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Indonesia, major advocate of Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19, told by WHO to stop using it
Reuters ^ | 05/26/2020 | Kate Lamb, Tom Allard

Posted on 05/26/2020 8:42:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The World Health Organization has urged Indonesia, one of the world’s biggest advocates of two malaria drugs to treat the coronavirus, to suspend such treatment over safety concerns, a source familiar with the advice told Reuters on Tuesday.

Any decision by Indonesia to halt use of the drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, in coronavirus patients would mark a major global shift away from a treatment which has been touted for months by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation, had told doctors to use the drugs to treat all COVID-19 patients with symptoms from mild to severe. The country has ramped up production since March, granting two dozen licenses to local manufacturers who have churned out millions of doses.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a recommendation not yet made public, said the WHO had sent a notice to Indonesia’s health ministry advising that use of the drugs should be suspended.

Erlina Burhan, a doctor who helped draft coronavirus treatment guidelines as a member of the Indonesian Association of Pulmonologists, confirmed that the association had also received new advice from the WHO to suspend use of the drugs.

“We discussed the issues and there are still some disputes. We have no conclusion yet,” she told Reuters.

A spokesperson for the WHO mission in Indonesia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Indonesia’s health ministry, Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) and the spokesman for Indonesia’s COVID-19 taskforce were not immediately available to comment.

Last week, the Lancet medical journal published the most comprehensive study to date on the drugs, which found that coronavirus patients prescribed them were more likely to experience heart rhythm disturbances and more likely to die.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; hcq; hcqtreatment; hydroxychloroquine; india; indonesia; who
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1 posted on 05/26/2020 8:42:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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So that should include any use of HC, even Malaria.


2 posted on 05/26/2020 8:44:11 AM PDT by AU72
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Can’t make any money on it, so outlaw it even though it works.


3 posted on 05/26/2020 8:46:06 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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Dr. Elizabeth Vliet said in an interview that about 8 countries have successfully used hydroxychloroquine as a frontline COVID treatment, including Korea, China, and Brazil. Don't happen to recall the others.
4 posted on 05/26/2020 8:46:08 AM PDT by Missouri gal
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Our diplomats need to get to work getting others to defund WHO.


5 posted on 05/26/2020 8:46:37 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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RE: So that should include any use of HC, even Malaria.

Not for Malaria,but for Covid-19.


6 posted on 05/26/2020 8:46:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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Indonesia, major advocate of Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19, told by WHO China to stop using it
7 posted on 05/26/2020 8:47:09 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SeekAndFind

The WHO, the Voice of China and its Virus.


8 posted on 05/26/2020 8:48:01 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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I hope that the US never gives WHO another dime. They are nothing more than a deep state political Op.


9 posted on 05/26/2020 8:48:17 AM PDT by Revel
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Not for Malaria,but for Covid-19.

WHO has gone insane.If using a drug is dangerous, it's dangerous for any use.

10 posted on 05/26/2020 8:49:00 AM PDT by AU72
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The W H O hasn’t much credibility left, does it?


11 posted on 05/26/2020 8:58:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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WHO receives A LOT of money from the BIG PHARMA money interests just like the CDC does. They are puppets. Their behavior here is no surprise...WHO should be trashed.


12 posted on 05/26/2020 8:59:26 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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WHO should be treated just like Democrats

whatever they say do the complete opposite

We should absolutely defunding -not give them a goddamn dime!

Hydroxy Clora Quinn obviously works and works excellently the president the United States even took it as a prophylactic

We all know the corrupt and greedy vaccine industry is rubbing their hands at this harum-scarum and knows if they’re going to make billions of dollars on the other end when they get all the Karen’s to line up and get a shot full of crap they probably will actually harm them and not protect them from any virus but they’ll still make billions anyway

The main problem is everybody including almost all the entire medical establishment has been completely programmed to think and talk about vaccines as the be-all answer to everything they are clearly not especially when it comes to viruses


13 posted on 05/26/2020 9:00:43 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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Indonesia should pull whatever funding they send to the WHO and tell them to pound sand.


14 posted on 05/26/2020 9:09:32 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Posting from deep within enemy territory - San Jose, CA)
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To: Revel

Who failed in their primary mission in containing the virus.


15 posted on 05/26/2020 9:10:24 AM PDT by desertfreedom765
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WHO wants people to die...pass it around


16 posted on 05/26/2020 9:14:39 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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Nuremburg trials needed for WHO mass murderers.


17 posted on 05/26/2020 9:54:38 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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"told by WHO"

Not me.


18 posted on 05/26/2020 9:56:06 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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I know someone who is prescribed HCQ for fibromyalgia. HCQ is presceibed as an off-label medication in the abscense of a real solution for FM.


19 posted on 05/26/2020 10:15:38 AM PDT by 353FMG (Oceans and oceans of snakeoil and not a paddle.)
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Don’t stop with just defunding WHO...take out the entire UN.


20 posted on 05/26/2020 10:17:55 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (It's the corruption, stupid)
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