Posted on 05/27/2020 8:54:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday said there's no evidence that shows the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine is effective at treating COVID-19.
"Clearly the scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy for it," Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease doctor, said during a CNN interview.
Fauci said evidence also shows the likelihood that the drug can cause severe irregular heart rhythms.
"There was suspicion of that for a while, but as data comes in, it becomes more clear," Fauci said.
The pronouncements mark Fauci's strongest warnings yet against the drug and puts him at odds with President Trump, who has embraced the drug as a "game changer" and a "miracle."
Earlier this month, Trump even said he had been taking hydroxychloroquine, in combination with zinc, as a way to prevent getting COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. He called the research on hospitalized patients a Trump enemy statement.
I think it gives you an additional level of safety, Trump said at the time, downplaying warnings that the drug can cause heart problems in certain patients.
To date, Fauci has told Americans not to assume the drug could be a "knockout" against the virus, because the clinical evidence on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine was lacking.
Earlier this month, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci leads, announced a 2,000-patient study to determine whether hydroxychloroquine, when combined with the antibiotic azithromycin, can prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19."
"Although there is anecdotal evidence that hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin may benefit people with COVID-19, we need solid data from a large randomized, controlled clinical trial, Fauci said in a statement announcing the trial.
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Does this tool work for the ChiComs, too?
More for me if I need it then.
A poster boy for the success of the Peter Principle.
Enough Faucism
Fauci Approved Chloroquine: https://truepundit.com/cover-up-fauci-approved-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-15-years-ago-to-treat-nobody-needed-to-die/
I wish he would just go quietly into the night.
Does this tool work for the ChiComs, too?
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Since gain of function research got funded in China by the US under his watch and he constantly negates facts with his mouth, yes.
I think he is still gaming this. Some people use HCQ incorrectly (without zinc and an antibiotic). And, if administered incorrectly, I guess it doesn’t work so well. But for him to just say HCQ doesn’t work seems like a bold statement.
And to say “there’s no evidence” also seems faulty. There is evidence. Whether or not the evidence is convincing may be a fair question. But to say there is no evidence is another bold statement.
😠🤧😷Agreed!
Someone should paint his house.
I wonder how many deaths this guy has caused with his lies about this obviously effective drug. How many could have been saved if treated?
“...Although there is anecdotal evidence that hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin may benefit people with COVID-19...”
Just go away Fauci until you have SOLID EVIDENCE IT DOES NOT HELP.....just go away.
1. This is a FauXi-BOUGHT (with US taxpayer money) virus
which he paid for, and planned to use to force vaccines
and make himself famous.
2. FauXi, never sees patients, DARED to make this
a disease determined by: symptoms and signs
rather than REAL MICROBIAL data.
why?
fake data for control and to ruin the USA (done)
3. FauXi KNOWS HCQ works. wants vaccines.
FauXi destroyed all of human DNA with his
HIV-laden monstrosity.
Where is the NSA and army when we need them?
asleep apparently.
So the FDA should ban all use of this drug for everything because it is dangerous. Not safe enough to use for a deadly virus but ok for Lupus. Got it.
“Fauci said evidence also shows the likelihood that the drug can cause severe irregular heart rhythms.”
So it’s not safe and all uses should be banned. Sorry about that people with lupus, malaria and rheumatoid arthritis. How many millions and millions of deaths have been caused by this dangerous drug? They say this drug is more dangerous than fentanyl.
the French study was over 1000 patients with over 90 percent treatment success, and the reports from over a dozen other countries are in accord
either this fellow is totally ignorant or else he’s working for the PRC bioweapons people, or? i do not trust him anymore
HCQ without zinc is like a gun without bullets. And that detail is deliberately omitted by those seeking to bash Trump at the expense of Americans needing treatment for Covid.
that was the other thing.
HCQ reverses some atrial fibrillations.
FauXi knows no medicine, only the ani of pelosi, xi and hrc.
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