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VA Chief: Actually Hydroxychloroquine Has Been Working Against COVID-19; Stopped Disease Progression on Middle-age and Younger veterans
Epoch Times ^ | 04/22/2020 | Zachary Steiber

Posted on 04/22/2020 11:41:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been working in COVID-19 patients, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie said on Wednesday.

Wilkie’s comments come after a study looking at the effects of the drug in 368 patients in Veterans Health Administration hospitals found no evidence the drug is effective against COVID-19, a new disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

Responding to the results during an appearance on MSNBC, Wilkie said, “That’s just an observational study. It’s not a clinical study. It was done on a small number of veterans; sadly, those of whom were in the last stages of life, and the drug was given to them.”

The drug “has been working on middle-age and younger veterans,” Wilkie added. By that, he meant that it was “stopping the progression of” COVID-19.

The study in question can help inform doctors who are caring for veterans who have the CCP virus, Wilkie said.

Doctors across the nation have been prescribing hydroxychloroquine but there are a number of concerns about its effectiveness and, if it proves effective, medical workers want to pinpoint the correct dosage information and other matters regarding how and when to prescribe it.

Clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine are underway in Minnesota, Tennessee, and New York. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the Empire State, asked for more doses of the drug to be delivered to New York City while in the Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, according to Wilkie.

Also this week, doctors and experts on a panel created by the National Institutes of Health said they were recommending against using hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin, an antibiotic also known as Z-Pak.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chinavirustreatment; corona; covid; covid19; hcq; hcqtreatment; hydroxychloroquine; va; vastudy
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1 posted on 04/22/2020 11:41:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump!


2 posted on 04/22/2020 11:43:15 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Glad he’s clarifying.
And nobody mentions zinc.


3 posted on 04/22/2020 11:43:36 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SeekAndFind

too late. the “retrospective study” is already being blared from the mountaintops — which was the whole idea in the first place.


4 posted on 04/22/2020 11:44:20 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: SeekAndFind
They keep on not using the triple recipe!


5 posted on 04/22/2020 11:44:43 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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“That’s just an observational study. It’s not a clinical study. It was done on a small number of veterans; sadly, those of whom were in the last stages of life, and the drug was given to them.”

Great post. Thanks. If you do a news search on hydroxychlorquine, that "observational study" of veterans "in their last stages of life" is plastered EVERYWHERE by every media outlet you can imagine.
6 posted on 04/22/2020 11:45:30 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: SeekAndFind

The issue for the Deep State and the HCQ protocol is that NOBODY GETS RICH OFF A GENERIC DRUG!!!!


7 posted on 04/22/2020 11:46:23 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: SeekAndFind

We need to find out who’s been buying stock in Gilead.


8 posted on 04/22/2020 11:46:26 AM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: SeekAndFind

It doesn’t matter if a hundred thousand Hunan coronavirus sufferers are helped by hydroxychloroquine.

If even one of them has any sort of adverse health reaction, the Monica Media will focus on that one case to support their Orange Man Bad messaging.


9 posted on 04/22/2020 11:46:37 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: JohnBrowdie
RE: too late. the “retrospective study” is already being blared from the mountaintops — which was the whole idea in the first place.

Tell me about it. The Mainstream media was on a feeding frenzy. One source copying from another, all reporting the same fake news with glee. See below:


10 posted on 04/22/2020 11:47:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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RE: We need to find out who’s been buying stock in Gilead.

ME, the Hydroxychloroquine fan, through my mutual fund. Anything wrong with that?


11 posted on 04/22/2020 11:48:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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I think it is obvious that the drug has some benefits if started early in the course of the disease. Not when someone is on intubation.


12 posted on 04/22/2020 11:48:22 AM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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To: mmichaels1970

The news media, academia, entertainment and any Democrat LIE, LIE, LIE!


13 posted on 04/22/2020 11:48:24 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: SeekAndFind

But those facts did not get in the way of the NAZI Institute of Health from issuing a decree that HCQ is bad and the media then hyperventilating in a coordinated effort between NIH and them.


14 posted on 04/22/2020 11:49:01 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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For those with the twitter thingy, here is a link to video of the actual interview (warning MSNBC).
15 posted on 04/22/2020 11:49:54 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: DannyTN
The medical establishment is incredibly hidebound and amazingly resistant to common sense. That's why all real medical progress historically has come in times of war when out of desperation some doctors are brave enough to toss the book and go back to practicing actual medicine, focusing on the needs of the patient. Figure out what works first, then when you have the luxury of time let the researchers provide an explanation and move it into orthodoxy.

It's been obvious for some time that front-line doctors are ignoring the received wisdom from the medical establishment and HCQ+Zinc+Azythromycin has become the de facto go-to treatment for most patients.

16 posted on 04/22/2020 11:50:40 AM PDT by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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Ah, but the recipe that works was derived from a Jewish Doctor treating Jews, very religious Jews. So that must be set to the side, not used as proof of efficacy don’tchaknow. The gatesian minions must make sure there are very mixed results with what stops this devilish virus. Must not have a ‘cure’ until Gates’s vaccines arrive complete with tracking systems. The sheeple must be controlled you see, because a nation of we the people sovereigns must be obliterated so the new world order can take over the planet.


17 posted on 04/22/2020 11:51:36 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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RE: I think it is obvious that the drug has some benefits if started early in the course of the disease. Not when someone is on intubation.

That was what Dr. Zelenko’s successful treatments on hundreds of patients concluded. And Zelenko kept emhpasizing it -— the purpose is TO PREVENT the disease from progressing to a point a patient has to be intubated !!

He repeated it in EVERY interview and even PUBLISHED IT!

I don’t know how many of these people who performed the trials even bothered to talk to him. Whatever it is, the unsuccessful trials were NOT DESIGNED to replicate Dr. Zelenko’s successful cases. Those who succeeded replicated what he did ( e.g. Dr. William Grace, Dr. Stephen Smith ).


18 posted on 04/22/2020 11:52:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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RE: Ah, but the recipe that works was derived from a Jewish Doctor treating Jews, very religious Jews.

Dr. Zelenko said that his idea of using HCQ was NOT ORIGINAL. He simply referred to past successful cases in China, Korea and France. All other Doctors who replicated Zelenko succeeded ( e.g. Dr. William Grace and Dr. Stephen Smith of NJ, two examples ).


19 posted on 04/22/2020 11:54:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Wilkie said, “ It was done on a small number of veterans; sadly, those of whom were in the last stages of life, and the drug was given to them.”


Trump keeps talking that we the people are at ‘war’ with the invisible enemy. He mentions it occasionally, but ‘we the people’ are also at war with the GLOBALISTS, DEMOCRAT LEADERS, THE MEDIA, AND MANY ‘DEEP STATE’ BUREAUCRATS.


20 posted on 04/22/2020 11:54:34 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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