[Brooklyn Attitude]

Wow! That was fast.

[David Chase]

Paging Half Witt Governor of Michigan!!

[SteveH]

No thanks to the trump hating MSM who constantly criticized him for suggesting it 9 days ago.

Also, Gilead deeply saddened.

[House Atreides]

https://www.france24.com/en/20200330-us-fda-gives-emergency-approval-of-anti-malaria-drugs-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-for-coronavirus

“....the FDA had allowed them “to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.”....”
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Hopefully, very quickly, this formal authorization will be expanded to allow distribution to physicians prescribing to patients who test positive but who are not (yet) sick enough to require hospitalization.

[txrefugee]

Hopefully, the doctors will stop hoarding those pills now. That was a problem in Texas, but it did show that these drugs worked.

[SteveH]

It would be somewhat amusing if, as a result of HCL/z-pack/zinc regimen, the situation were to be more or less under control by April 12, and the country were well enough healed that folks could attend Easter services and go back to work by then...

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[SmokingJoe]

The governors of Michigan and Nevada on suicide watch.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[FreedomPoster]

Here is the FDA Emergency Use Authorization for Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine

Therapeutics

On March 28, 2020, FDA issued an EUA to allow hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate products donated to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to be distributed and used for certain hospitalized patients with COVID-19. These drugs will be distributed from the SNS to states for doctors to prescribe to adolescent and adult patients hospitalized with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible. The EUA requires that fact sheets that provide important information about using chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate in treating COVID-19 be made available to health care providers and patients, including the known risks and drug interactions. The SNS, managed by ASPR, will work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to ship donated doses to states.

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization#covidtherapeutics

[upchuck]

... the National Institutes of Health and ASPR's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), are working together to plan clinical trials.

Gee, where were you guys last month? Or the month before that? HCL has been used, off label, for months.

I bet Dr. Fauchi and friends are beside themselves. We've got something that works and it doesn't cost $1000/pill to use. Big Pharma must be going nuts.

Where is the zinc? I've read several places that zinc should be mixed with HCL to be really effective.

[Chickensoup]

why am I not finding this headline anywhere else??

Is it real?

[null and void]

Good. Fast. Cheap.
Pick any two...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[Sirius Lee]

Trumpiclllin! MAWA

[GulfMan]

Good news !! Also, with Trump’s announcement that there will be an important press conference on Tuesday I am hoping this means VERY good news. This is when the first week of HC use will have been evaluated in the 1,100 person study in New York. My guess is they are already experiencing significant improvement in patients. Is is the reason why NY posted such a lower death rate yesterday? I certainly hope so.

[eartick]

Well bless their lil bureaucratic heart. See, who said two trillion would not fix this hoax

[equaviator]

Citizens of MI to Gov Whitmer:

‘So...what’s your answer gonna be, bitch?”

[Caipirabob]

Finally, the FDA chimes in.

Note: PRESIDENT TRUMP LEAD with the hope of Hydrochloroquine before any nation, any world leader, any government agency.

[ealgeone]

FDA...welcome to the party, pal.

[AustinBill]

While assumed nefariousness is common here, there's a more charitable explanation for this delay readily at hand, that being the available supply. It would have done little good to "approve" the drug in advance of it being widely available as that would have simply led to more public panic as patients demanded what doctors could not give them because they didn't have it.

Per the article, at least 70 million doses of hydroxychloroquine should now be in the US pipeline, which should be sufficient to treat all current and at-risk patients, with global supply undoubtedly continuing to ramp.

If this protocol is as effective as early reports suggest, we should start seeing dramatic jumps in the recovery statistics by the end of this week and this whole crisis could well be over by Easter--exactly as Trump forecast. A nasty flu is unfortunate but nothing to freak out about. The doomsday scenarios the media has been hyping for weeks now of millions dead and dying is what has us all effectively under house arrest, which is causing real and serious economic harm, and undoubtedly contributing to unnecessary death in its own right.

You might even begin to believe that the US President has access to information that pundits don't have. Imagine that.