Posted on 08/13/2020 6:53:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Harvey Risch is a Yale epidemiologist with over 7,000 results on Google Scholar. On May 27, he published an opinion in the American Journal of Epidemiology after reviewing the available evidence on the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), zinc, and antibiotics in outpatient settings for COVID-19. He later wrote an editorial for Newsweek advocating for the drug combination to treat patients in the early stages of COVID-19 on an outpatient basis.
I wrote about the study on June 27. It came to my attention via e-mail from a retired high-ranking physician in the military rather than the media or our national Health Experts™. By that time, having researched the virus and how HCQ, azithromycin (AZT), and zinc work, the idea that it could benefit patients early in a COVID-19 infection seemed more than logical. To become a registered nurse, I had to take college-level biology, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, and microbiology. I have a high degree of confidence in my reading of the literature.
I was motivated to take a look at the research when the media freaked out after President Trump said he was hopeful that two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir, would help reduce suffering related to COVID-19. The corporate media flew into a full-on rampage to create fear about HCQ. After reviewing the studies and other information myself, I can absolutely characterize the reporting at the time as uninformed, politically motivated, and a gross display of misinformation.
Dr. Risch wrote his editorial after a review of both observational studies and peer-reviewed studies on the use of HCQ, azithromycin, and zinc
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
We got PJ Media, townhall and breitbart getting the word out there for us. All the biggies :)
The other side only has cbs, nbc, abc, cnn, msnbc, aol, washington post, la times, , yahoo, AP, Vice, Vox...
We got em right where we want em!! :)
Twitter actually leveled the playing field last time.
I hope it does the same again, notwithstanding their efforts to change that.
And we have to get every single person who is breathing to the polls to vote for Trump
Or we can be like dems and get those who are not breathing there also :)
The pushback has been furious. Dr. Anthony Fauci has implied that I am incompetent, notwithstanding my hundreds of highly regarded, methodologically relevant publications in peer-reviewed scientific literature. A group of my Yale colleagues has publicly intimated that I am a zealot who is perpetrating a dangerous hoax and conspiracy theory. I have been attacked in news articles by journalists who, ignorant of the full picture, have spun hit pieces from cherry-picked sources.
These personal attacks are a dangerous distraction from the real issue of hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness, which is solidly grounded in both substantial evidence and appropriate medical decision-making logic. Much of the evidence is presented in my articles.
The editorial is most impressive because Dr. Risch insists on keeping the focus on public health. He says he has argued his case privately with the Food and Drug Administration and details the resistance he has met and the irresponsible statements by the agency, given the decades-long safety profile of HCQ and its routine off-label outpatient use.
In fact, the FDA has no information about adverse events in early outpatient use of hydroxychloroquine. The only available systematic information about adverse events among outpatients is discussed in my article in the American Journal of Epidemiology, where I show that hydroxychloroquine has been extremely safe in more than a million users.
It is a serious and unconscionable mistake that the FDA has used inpatient data to block emergency use petitions for outpatient use. Further, already back in March, the FDA approved the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized patients, for whom it is demonstrably less effective than for outpatients. If hydroxychloroquine satisfied the FDA criteria for emergency inpatient use in March, it should more than satisfy those criteria now for outpatient use, where the evidence is much stronger.
He also points out the failures of the studies Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and others have cited to smear him. Risch did not consider studies that looked at hospitalized patients. He agrees that the medication is likely of limited value once patients have reached a stage where they need to be hospitalized:
I reiterate: If doctors, including any of my Yale colleagues, tell you that scientific data show that hydroxychloroquine does not work in outpatients, they are revealing that they can’t tell the difference between low-risk patients who are not generally treated and high-risk patients who need to be treated as quickly as possible. Doctors who do not understand this difference should not be treating COVID-19 patients.
He is not the first clinician to say so; several from the group America’s Frontline Doctors concur.
Dr. Risch suggests that financial motives could be in play. This seems to be the only logical explanation, especially since the costly drug remdesivir has been endorsed by health experts, despite it having not been shown to reduce mortality. It would be tragic for pharma profiteers if a cheap generic prevented people from needing hospitalization.
Dr. Risch bottom-lines the issue in his conclusion (emphasis mine):
Whatever the reason for the FDA’s stonewalling on hydroxychloroquine, this much is certain: Americans are dying unnecessarily, the economy is in disarray, and the threads that bind our society together have frayed. I am speaking out, but where is everyone else? Where are our elected officials, including those who are themselves physicians? Some, including Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, have been discussing evidence of the drug’s effectiveness, but where are the rest?
This issue should not be a partisan one. If our elected officials are not willing to pry open the FDA, we must elect new officials. Why are we silent? The time to speak is now.
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But if everyone had access to HCQ+AZT+ZINC we never would have been able to destroy the Economy and keep everyone locked down while keeping Joe Biden hidden from the Public. And besides it only reduced the sickness by 84% and deaths by 50% where it was used.
They’ve murdered over 144,000 Americans. Trump might as well shout it out loud and clear and EO the disbursement of these meds over the counter.
And then many governors banned the use in their sates. How in the hell is this even legal? HIPPA is the law and it is being violated continually and politicians interfering and killing people with their political machinations.
How can it possibly be legal for governors to interfere with doctors and their patients?
HCQ is literally the “damn wrench in the gears” of the Globalists’ plan to take over the country and the world.
Truth be known, the communists have ALL probably been on it since a week before the planned/colluded virus release date.
The POTUS should do everything within his power to have HCQ made an over-the-counter medicine allowing the People to decide on taking it or not. THAT would end this “virus” BS once and for all. Then, those behind the collusion should be hunted down like the animals they are, arrested, tried and hanged for mass murder and crimes against humanity.
Dr. Fauci — Dr. Death
“...How can it possibly be legal for governors to interfere with doctors and their patients?...”
It isn’t, and they should be arrested, tried and executed for mass murder and crimes against humanity.
Amen
I resent being compared to Fauci
Dr FAKEY....he’s never treated a patient, in his office...because he’s ALWAYS worked for gov’t, NOT seeing patients.
l8r
Bump
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Agreed!
It isn’t just merely disinformation....
It is actually Government entities and unelected pharmacy boards FORBIDDING the use of drugs that have been in safe and successful use for decades.
“How Many Lives Will the Health Experts’™ Bizarre Hydroxychloroquine Disinformation Campaign Cost?”
As many as it takes...
Follow the money from Big Pharma to Dr. Fauci to FDA.
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