Posted on 05/27/2020 10:53:33 PM PDT by rintintin
T The Indian government's biomedical research organization will continue to recommend hydroxychloroquine as a way to ward off coronavirus infection despite global health experts increasingly expressing skepticism about the drug's safety and efficacy.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said it advises people working with COVID-19 patients take hydroxychloroquine to prevent infections, while also recommending that health care workers continue to use personal protective equipment (PPE). On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced they are temporarily pausing a trial of the drug over safety concerns.
"It should be continued because there is no harm. Benefit may be there," ICMR Director-General Balram Bhargava said at a press conference on Tuesday. "Based on looking at the risk [and] benefit, we found that possibly we should not deny our frontline workers and health care workers who are going to be dealing with the patients of COVID."
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Hurrah Gunga Din ...
The WHO is disgusting.
Articles like this gives credence to the idea that there is some world-wide conspiracy to keep people sick and afraid.
“India Promotes Hydroxychloroquine, as WHO Stops Trials Over ALLEGED Safety Issues”.
Corrected for accuracy.
The alleged issues have not been proven.
OK who ya gonna believe?
This from a politically motivated deep state operative
or this from ScienceDirect International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924857920300881#bib0055
and this:
And the W.H.O. didn’t have a problem with folks with rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or malaria taking it?
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