Posted on 08/20/2021 8:56:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The renowned French scientist and virologist Didier Raoult -- who promoted the hydroxychloroquine drug -- could lose his post as head of Marseille's infectious diseases institute after the head of the city’s hospital system said it was time to find a successor.
Didier Raoult promoted the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a cheap treatment for Covid-19 at a time when the method was also being advocated without evidence by former US president Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro.
Several studies, including one by the World Health Organization, have found hydroxychloroquine ineffective in treating Covid-19.
France banned use of the drug in May 2020.
Raoult heads up the infectious diseases institute (IHU) at Marseille University Hospital whose clinical studies are currently being investigated by the French medicines agency.
He is also a researcher and medical practitioner at the University of Aix-Marseille but has hit retirement age.
Professor Jean-Luc Jouve, head of the city's medical commission, told French daily Le Monde on Thursday that 69-year-old Raoult had requested to continue in his post at the hospital on a part-time basis, but that his proposal would not be accepted.
Francois Cremieux, the head of Marseille's hospital system, told the newspaper that it was not reasonable for the virologist to carry on at the IHU once he is no longer conducting university research.
He and other senior regional medical executives are to launch a procedure in September to find a successor to the 69-year-old scientist.
"There is a need to turn a page and organise the future of the IHU for the next 20 years," Cremieux said.
Raoult has cultivated an anti-establishment persona and is seen as a local hero by some in the southern French city of Marseille which prides itself on its independence from Parisian orthodoxy.
The hashtag #TouchePasARaoult (Hands off Raoult) has been trending on Twitter.
The virologist has strong support among opponents of France's health pass, notably hard-right politician Florian Philippot who has launched a petition in his support.
Raoult has released videos on the IHU's YouTube channel throughout the pandemic, picking up more than half a million subscribers. One where he discusses the resurgence of the epidemic among vaccinated people has been viewed three million times.
"L'Islande a plus de cas maintenant que jamais alors que l'Islande est le pays qui a été le plus vacciné de tous les pays développés", a dit @raoult_didier dans une vidéo de l'@IHU_Marseille
⚠️ Attention, ces propos manquent de contexte
➡️https://t.co/6cKJD3y1TD— AFP Factuel 🔎 (@AfpFactuel) August 18, 2021
While he has stated his support for the "systematic vaccination of healthworkers", one of his recent videos appeared to cast doubt on the efficacy of vaccination as a weapon to fight the pandemic. "While Iceland has vaccinated more than any other developed country, it now has more infections than ever," he said.
However he failed to mention that having vaccinated more than 90 percent of its population (356,991 in 2019), just 7 Covid patients are currently in ICUs in Iceland and 30 people have died from Covid, according to the country's official figures.
Jean-Luc Jouve said the virologist was giving "grist to the mill of conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers" noting that some 95 percent of Covid patients in intensive care in French hospitals were not vaccinated.
All of them. Just looking at different sides of the situation. Iceland is getting a lot of infections but few are dying of them. Two facts, present at the same time and place.
Same case in Spain and Portugal and the UK and Israel.
I think you meant post #12.
Please, read the last paragraph in that post. It is not a question of who is telling the truth or not, but what you want to get out of the vaccination program.
Yes, according to the Icelandic data the vaccine works. Relatively fewer people are infected who are vaccinated than those who are unvaccinated. And possibly also the severity of the disease is reduced (at least that is the findings elsewhere).
No, according to the Icelandic data it does not work. The number of infected persons is the highest during the whole pandemic, and this is threatening the Icelandic health-care system (according to the cited journal).
That is why there is such a fierce debate over the mass-vaccination program. Data indicates that the at least initially the number of patients have been much reduced in countries/areas where there have been a good vaccine coverage. However, some virologists/epidemiologists have warned that mass-vaccination during an ongoing epidemic will push the virus towards vaccine resistant variants. At the moment I think it looks like they are right.
Therefore the vaccines ought to be used much more intelligently: several different vaccines used (not only by different manufacturers, but different principles), risk groups vaccinated preferentially, medication used to reduce severity of disease.
Nobody knows for sure, and HCQ has a number of pharmacological effects that could be useful re COVID-19.
However, in cell cultures it has been shown that HCQ + Zn is much more effective in reducing the virus gowth than just HCQ. Zn-ions are known to inhibit the enzyme needed for the virus to replicate, and HCQ is also known to act as “gate” for Zn to enter the cells. The logic of these findings is that at least one of the mechanisms of HCQ is to allow Zn into the cells, stopping the virus replication.
