Posted on 06/17/2020 8:28:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The federal government is stuck with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine now that the US Food and Drug Administration has revoked permission for the drug to be distributed to treat coronavirus patients.
The government started stockpiling donated hydroxychloroquine in late March, after President Trump touted it as "very encouraging" and "very powerful" and a "game-changer."
But Monday, the FDA revoked its emergency use authorization to use the drug to treat Covid-19, saying there was "no reason to believe" the drug was effective against the virus, and that it increased the risk of side effects, including heart problems.
That leaves the Strategic National Stockpile with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine, plus another 2 million doses of chloroquine, a related drug donated by Bayer, according to Carol Danko, a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Many public health experts point to all of this as an unfortunate chapter in the history of the pandemic thus far.
"Nationally, we put a great emphasis on one drug, hydroxychloroquine," said David Holtgrave, the dean of the School of Public Health at the University at Albany, who co-authored a study of the drug as a treatment for coronavirus. "I worry that history will judge this as having over-invested in one treatment pathway as opposed to looking more broadly at a larger number of treatment candidates."
Before the FDA revoked its authorization, the stockpile had already distributed 31 million doses. Novartis and Mylan donated doses of the drug to the stockpile.
"HHS is working with the companies that donated the product to determine the available options for the product that remains in the Strategic National Stockpile," Danko wrote in a statement to CNN.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
[[sweet wormwood supplements will do the same thing as hcq]]
Even in healthy people it can cause serious problems- it’s not benign- people need to really do some serious research on it and decide if they wanna take it- especially, as you say, people with health conditions- it is ‘likely safe’ in very small doses for healthy people- in small doses- the following likely won’t happen, but could even in very healthy people- so again- folks need to decide whether they wanna take it based on serious research-
“When taken by mouth, thujone can cause seizures, muscle breakdown (rhabdomyolysis), kidney failure, restlessness, difficulty sleeping, nightmares, vomiting, stomach cramps, dizziness, tremors, changes in heart rate, urine retention, thirst, numbness of arms and legs, paralysis, and death. “
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-729/wormwood
Thank you
Hard to keep from laughing at the childish antics of grown men and women of the MSM.
transcript:
15 Jun: White House: Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion on Fighting for America’s Seniors
THE PRESIDENT: I’d like to ask Alex, maybe, to discuss that.
SECRETARY AZAR: Sure. So just to clarify: Your statement there, I don’t think, was quite accurate in what the FDA’s action was. The FDA, at the request of BARDA, which is an agency within HHS, withdrew an Emergency Use Authorization for a product that we had acquired into the National Stockpile by donation from Bayer of hydroxy- — of chloroquine that was manufactured in Pakistan. And the EUA — the Emergency Use Authorization — was restricted for hospital use — in-patient hospital use of the product, with the FDA finding that they don’t see enough data to support hospital-based use for those who are the most extreme cases of patients who have been hospitalized. They took that restriction off. They took the Emergency Use Authorization off.
At this point, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are just like any other approved drug in the United States. They may be used in hospital, they may be used in out-patient, they may be used at home — all subject to a doctor’s prescription. In fact, the FDA’s removal of the EUA takes away what had been a significant misunderstanding by many that had made people think that somehow it could only be used in a hospital setting. And we’ve tried to make that clear throughout.
It’s a drug. It’s approved in the United States. Has been for decades. If a doctor wishes to prescribe it, working with a patient, they may prescribe it for any purpose that they wish to do so. And this actually removes a potential barrier to that.
THE PRESIDENT: So it actually un-complicates it —
SECRETARY AZAR: It does.
THE PRESIDENT: — in a way. And I think that’s probably — your question was a very inaccurately stated question.
Q No, I didn’t mean to — I didn’t mean to pose it inaccurately. I believe what it said specifically was that it’s no longer reasonable to consider it an appropriate treatment.
SECRETARY AZAR: Only in the hospital. It said the data in the hospital setting was not supported. We continue to study in out-patient settings, as well as preventive. That data is not yet in.
Q Are you suggesting that data in the hospital setting is not something you would take seriously?
SECRETARY AZAR: No, that’s why the FDA acted. It was that they looked at the data and they removed the Emergency Use Authorization for hospital-setting use of the chloroquine that was the Bayer product that had been donated from Pakistan...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-roundtable-discussion-fighting-americas-seniors/
Just think, if we had spent all this time, money and effort on getting ventilators to New York all those patients in the halls waiting for one, wouldn’t have had to die. Doctors wouldn’t have been forced to choose who received a ventilator and who unfortunately would have to die without one. Tragic, really.
Need to get rid of these government agencies
Quercetin, an over the counter drug, is also a zinc ionophore.
novel length, insane, anti-Trump attack from NYT...as usual:
16 Jun: NYT: A Mad Scramble to Stock Millions of Malaria Pills, Likely for Nothing
Before the F.D.A. withdrew its waiver to stockpile the drugs as coronavirus treatments, the Trump administration had embarked on a headlong effort to import tens of millions of doses.
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
Medical experts across the country — including those who are researching hydroxychloroquine — on Tuesday applauded the F.D.A.’s withdrawal of the waiver after it concluded the drugs’ potential benefits did not outweigh their risks...
Besides Mr. Navarro, the internal debate over the malaria drugs included a well-known cast of characters: Mr. Trump, who took hydroxychloroquine for two weeks and insisted on Monday that it “certainly didn’t hurt me”; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert; Rick Bright, who said he was ousted from his position as head of a federal research agency after complaining that Bayer’s chloroquine was not safe; and various Fox News personalities.
“They had a flimsy basis for the E.U.A. in the first place,” Dr. Peter Lurie, the president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said, using the abbreviation for emergency use authorization. “It’s quite clear they were strong-armed into it by Navarro himself and others — not excluding radio, television talk show hosts, the president’s pals and some doctor in New York. And now they’ve got mud on their faces because they’ve belatedly come to their senses and done the right thing.”
Dr. Bright, writing on Twitter on Monday night, offered his own idea: “The drugs should never have been brought into our country and should be destroyed. It took far too long for HHS to revoke this EUA.”...
(FINALLY, NEAR THE END) The decision does not prevent doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine, also available through pharmacies, on their own, though it will probably discourage them from doing so...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/16/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html
Um?
Good time too stock up! The way things are going, we may need it for it’s original intended use soon!
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I”ll bid $100 for the whole lot.
Exactly!
hanged
The FDA has since flipped on this.
Researchers in London found Dexamethasone, as another cheap, effective drug. The comments in the article’s comments section know what’s up.
no, the FDA announcement was either inaccurately reported, or FDA intentionally made their announcement unclear.
Azar corrected them.
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