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What is Gilead’s role in the war on Hydroxychloroquine?
American Thinker ^ | 08/25/2020 | Antonio R. Chaves

Posted on 08/26/2020 6:56:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Is Gilead, the maker of Remdesivir, waging war on HCQ (hydroxychloroquine)? Attacks on the drug have been continuous ever since Dr. Didier Raoult used this quinine derivative to save the lives of COVID-19 patients last March. The first attempt to discredit HCQ was a hastily compiled Veterans Administration hospital system study last April. Notably, one of the study’s authors had in the past received numerous grants from Gilead, with one grant in 2018 totaling nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

After deep flaws in the VA study were exposed, Surgisphere came to the rescue in May with a “15,000 patient” megastudy allegedly compiled from hospitals all over the world. This strategy succeeded: Following its publication in the Lancet and the NEJM, all outpatient use of HCQ was severely restricted in the U.S., Australia, and most of Europe.

When the Surgisphere scam was exposed, both articles were quietly retracted and the editor-in-chief of the Lancet tried to wash his hands of this embarrassing incident by denouncing Surgisphere’s “monumental fraud.” However only a few days earlier, Lancet editors played a major role in persuading WHO to suspend all trials for HCQ. Who put them up to it?

The study’s main author, Mandeep Mehra, also apologized for his reliance on a third party for the data.  He may not have known the data was fabricated, but the hospital he directed was conducting two trials for Remdesivir. Was he under pressure from his sponsors?


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; gilead; hcqtreatment; hydroxychloroquine; remdesivir
These are the stakes: A five-day treatment with Remdesivir costs around $3,000. A five-day supply of generic HCQ costs around $10. Drug companies have every right to recoup their cost of research and development, but lobbying to suppress access to a lifesaving treatment that is both cheaper and more effective is a crime against humanity.
1 posted on 08/26/2020 6:56:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Mrs. Don-o; tellw; Huskrrrr; Jane Long; Freedom'sWorthIt; Freedom56v2; BDParrish; Phx_RC

Ping as per your request...


2 posted on 08/26/2020 6:56:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Show me the MONEY!


3 posted on 08/26/2020 6:58:41 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Trump Train!!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Drug companies have every right to recoup their cost of research and development, but lobbying to suppress access to a lifesaving treatment that is both cheaper and more effective is a crime against humanity.”

There is no limit to what people will do for money.


4 posted on 08/26/2020 7:00:04 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: SeekAndFind

FauXi MADE the Atrocity to murder humans,
to change their DNA forever for Gates and Soros,
and to destroy America for Xi.

Good investment of taxpayer money?

No. it was illegal. F FauXi.


5 posted on 08/26/2020 7:01:37 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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To: SeekAndFind

Simple solution to the pandemic,,,,Make HCQ and Azithromycin OTC drugs so anyone who develops a cough and/or fever can go the nearest drug store and self medicate with the drugs along with Zinc Sulfate with correct dosage within 48 hours of symptoms and pandemic over.,,,,,instead of waiting a few days to get tested and 5 days for the results,,,,if over 60 years of age,,,,you’re dead.


6 posted on 08/26/2020 7:02:33 AM PDT by chopperk (L)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wouldn’t be surprised that there may be a Federal raid on Gilead to see if they were handing out slush money to certain public officials....


7 posted on 08/26/2020 7:13:01 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: chopperk

Not as long as FauXi is against it.


8 posted on 08/26/2020 7:14:56 AM PDT by no_go_lie
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To: SeekAndFind

TDS Kills!


9 posted on 08/26/2020 7:17:17 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are drug nation and it is all about money and getting more and more of it.

We have 6 or 8 docs in this town. Only two of them are legitimately practicing medicine. The rest are just pushing pain relief. Legalized drug peddlers. Disgusting.


10 posted on 08/26/2020 7:32:50 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
This is the graph which convinced me that Hydroxychloroquine works.

The Swiss government accepted the now repudiated Lancet study and outlawed HCQ. Then when the death rate jumped they legalized it again and the death rate dropped 12 days later. That not only shows that it works but shows the typical time between when the symptoms are bad enough to get medical treatment and death.

An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Besmirch (August 4, 2020)

11 posted on 08/26/2020 7:35:28 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’ve known for a long time that HCQ was safe & inexpensive. Then they come along with something MUCH more expensive & try to steer people away from HCQ....this situation is not too hard to see through. Tells me that they know there is a need to cure the covid virus, but only if some big bucks can be made. Why not go after a cure for something where is no
effective low cost cure already existing?


12 posted on 08/26/2020 7:50:03 AM PDT by oldtech
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Do pharamacists refuse giving out the abortion pills to doctors as they are doing to doctors seeking hydroxychloroquine packet to heal?

One of the ingredients of the two pill packet is being used off label causing death to a growing child in the mother’s womb.

“A nation that kills its own children is a nation without Hope.”
St. John Paul II, Pope


13 posted on 08/27/2020 7:03:42 AM PDT by victim soul (victim soul)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gilead’s just one small pinkie knuckle on the larger Pharma hand on the still larger globalist, America- and freedom-destroying body at work here.


14 posted on 08/27/2020 7:06:07 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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