The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to give emergency authorization for convalescent plasma as a treatment for novel coronavirus patients — touted as a historic breakthrough by President Trump on Sunday — is raising doubts among some experts who say the therapy hasn’t been adequately tested.
“The urgency of the crisis has elided with a false sense we should skip over rigorous studies of interventions because we don’t have enough time,” Peter Bach, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Center for Health Policy and Outcomes, told The Washington Post.
Gee, I wonder why they suddenly had a change of heart.
Michael Caputo, the Health and Human Services Department Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, noted the sudden change in attitude by the Washington Post on Twitter:
Wait @washingtonpost what happened here? pic.twitter.com/TUgTVOSypV
— Michael R. Caputo (@SpoxHHS) August 24, 2020
It’s hydroxychlorquine all over again. Hydroxychloroquine has been proven by many studies to reduce mortality of COVID-19, but it’s not being widely used as a treatment in the United States because the media immediately trashed the drug when Trump touted it as a potential gamechanger in the fight against the coronavirus.
Is this really how it’s going to go every time? The media and the Democratic Party demonized hydroxychloroquine immediately after Trump suggested it could be a gamechanger. Countries that are widely using the drug have lower death rates from COVID-19 than those that aren’t. The left’s fear campaign has cost likely thousands of lives but they don’t care because the worse the United States’ death count looks the better chances there are that Trump won’t get reelected.
Ping as per your request
Maybe Trump should really piss them off by floating the Idea of an Executive Order granting Registered Republicans a Right to purchase and receive HCQ+AZT+Zinc without a Prescription from anywhere they choose.
It's now Pravda On The Potomac...
Anecdotally alive is no way to live I guess.
FDA scientists are chopped liver? Never mind.
Can the press be an accessory to reckless endangerment or negligent homicide?
And I guarantee if there is a vaccine in the next couple months, the Washington Post will find the one person who has an allergic reaction or someone who just happened to drop dead of a heart attack the day after receiving it and scream, “Trump is killing us with his rushed and ineffective vaccine. We need that medical genius Joe Biden in there who will listen to the “the science”
I knew that would happen. The leftist media is truly without any redeeming factors.
Ivermectin is an inhibitor of the COVID-19 causative virus (SARS-CoV-2).
A single treatment able to effect ~5000-fold reduction in virus at 48 hours.
Ivermectin is widely available, due to its inclusion on the WHO model list of essential medicines.
This may be even better than convalescent plasma treatment or even HCQ-Zinc-azithromycin, given early and in a timely manner.
The virus is real.
But the world’s reaction to the virus is definitely a rigged game. There is evil at work.
I know a guy, late 50’s got COVID in mid July. He wasn’t looking good but he got this plasma treatment and started to show improvement. He was discharged from the hospital on 8/8 and is slowly getting back to normal.
I’m thinking this works.
Democrats are still saying that taking drugs that haven’t “been adequately tested”
but,have good anecdotal success is worse than dying.
Democrats are still saying that taking drugs that haven’t “been adequately tested”
but,have good anecdotal success is worse than dying.
I’ve said it elsewhere ...
TDS Kills!
During the pandemic influenza outbreak of 1918 known as the “Spanish flu,” fatality rates were cut in half for patients who were treated with blood plasma compared to those who weren’t. The method seemed particularly effective when patients received the antibodies in the early days of their infection, before their own immune systems had a chance to overreact and damage vital organs. In the 1930s, doctors like Gallagher used convalescent plasma effectively against measles.
https://www.history.com/news/blood-plasma-covid-19-measles-spanish-flu
The two local hospitals here have been giving plasma to COVID-19 patients for several months, with positive results.
The MSM isn’t afraid the treatment won’t work, they’re afraid it will.