Posted on 08/08/2020 9:52:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The battle over hydroxychloroquine began as a kind of trivial but apparently earnest and hopeful celebrity endorsement of the drug (the celebrity being President Trump). It has devolved into a real political and public-discourse horror show.
Perpetual back-and-forths between those prominent doctors who do not believe in the drug’s effectiveness — coronavirus task force members Anthony Fauci and Brett Giroir are two — and dissident, lesser-known doctors, such as Harvey Risch of Yale University, have given birth to serious questions about how truly scientific the whole conversation has been.
Can hydroxychloroquine be used effectively to treat COVID-19? The most prominent voices say no, citing several randomized controlled trials, but others say it is, citing their own clinical evidence.
The question that nobody seems to be asking is, what is the standard of evidence required for granting emergency use authorizations, or EUAs, for drugs in the first place? And what are the limits of various kinds of clinical trials?
The Food and Drug Administration approved an EUA for use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in hospitalized patients on March 28. Importantly, for the purpose of reinforcing distinct categories, its authorization was for a targeted use: hospitalized patients. When the FDA authorized the drug, there was no significant evidence of effectiveness from randomized controlled trials, or RCTs.
In a March 28 letter on authorization, FDA Chief Scientist Denise Hinton wrote, “Based upon limited in-vitro and anecdotal clinical data in case series, chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate are currently recommended for treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in several countries … FDA is issuing this EUA to facilitate the availability of chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate during the COVID-19 pandemic to treat patients for whom a clinical trial is not available, or participation is not feasible.”
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It is an ionophore
Not tropical, Baffin Island instead.
Trump has become a politician and he’s taking his dues from political advisors. A couple of weeks ago he mentioned, in passing, that maybe we’re doing too much testing. And he’s not said another word about it since.
Make that dues not dues.
Make that cues not dues.
The Great 2021 GLOBAL RESET can’t be pulled off unless another 200,000 or so Americans are murdered - er - killed - er - die!
Doctors using it *in combination with zinc* report 100% recovery rates. Even with people who are in bad shape when they start treatment.
To “de-bunk” its use, they have had to do studies easily exposed as fraudulent.
With so many people’s lives at stake, you have to ask yourself why the medical bureaucracy fights so hard to keep people from using it. The implications are truly wicked.
Essentially, no one had to die.
You may not believe it, but he said it did not matter - just get it into your system every day. I picked a mid-level dosage just to be safe. He said that zinc is the key, the querceitn just opens the door and lets it in.
Good luck with this!
perhaps the CDC and NIH will prove your point...but if they won’t or can’t...”sombody’s got some “splainin’ to do”
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