The research group of Professor Raoult has shown that patients with low Zn levels in their blood have a much higher risk of severe disease and death.
Thank you ScaniaBoy - that is very helpful.
xlnt k,
close to BB standards
**blush**
Designed to fail. You got that right.
Blue plum link says mid 90% vax in Iceland
Yours says 68%
So who’s being truthful
That’s my question
As for me.
I have serious question on mRNA blood clot issues
I doubt the efficacy given so many breakthroughs and even deaths in the ranks of the vaxxed
I also doubt the veracity of the medical political tech media science complex over this since they seemed hellbent on destroying Trump with Covid and maintaining their narrative ...
I also know the body count is inaccurate given the govt pays for Covid related deaths in hospitals ...way overblown yet I also know it kills healthy low risk folks and that is the problem
I also....lastly....don’t like mandates and see vax as govt power reach which is why the left supports what we here mostly do not
I am not anti vax ..if they worked ....and I know inactive virus vax is far off sadly
I’m glad my antibodies count is 18 times baseline ...because I had Covid 18 months ago and despite being extremely high risk it was very mild but I dosed malaria protocol prophylaxis and therapeutic with plaquenil and Zithromax and zinc elixir....a vile substance btw
But the not easy to trust above mentioned complex poo pooed this to hurt trump....calling plaquenil oh so deadly which is utter nonsense and a lie
We are in a failed state folks
The election
Covid response
Afghan defeat
This is what a slow death of a republic looks like with a mostly fat lazy apathetic populace
It’s pitiful
Hattip pelham on inactive vax updates
Obviously the spike protein vaxxxers are after this Frenchman and are out to oust him from his important position. Even though he is pro-vaxxxx for medical workers, this is not enough so...
Off with his head!
CORRUPT BIG PHARMA PURGING anyone who is a threat.
After a cursory read of the link in blueplum’s post I could not find the data showing 90+ vaccine rate. I guess those data come from another source. The difference between the data in the article I quoted can be due to a lot of reasons:
different dates, comparison with whole population vs population intended to vaccinate (ie with or without children), in Iceland a lot of people were vaccinated with the Janssen vaccine (single dose), now those people are offered booster injection - are the single dose counted as a complete course or not?
And similar discrepancy in data reporting is found re number of infected persons, hospitalizations, deaths, side-effects etc etc.
Some are due to different definitions, some due to faulty collection of data. In some cases one can definitely suspect that data is chosen to support preferred story.
When it comes to the early outpatient treatment of COVID-19, there is no doubt; we are looking at a medical scandal of historical proportions. A case in point: very late in the game the NIH decided to start a large study on HCQ in ambulatory patients. Only days later the Lancet and NEJM published papers from Surgisphere. The MSM goes ballistic and this and other studies on HCQ are stopped and abandoned. A few weeks later the papers are retracted! A coincidence? I think not? Of course the medical establishments in Western countries are very much affected by US reports and MSM. However, local conditions also play a role. Here in Sweden HCQ was used early on in the only setting where patients were treated, in hospitals and ICU:s. Not surprisingly the effetct was not good, especially as Zn and D-vitamines were not used. Our pre-hospital care is just not equipped to make any studies, and there it remains.
Good to hear you came through the infection without any major problems.
Stay well FRiend
-is the single dose...
“Ivermectin is also a “smart drug” that will kill you if it knows you’re using it for the wrong things, like pretending you’re a horse, and whatnot.”
Well by gosh.... that explains the uncontrollable urge to neigh from time to time.
This reminds me of the streetcar debacle in the U.S. Most major cities had streetcars run on rails by electricity on all major routes. But when the car and bus lobbyists got done with the legislatures, miles and miles of rail were torn up at massive cost to taxpayers, changing the traffic patterns to bus lines, and disrupting businesses and neighborhoods. THEN air pollution, greenhouse gases and fossil fuels became a thing, and now they're trying to force electric vehicles down our throats. Too bad we got rid of all the established electric mass transit lines, oh, 50-60 years ago.
At this rate, the citizenry of 2071 will discover the affordable preventative to SARS infections, hydroxychloroquine.
RFI is literally “state media” and not to be trusted on a lot of things.
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