Posted on 04/10/2020 3:03:36 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Field reports from physicians around the world suggest that hydroxychloroquine, a relatively inexpensive drug used to treat malaria for more than 60 years, may be useful in fighting COVID-19. Based on this emerging data, President Trump has suggested that doctors consider the “off-label” use of hydroxychloroquine in this global emergency.
So why is President Trump being ridiculed or condemned for at least spreading a ray of hope against a disease so new it would be impossible for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have its own officially approved treatment yet? Is the president promoting quackery, or worse? Nothing of the sort.
To start, hydroxychloroquine is not being used without any safeguards. The standard clinical trials proving its value against this disease have not been conducted — but hydroxychloroquine was tested and approved six decades ago, and it has an established record of efficacy and side effects that physicians can review. No doctor is prescribing it without following standard protocols observed for any drug or any patient.
While hydroxychloroquine may not be the best or ultimate cure against COVID-19, and while its use may be more experimental than proven at this stage, the fact is that this is not a normal situation. We face a new, dangerously infectious virus, and abnormal times can require abnormal measures. Hydroxychloroquine has shown promise in treating symptomatic cases of COVID-19, which is why many doctors are using it. And a recent survey of some 1,200 U.S. doctors found that 65 percent said they would prescribe it to treat or prevent COVID-19 in a family member.
Indeed, medical authorities have explained for years that off-label drug use — prescribing a medication for a health condition other than its normal purpose — can be an innovative way to broaden therapeutic tools in challenging medical situations.
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If DJT stood up for broccoli and carrots each day, the evil media cretins would tell us that they were poisonous.
>>So why is President Trump being ridiculed or condemned for at least spreading a ray of hope against a disease so new it would be impossible for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have its own officially approved treatment yet?
“Orange man bad!”
Stalinists are OK with millions dying.
Stalinists lie. Always
According to reports, Blacks are suffering the most. While Trump is recommending treatment that has shown promising results so far - including saving the life of a Black legislator from Michigan, the Left is trying to stop him.
The left would prefer months of clinical studies (paid for by the taxpayers) before any decision can be made.
How many Blacks will die needlessly because the Left wants studies and clinical trials that are designed to enrich them.
because COVID is just another hoax, being exploited by the FakeNewsMSM in an election year. if it was as serious as they say, they wouldn’t be objecting to its use.
It's the swamp. Fauci and Birx included.
Follow the money.
Another plus with Trump is his abilities to show us just how disgusting the inside the beltway crowd is.
How many Blacks will die needlessly because the Left wants studies and clinical trials that are designed to enrich them.
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Good question.
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I hope when the time comes in the fall, when THEY SAY this virus is going to return ...... I hope this drug is offered to anyone in the country who wants to take it....prophylactically/preventatively.
That’s alright; they will just rewrite history when this is done to say that this drug was pioneered by Joe Biden, Cuomo and the ditzy governor of Michigan who all opposed it, and that Trump opposed it. Example? I read an online summary of the Presidents, ranked by historians from the worst (Harding and GW Bush) to the best (Lincoln and Washington). Lyndon Johnson, of all people, was ranked 11th and in his short bio there was not a mention of Vietnam, which he started and bungled. Vietnam was prominently mentioned in Nixon’s bio, however (ranked 25th and a far better president than LBJ). So they not only distort reality through their “news” but also history.
So Rand Paul and Boris Johnson have been playing along, as well as that democrat comgresswoman who recovered from COVID-19 after taking HC and dared to praise Trump for encouraging it?
Pretty amazing that it’s only 65%. Sad.
Just call them Trump Pills
To stop the return of manufacturing of products back to the US that went to China. China backers here who will be hit hard are also claiming that Trump’s alleged stock ownership in a quinine pills maker claim its a controlling interest in a product to be totally ineffective and when used requires a severe restriction of movement when near a possible carrier known as a shutdown because of its rapid transmission .
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LOL
What ....... about $300.00?
;-)
yep
HCQ/Zpak/Zinc is pretty successful in treating the Wuhan flu. But there is still no treatment for TDS
President Donald Trump didn’t pull this out of thin air, he was merely presenting what his top doctors had reported to him.
What our internal enemy demanded was that POTUS shut up and let Dr. Fauci speak because Fauci is a promoter of vaccines which are backed by the twisted psychopathic mind of Bill Gates who is pushing to vaccinate all of us with nano chip RFID tags he calls ‘Digital Certificates’ that identify, monitor, and track us.
But the President did an end run around the vaccine lobby by presenting the findings of other doctors.
Did the President know of the conflict with the vaccine lobby?
Yes, he knows who are members of the Swamp, he is briefed privately on the backgrounds of each such member around him.
Release data by IQ and we will have proof of Old Slow Joe DLDS and his negative IQ.
Politicians holding up possible life saving medication is criminal, period! Blood on their hands
“To start, hydroxychloroquine is not being used without any safeguards.”
When I was in the Army stationed in Korea in the 70’s, this stuff was on every table in the mess hall. We were ordered to take it. It was right next to the salt and pepper shakers. So much for it requiring ‘safeguards’.
But everyone who takes it dies of heart troubles. At least that is what my sister believes.
Excellent article. Thanks.
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