Posted on 04/21/2020 5:41:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A panel of doctors and experts convened by the National Institutes of Health advised against combining two drugs that have been floated as possible cures for COVID-19, warning of potentially harmful effects.
The COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel advised against combining hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug, and azithromycin, an antibiotic also known as 'Z-Pak,' outside of clinical trials.
The panel said there is not enough clinical data to recommend either for or against the use of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19.
If hydroxychloroquine is used, clinicians should monitor patients for adverse effects, the panel said, especially heart problems.
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin has been promoted as a potential treatment for COVID-19 by President Trump, leading to shortages of both drugs.
The drugs, "taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine," Trump tweeted last month.
A small analysis of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Veterans Health Administration medical centers found that those who took hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die or need mechanical ventilation.
The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, analyzed only 368 patients but represented the largest look at the outcomes of COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine — with or without azithromycin, a common antibiotic — anywhere in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Of course NIH would do that. It’s not Fauci’s baby, and he can’t make a ton of money off it.
If the Shrieking Eels of the Left shriek about HCQ enough, lots of progtards will hear them, and die drowning in their own snot.
NIH needs a larger body count?
The real test here needs to be a polygraph of the NIH researchers.
These people are really desperate to promote Remesdivir. Just shows there’s no money to be made if you go with drugs beyond their patents.
The world is overpopulated. “Experts” can help with this problem.
The panel said there is not enough clinical data to recommend either for or against the use of hydroxychloroquine
I bet this panel had a hard time choosing lunch
One, fairly uncontrolled study. 368 patients. Dosage? You get the idea. Add it to the pile of positive anecdotal studies and see where it comes out in the balance. The FDA just approved a study by Novartis yesterday to begin a clinical trial of the same drug combo.
QUESTION:
Are any member on the panel of doctors and experts convened by the National Institutes of Health invested in another COVID 19 treatment?
“The real test here needs to be a polygraph of the NIH researchers.”
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Hey! I’m sure they’re every bit as honest and non-agenda driven as are the NOAA climate “scientists”.
NIH is the largest biomedical research agency in the world. If NIH is the largest, then they are probably the most bloated, and therefore most inefficient.
I smell Deep State. Looking for aerosol.
RE: One, fairly uncontrolled study. 368 patients. Dosage?
Not only that — what was the progression of the disease of the patients?
Dr. Zelenko has shown his own patient requirements for HCQ+Zpack+Zinc to be most successful. Did these NIH folks bother to replicate his treatment? Or did they choose patients WAY Advanced in their disease? ( i.e. already in respirators)?
I fill my toilet with better stuff than this in the mornings.
What do you expect from Big Pharma’s biggest lobby? Note they left out (on purpose) a key component .... Zinc. This evaluation is therefore incomplete and of no use.
Having doubts about... Dr “Fauxi” ?
-”Fauxi” praised use of
hydroxychloroquine in 2013 to treat the MERS corona virus
-Fauxi sent a $3.7M NIH research grant to the Wuhan lab in 2015 to fund virus research that was illegal in the U.S.
-Fauxi in 2017: President Trump Will Be Challenged By a “Surprise Global Disease Outbreak”
-Despite his 2017 prediction, Fauxi was unprepared for the 2019-2020 pandemic.
-In a Jan 2020 interview, he said, “...this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.” - intentional?
-Fauxi back in February said malls, gyms and movie theaters were OK.
-Fauxi on March 9 told Americans cruises were OK.
-Fauci on CNN Easter Sunday suggested President Trump should have shut down the country in February
-Fauxi opposed travel ban from China - agenda?
-Fauxi is front man for Big Pharma, pushing expensive new drugs for COVID-19, rather than inexpensive proven cures like HCQ that have been around for decades
-Fauxi is delaying tests of U.S. vaccines
-Fauxi agenda is mandated vaccines to benefit Big Pharma
-Fauxi promotes fear with exaggerated models & high death rates
-Fauxi exaggerated need for hospital ships
-Fauxi has longtime relationship with corrupt WHO director, who covers up for the CCP
-Fauxi plotted ‘Global Vaccine Action Plan’ with depopulation advocate Bill Gates, pushing COVID panic and doubts about HCQ. Big Pharma $$$s.
Follow the money!
Old stuff is cheap!
New stuff is expensive!
Lotta money to be made!
Fauci had his orders....and these are his boot lickers.
It seems they might have felt ifferently in 2004 regarding SARS, a relative to Covid-10:
In vitro inhibition of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus by chloroquine. “...Chloroquine, an old antimalarial drug, may be considered for immediate use in the prevention and treatment of SARS-CoV infections.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15351731
A small analysis of COVID-19 patients hospitalized at Veterans Health Administration medical centers found that those who took hydroxychloroquine were more likely to die or need mechanical ventilation.
The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, analyzed only 368 patients but represented the largest look at the outcomes of COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine — with or without azithromycin, a common antibiotic — anywhere in the world.
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https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/21/hydroxychloroquine-test-more-deaths-no-benefit-in-va-study/
Hydroxychloroquine test: More deaths, no benefit in VA study
The study was posted on an online site for researchers and has has not been reviewed by other scientists. Grants from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia paid for the work.
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