Posted on 05/10/2020 11:30:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Senate’s top Democrat on Sunday called on the Department of Veterans Affairs to explain why it allowed the use of an unproven drug on veterans for the coronavirus, saying patients may have been put at unnecessary risk.
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said the VA needs to provide Congress more information about a recent bulk order for $208,000 worth of hydroxychloroquine. President Donald Trump has heavily promoted the malaria drug, without evidence, as a treatment for COVID-19.
Schumer's request comes after a whistleblower complaint filed this past week by former Health and Human Services official Rick Bright alleged that the Trump administration, eager for a quick fix to the onslaught of coronavirus, wanted to “flood” hot spots in New York and New Jersey with the drug. Major veterans organizations have urged VA to explain under what circumstances VA doctors initiate discussion of hydroxychloroquine with veterans as a treatment option.
“There are concerns that they are using this drug when the medical evidence says it doesn’t help and could hurt,” Schumer said in an interview with The Associated Press.
He said given the fact the malaria drug, despite being untested, had been repeatedly pushed publicly by Trump, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie must address whether anyone at the department was pressured by the White House or the administration to use hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19.
Schumer said Wilkie also should answer questions about a recent analysis of VA hospital data that showed there were more deaths among patients given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, including how much patients knew about the drug’s risks before taking it.
Wilkie in recent weeks has denied that veterans were used as test subjects for the drug and that it was instead administered at government-run VA hospitals only when medically appropriate, with mutual consent between doctor and patient.
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Because it works? But that would be irrelevant to Schumer.
“I got the virus and was hospitalized.....I was hours away from moving to the ICU when they gave me HCQ. I left the hospital 4 days later virus free and after a week back to work,”
I know someone with the exact same story and outcome.
Good list
There is something fishy about the whole thing. Follow the money or follow the politics.
“Why Are You Using An Unproven Drug, Hydroxychloroquine On Vets With COVID-19?”
“Well, it is cheap and it works!”
Somebody give psychopath Schumer a shot of “horse equinine virus medicine” to shut him up, permanently, I hope. He is the best example of a “horse’s ass”, or as a Democrat Party leader, a “jackass’s ass”.
Schumer makes Charles Manson sound like a Rhodes Scholar.
Schumer is the Democrat Senators equivalent of Virginia Governor Ralph “Dr. Mengele” Northam on how to help kill the new born and ill.
They are like “Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde”.
Schmuck wants us to die.
Schumer wants to see them die because it will hurt Trump. These people are disgusting!!!
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