Posted on 05/05/2020 9:16:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are many new examples of the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an early treatment of COVID-19, yet stockpiles of it waste away in government warehouses. Most of the 100 million donated doses will expire without ever being distributed to help dying Americans.
Ever since President Trump suggested that HCQ could be an effective treatment for COVID-19, Democrats have worked overtime to prove the president wrong. They falsely trumpeted the death of a man who ingested fish tank cleaner, an incident which his friends say may have actually been foul play to harm him while hiding the crime.
HCQ is a 55-year-old, inexpensive medication that is widely used to treat malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Like any drug it causes side effects in a small fraction of the population, but 55 years of successful use proves that it can be taken safely by most people.
Democrats were humiliated when an African-American state representative, Karen Whitsett, publicly thanked President Trump after she was cured of coronavirus by taking the drug that Trump recommended. At a caucus in her legislative district in Detroit, held over Zoom last Saturday, 15 Democrats unanimously passed a resolution to censure Rep. Whitmer for giving credit where credit was due.
At nearby Wayne State University, a 92-year-old researcher, Dr. Ananda Prasad, was fortunate. He could prescribe an HCQ zinc therapy for himself when he contracted the virus, and he attributes his recovery to this treatment.
Other elderly patients have been lucky to have a child who prescribed them HCQ. Dr. Daniel Amen reportedly stepped in to save the lives of his elderly parents, age 88 and 90, by prescribing HCQ and azithromycin to enable them to recover from COVID-19.
Anna Fortunato is a 90-year-old Long Islander who was hospitalized with COVID-19. She was so ill that her daughter asked for a priest to give her the last rites of the church, but the hospital refused to allow a priest to visit her bedside because it was too risky.
“I had a good husband, and my children are beautiful,” she recounted to the AP. “I’ve lived to see grandchildren, and great-grandchildren … so I AM fortunate.”
At the other end of New York State, in the town of Albion near Buffalo, 94-year-old Norma Longrod was hospitalized with a fever and tested positive for the coronavirus. “We also did treat her with hydroxychloroquine, which is a medicine out there we’ve talked about in the press,” the hospitalist medical director explained.
“I’m much better – much, much better than when I came here. They thought that I was not going to make it,” Mrs. Longrod said after her recovery.
Grandmother Jean Boccard, 97 years old in Broward County, Florida, was admitted to the hospital with a case of COVID-19. Like many people her age, she also had multiple underlying health conditions including heart disease.
“I want to get out of here, the food is terrible,” Mrs. Boccard complained, like many hospital patients. “And I get no sleep because they’re always coming in and looking at me.”
With the help of a devoted son, Mrs. Boccard found Dr. Mike Perl who prescribed HCQ along with an antibiotic called Z-Pak. Two weeks later, she was out of the hospital and ready to resume her normal life.
At a veterans home in Lebanon, Oregon, William Lapschies is one of at least 15 residents who tested positive for COVID-19. The 104-year-old World War II veteran made a full recovery after his family found a doctor who treated Mr. Lapschies with hydroxychloroquine.
But most Americans continue to be denied access to early treatment by HCQ, while it rots in government warehouses. Medication expires after a while, and at this rate the much-publicized donations of HCQ to governments by well-meaning companies will end up being thrown out rather than used to save lives.
Interference with early access by patients to HCQ by Anthony Fauci, FDA bureaucrats, and Democratic state officials, despite HCQ’s proven 55-year track record to be safer than other medications easily accessible by Americans, has exacerbated this crisis beyond all justification. Liberals object to access to HCQ by Americans for early treatment of the Wuhan virus, but at the same time arrange for government to hoard the medication.
If this invasion by a foreign enemy were using conventional warfare of guns and tanks, then the conservative response would be to arm the American people quickly with as many guns and ammo as possible. Instead, this invasion is by a foreign virus, and government should not be impeding access by Americans to medication for immediate self-defense.
John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.
These “expiration dates” are bad jokes. The pills will work LONG after that date.
They gave everyone $1200 in a huge stimulus- but they can’t give everyone with health conditions, or of elderly age a 5-7 day supply along with Azythromycin and zinc to be held by doctors to be given at first sign of virus?
We must find a way to pressure those hoarding the meds to distribute them to Doctors, Hospitals, and pharmacies, so that front line healthcare workers can take them prophylactically, and patients testing positive can take them early.
correct
they are just guaranteed by the company to be 100% potent up to that date,
but they probably will be 100% potent for several years after, with a small dropoff in potency down the road
its more about making room for the company’s new stock than anything else and people’s misperceptions about seeing newer dated items
RE: We must find a way to pressure those hoarding the meds to distribute them to Doctors, Hospitals, and pharmacies, so that front line healthcare workers can take them prophylactically, and patients testing positive can take them early.
Regarding Hydroxychloroquine being taken as prophylactic and patients taking them early -— THE LAW IN EACH STATE HAS TO BE CHANGED TO DO THAT.
In Many States like NY, there are laws and/or executive orders that ONLY ALLOW hospitalized patients to take HCQ. Doctors are not allowed to prescribe it outpatient ( but this is not strictly enforced as Dr. Vladirmir Zelenko and a few others have shown ).
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Article and # 6.
I am nominating you as a most selfless contributor of critically important material threads to view on FR.
Keep up the great work!
It's not just states. The FDA has issued a warning that HCQ should ONLY be prescribed for COVID-19 if the patient is hospitalized or in an approved clinical trial. They are treating doctors as if they can't comprehend the drug's effects and interactions. While I'm sure many doctors are willing to ignore that warning prescribe it anyway, many hospitals and doctors will not go against the FDA and risk a bad outcome, even if that risk is small.
Big Pharma wants it’s money’s worth from those campaign contributions.
A $30 cure vs. $1,000 mandatory vaccine, you do the math.
Get that hydroxychloroquine to the Nations - Stat!
“They gave everyone $1200 in a huge stimulus- but they can’t give everyone with health conditions, or of elderly age a 5-7 day supply along with Azythromycin and zinc to be held by doctors to be given at first sign of virus?”
Stop all that crazy talk there! Don’t go making sense to the masses!/s
can’t help it- being locked up makes me crazy (Actually we aitn locked up- we go out as we pleaSE- no nazi police around where we live-
not sure if this has been posted previously:
Wikipedia: The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
most authors CDC:
Aug 2005: NCBI: Virology Journal: Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
Conclusion
Chloroquine is effective in preventing the spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. Favorable inhibition of virus spread was observed when the cells were either treated with chloroquine prior to or after SARS CoV infection...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging disease that was first reported in Guangdong Province, China, in late 2002...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/
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MAke it avaioable over the counter.
Package it with cialis for a twofer!
I want to know more about the prophylactic effect of HCQ. I’ve got just about all of the dreaded “co-morbidities” they warn about and I would love to have some protection for when (if) the lockdown eases.
I’ve been on lockdown for weeks now and I’m worried that my wife and I would be sitting ducks when we are finally allowed public contact again. In other words, I have no hint of immunity and the bug is still lurking out there.
Rumor has it that hydroxychloroquine provides some protective effect against the coronavirus. Really? Tell me more!
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