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Trump says US officials should have ‘good idea’ if malaria drug works on coronavirus in three days
CNBC ^ | March 30, 2020 | Berkely Lovelace Jr.

Posted on 03/30/2020 9:15:08 AM PDT by Yardstick

President Donald Trump said U.S. health officials should have a “good idea” whether an anti-malaria drug being tested as a treatment for COVID-19 is effective in fighting the coronavirus in “the next three days.”

“Hydroxychloroquine is something that I have been pushing very hard,” Trump said Monday morning during an interview on Fox News. “I think we’re going to have a good idea over the next three days because it’s been used now in New York at my request -- 1,100 people. It’s been used. I think that’s better than testing it in a laboratory. But the doctors tell me no.”

There are no proven therapies for the treatment of COVID-19 and U.S. health officials expect a vaccine could take 12 to 18 months.

New York state last week began the first large-scale clinical trial using a combination of chloroquine and Azithromycin to treat the coronavirus after the Food and Drug Administration fast-tracked the approval process.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bayer; chloroquine; clinical; covid19; fda; fdahcqzpac; hydrochloroquine; hydroxychloroquine; novartis; sandoz; trial; trumphcqzpac; york
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President Trump says we should start seeing results from the NY state clinical trials later this week.
1 posted on 03/30/2020 9:15:08 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

A miracle in April that occurs in 3 days?

Pray for it, people!!


2 posted on 03/30/2020 9:16:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Yardstick

Thank you, President Trump, for your fearless leadership in this crisis and especially for pushing this drug!

Hope its production is being ramped up significantly!


3 posted on 03/30/2020 9:17:31 AM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Yardstick

MSM: FALSE HOPE! FDA FORCED BY TRUMP TO APPROVE. SHUT DOWN THE BRIEFINGS! NOW!


4 posted on 03/30/2020 9:18:42 AM PDT by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: Yardstick

I wish they had picked a different state. I read somewhere were NY was giving it only to people who have been put on ventilators. May not be the best use. I would rather they give it to people with symptoms, but who haven’t gotten to that point yet. The media would love to have this fail so they can keep the hysteria going.


5 posted on 03/30/2020 9:20:47 AM PDT by redangus
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To: Yardstick

This must be a three day old article, because the results are in. his pandemic is going out with a whimper. it was stillborn.


6 posted on 03/30/2020 9:22:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Yardstick

Probably should have waited those three days before touting it as a miracle drug.


7 posted on 03/30/2020 9:22:35 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: cuban leaf

his = This


8 posted on 03/30/2020 9:22:48 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: redangus
I'd say if you're running a fever...you should get the meds.

Just like when our kids were little....we watched for that temperature. It was the best clue we had except for looking in their eyes.

9 posted on 03/30/2020 9:23:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Yardstick

If you look at the death trends in Worldometer, they are already trending downward, fueled by countries using the drug pair.


10 posted on 03/30/2020 9:24:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Yardstick
“Hydroxychloroquine is something that I have been pushing very hard,” Trump said Monday morning during an interview on Fox News. “I think we’re going to have a good idea over the next three days because it’s been used now in New York at my request -- 1,100 people. It’s been used. I think that’s better than testing it in a laboratory. But the doctors tell me no.”

If they have 1099 people cured but one 96 year old person with a bad heart, lung cancer, and diabetes dies, it will be deemed a failure.

Trump bad, causes all the ills in the world.

If you vote for Trump, you will die and go straight to hell.

You are evil and vile.

Oh wait, I voted for Trump, wear Trump 2020 gear, have my Trump lawn signs ready to go, my Trump flag ready to fly...I guess I'm going straight to hell.

Maybe I will, but it won't be because I voted for and if alive, will vote for ; President Donald John Trump, Number 45A and 45B.

11 posted on 03/30/2020 9:25:06 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: Yardstick

The old “no proven therapies” nonsense.

Of course there are no proven therapies! This virus is 3 months old! If you let the scientists call the shots, they will take a year to run perfect clinical trials - while people die.

Thank you Pres. Trump for being the only rational thinker on the stage.

It is great to get the input from the scientists, just remember, they are not decision makers! They study, study, study and write a paper and hope the scientific community agrees on their thesis!

Don’t get me wrong, the people developing treatments and vaccines are brilliant - it is the FDA and the medical industrial complex that is putting up the roadblocks.

