of scientific work that supports the use of Hydroxychloroquine.

Fauci went on,

While Dr. Fauci’s use of the word ‘anecdotal’ may be a commonly understood term within his scientific community he failed to realize two things when speaking before the nation:

1) He came across, perhaps unintentionally, as sounding dismissive. While he may have been precise in a scientific sense the “take away” for many Americans was one of a somewhat negative view.

2) If you accept the definition of ‘anecdotal’ as being “evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony”, which I think is how most people would understand and use the term, then perhaps Dr. Fauci should have been more careful with his use of the word knowing that lay persons constituted the vast majority of his audience.

He is a very educated man who has been in his government position for 36 years. By now one would think that he knows enough to be more measured when speaking before the general public, and indeed the world at large.

That said I applaud him for his informative interview on the Levin show last night. He was a reassuring model of clarity.

Amen. Let’s hear a big Trump “you’re fired” for Fauxi and for Hahn at FDA.

What people don’t realize is that in 1 month every hospital in the country will be filled.

I laughed when I read the news article about the trials saying that they were going to go at lightning speed and be done in 2 months. The epidemic will have peaked and faded long before they get done.

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