Posted on 03/22/2020 8:28:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[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,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oooohh a conspiracy story please do tell. I got my tinfoil wrapped tight now fire away. Do tell how Bill Gates is an evil genius and is in some.cahoots with Admiral Fauci and “big phama” I say admiral as now that we have a declaration of national emergency national healthcare administration revert to their military ranks with equivalent authority.
No, he is NOT. He is a bureaucrat who can babble scientific jargon. Multiple controlled studies have been done. The data is in. Fauci is either a lying scumbag or grossly ignorant.
And yes, I "am" a scientist.
Well said.
As for the Center for Disease Control its pretty clear they are not focused on controlling disease otherwise they would have been more proactively prepared , or at least better able, to deal with an outbreak of this magnitude. They are just another self-serving bureaucracy.
If we kill the lawyers to prevent law suits, there is no problem with off label usage
The lawyers are America’s problem, not the FDA
Bingo!!! Great comeback. :)
In China at the end of February researchers there had enough clinical data to recommend that the treatment be added to the nationwide list of standard treatments for the outbreak.
Fauci is behind in his reading, or hedging his bets since he just wants to end up looking good personally, and the anti-Trump press is doing everything they can to try to make Trump look bad.
Doctors don't need the FDA to do anything other than stay out of the way. Every MD and DO in the USA has the ability to prescribe drugs for off label use. At this point, barring any contraindications (pregnancy, etc.) a doctor in the USA who didn't try hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to save a COVID-19 patient is probably risking litigation.
deep state fauci will fight this
to keep the cures for his family and the
clowns who support him, not mention
he probably has deeply invest(ed) in alternatives.
he should have been fired with his wife years ago.
Let’s say we are covid-19 patients with severe cases of it. Given the choice to select a drug that may work or reject it because it isn’t scientifically proven remedy against c-19 what would we choose? If it’s me it’s a no brainer— give me the drugs, I’ll sign the waivers should it not work out.
Follow the money.
Hydroxycholorquine costs about $20 for one month’s supply. It is a generic drug manufactured by several companies. It has been approved and in use since 1955 for malaria and other diseases. It is unlikely that drug companies will pay for clinical trials to test the efficacy of hydroxycholorquine in view of limited profit potential.
Remdesivir is a proprietary experimental drug developed by one major medical company, Gilead Science. It has not been approved for use at all, but is being clinically tested, apparently sponsored by Gilead Science. Estimated cost for one month’s supply is $1,000. There is a high profit potential if this drug is ultimately approved.
Is it any wonder that the drug industry is trying to slow the use of Hydroxycholoroquine to maintain a market for
remdesivir after it finishes clinical trials?
The FDA has long had a symbiotic relationship with the drug industry, which some might view as incestuous, or worse. It is possible that the FDA is complicit in delaying use of hydroxychloroquine to allow a window of opportunity for the profit from Remdesivir.
The use of HCQ for covid19 is not approved, but it is not prohibited, either. The FDA wants to PROVE it’s effective before they approve of its use for this off label treatment. But I don’t know of many doctors who will watch their patients die knowing there are drugs that may save their patients’ lives.
Well if these drugs prove to be a significant success against covid-19 the vaulted praise of Dr Fauci will likely diminish. He’s getting up there anyway at age 79. Time to retire soon, no?
As a fellow scientist, by profession and multiple post graduate degrees. I see no fault in having testing as is legally required by the FDA to issue a department approval. The FDA is not only allowing use it is demanding use in a widespread testing environment. N.Y.state starts theirs on Tuesday Gov. Cuomo just said it. Any patient can already request from their doctors the right to try the drugs under the law that was signed by POTUS last year so the fda nor Admiral Fauci are denying anyone whos doctors ask for the drugs. The supplies are limited and people depend on these drugs for other conditions as well like Lupus. We need a mass trial with a control group of similar size and morbidity to get a scientific study done. Then approvals can be had.
You miss the point entirely.
A greedy lawyer son of a bitch will create from thin air circumstances allowing the pretense of a lawsuit against the doctor and perhaps the drug maker.
Both judges and doctor defense lawyers live off the greedy lawyer sons of bitches bringing the plaintiff law suits. Rather than give up their lucrative business, the defense lawyers taint them selves with the stench and do not even try to cause cessation
Unless we kill the lawyers, literally, not figuratively, the liability will exist.
Mr. President,
Australia has approved this therapy after secret trials.
Time to tell the FDA times up. Let’s roll!
This is silly. It is approved. A doctor may prescribe it. It is not approved for treating Covid but that does not mean a doctor may not prescribe it.
I wonder how the supply of this medicine would hold out if everyone who just wants it, would get it.
I don’t respond to idiots.
a new protocol seems to be needed, otherwise the existing protocol encourages hoarding and interferes with effective treatment. imho.
Ohio pharmacy board restricts prescriptions for experimental coronavirus treatment drugs
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | Mar 21, 2020 | Lucas Sullivan
Posted on 3/22/2020, 8:26:23 AM by McGruff
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3827061/posts
lol
Doctors are already allowed to use this for Wuhan Virus patients here in the US. Am I correct?
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