He must know it is going well. Every - virtually every study - France, China, New York (Rockland County) have the same conclusion - incredibly effective. Only the very, very sick don’t benefit - because the get the drugs too late or are so compromised, nothing will cure them.


12 posted on 03/30/2020 9:26:11 AM PDT by dan on the right
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To: CatOwner

I’m doubting that he was touting.


13 posted on 03/30/2020 9:26:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: redangus

Republican Florida Governor says it’s being used in Florida:

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/325642-israeli-drugs-combatting-coronavirus

Ron DeSantis: Israeli hydroxychloroquine combating coronavirus

In a media availability Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed that Israeli-sourced hydroxychloroquine is already being used in South Florida hospitals.

The hope is that hydroxychloroquine, approved for treatment of arthritis, lupus, and malaria, works off label, as a “right to try” medicine for those without other medical recourse.

The Governor said Saturday the drug would be sent to hot spots for COVID-19, including Dade, Broward, Hillsborough and Orange counties.

The Governor noted Saturday that it is being used in New York, and offered anecdotal evidence of a “Floridian in very bad shape” who “used it and it seemed to clear up the lungs and the virus.”

“I’m not a doctor. I’m not telling anyone to take it or not to take it,” DeSantis added. “This is just something that doctors may have at their disposal.”


14 posted on 03/30/2020 9:28:12 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Yardstick

It seems we may have an answer from Dr Raoult now. Stay tuned.


15 posted on 03/30/2020 9:28:51 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Yardstick

We should, but we won’t.

Missing from the story is the word ‘zinc’, the part of the treatment triad left out of Dr. Zelenko’s successes. Zinc inteferes with the ability of the virus to replicate and destroy the lung / organs of victim, setting up cytokine storm.

Read the limitations placed by globalist governors - not allowed unless hospitalized (lung damage has already occurred), so virus allowed to replicate to wreak maximum damage.


16 posted on 03/30/2020 9:32:57 AM PDT by RideForever (We were born to be tested)
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To: redangus

I wish they had picked a different state. I read somewhere were NY was giving it only to people who have been put on ventilators. May not be the best use. I would rather they give it to people with symptoms, but who haven’t gotten to that point yet.

That’s probably ok. Most people with less severe symptoms will spontaneously recover. The treatment is being given to those in a more dire condition whio might otherwise not recover. This will also reduce the possibility of running out of the drug.


17 posted on 03/30/2020 9:33:33 AM PDT by Flick Lives (A liberal is someone who worries that somewhere, someone is enjoying life.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I just wish he would stop talking like this for a while. Let the HCQ be given and see what happens. Stop raising expectations . If it works, take a well deserved bow. But if it fails and you’ve raised hope then that is a double whammy on him and on the nation’s morale.


18 posted on 03/30/2020 9:35:11 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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CLINTON FOUNDATION GAVE FOREIGN COUNTRIES MALARIA MEDS FOR YEARS in accordance with its stated mission:
" to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence.

BACKSTORY The Clinton Foundation was founded in 1997 as the William J. Clinton Foundation. From 2013 to 2015 it was briefly renamed the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation. It is a "non-profit" organization under section 501(c)(3) of the US tax code with offices located in New York City and Little Rock, Arkansas.

Through 2016, the Clinton Foundation raised an estimated $2 billion from US corporations, foreign governments and corporations, political donors, and various other groups and individuals.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). As of January 1, 2010, the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative..... an initiative of the Clinton Foundation...... became a separate nonprofit organization called the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI).

The Clinton Foundation continues to supply Africa and other areas with anti-malarial drugs (now seen as a treatment for the pandemic coronavirus).

In 2011 CHAI provided more than 12 million individuals globally with subsidized anti-malarial drugs.

(A key question is why so many global govt agencies set-up as health maintenance organizations financed by their
indigenous citizenry gave hundreds of millions to finance the Clintons's distribution of drugs to individuals in other countries.)

CHAI was spun off into a separate organization in 2010; Ira Magaziner became its CEO (he had been a key figure in then-F/L Hillary's loser health care plan of 1993). Chelsea Clinton joined its board in 2011, as did Tachi Yamada, onetime President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation>.

19 posted on 03/30/2020 9:37:59 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: redangus

I’d hope they’d trial on different points of illness so they know if/when it works.


20 posted on 03/30/2020 9:38:41 AM PDT by Moonlighter
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