Posted on 07/28/2020 6:00:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly.
I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.
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That article, published in the world's leading epidemiology journal, analyzed five studies, demonstrating clear-cut and significant benefits to treated patients, plus other very large studies that showed the medication safety.
Physicians who have been using these medications in the face of widespread skepticism have been truly heroic. They have done what the science shows is best for their patients, often at great personal risk. I myself know of two doctors who have saved the lives of hundreds of patients with these medications, but are now fighting state medical boards to save their licenses and reputations. The cases against them are completely without scientific merit.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
See post 21, as well as the back up article(s)...
Opinion: Fauci Knew About HCQ In 2005 – Nobody Needed To Die
http://www.nw-connection.com/?p=6147
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/
AFAIK, the FDA has not rescinded its disapproval of HCQ use for Covid-19..................
Did anyone hear this doctor on Hannity’s radio show yesterday? He was talking about the FDA not wanting to authorize HCQ and I wanted to read exactly what he said.
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