WHO pauses trial of hydroxychloroquine, once touted by Trump as a ‘game changer,’ over safety concerns

MSNBC ^ | 5/26/2020 | Tim Elfrink

[jerod]

They WHO gives this drug to millions yearly to fight malaria... Will those millions now be denied this drug?

[1Old Pro]

Oh, and the WHO is not a political farce.

[DarthVader]

I could care less what the WHO says or does. They are ground zero for a bombing or missile attack!

[SmokingJoe]

WHO is about as relevant as The Who (pop group) when it comes to controlling what drugs are prescribed in America. They are totally irrelevant.

[headstamp 2]

Big Pharma sure has pull these days.

They should tell them its for abortions and everything would be fine.

[shalom aleichem]

WHO is (A) Hopelessly Politicized and (B) in the pocket of PRC.

[californian by choice]

the issue is how many people will benefit from taking this drug and on the other hand how many would be harmed and at what level.

[butlerweave]

MSNBC and the WHO = one massive pile of Manure

[Mrs. Don-o]

Article by Brazilian scientists who have evaluated some published HCQ Hydroxychloroquine studies and report that docs inadvertently or knowingly gave fatal overdoses to very debilitated or dying COVID sufferers, then claimed them as HCQ deaths.

Read Here (LINK)

[alstewartfan]

HCQ has worked well for many. Leftist scientists do not care if more people die by denying this drug (with zinc) to them.

[Dutch Boy]

All drugs have dangerous side affects. I recently discovered that OTC Naproxen I was taking for a shoulder injury cause my blood pressure to go way beyond what the BP charts claim is Critical and to seek medical attention immediately. Naproxen is still on the shelf.

The greatest danger that hydroxychloroquine has is that it will make a vaccine unnecessary. I vote for your Option #1 as the real reason the WHO and others don’t want it to work. Also, Orange Man bad.

[stars & stripes forever]

Looks like MSM and WHO is upping the ante...

Risks complicate reopenings as WHO warns 1st wave not over

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/risks-complicate-reopenings-as-who-warns-1st-wave-not-over/ar-BB14AUwI?ocid=spartanntp

[dfwgator]

Let’s stop all Chemotherapy for Cancer patients.

[USMC79to83]

Allow me to state this another way...

Hydroxychloroquine is:

1. A "dangerous" drug, that will make your heart explode just by saying it's name. No one should ever, ever take it. Ever.
2. A "life-saving" drug for the treatment of Malaria, Arthritis and Lupus. Using it for the 'Rona is killing millions of those who need it.

[aquila48]

Politics trumps EVERYTHING!

There is nothing you can take at face value anymore.

[AJFavish]

For years, this is what the CDC has said about hydroxychloroquine: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/resources/pdf/fsp/drugs/Hydroxychloroquine.pdf

[Jan_Sobieski]

Next thing on the WHO’s chopping block will be Quinine and Sun 🌞

[Steve_Seattle]

In sixty years, no one questioned the safety of HCQ. People took it short-term for malaria prevention, and long-term for lupus and arthritis. As with all drugs, even OTC drugs, there are some contraindications, but it had an excellent safety profile.

But then Trump - based on some reports he had heard from France and elsewhere - mentioned that it might be an effective treatment for the corona virus. Suddenly, the media and health organizations began treating HCQ as equivalent to a dangerous street drug - "Trump is touting an 'unproven' drug, and it could kill you." The fact that Trump had mentioned the drug became an obsession; HCQ became the "drug touted by Trump," as if he'd read about it in a comic book. It is one of the weirdest things I've seen in my entire life.

[nagant]

Trump busted Tedros, head of the WHO, for facilitating China’s deception. Together they at minimum allowed the virus to explode all over the world. Probably the head of the WHO facilitated this after the virus was released from a Chinese bioweapons lab. Now the head of WHO looks poised to lose his job and millions of income from China. But no, he’s not pissed about that.

Whether hydroxychloroquine passes or fails, according to the left, orange man bad because he advertised hope for a treatment.

[Mom MD]

Or it does not help in hospitalized patients and is likely harmful in those critically ill with cardiac involvement. How about we stick to the facts and leave the politics out of it