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White House sidestepped FDA to distribute hydroxychloroquine to pharmacies, documents show
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Oct. 31, 2020 | Christopher Rowland, Debbie Cenziper and Lisa Rein

Posted on 10/31/2020 7:33:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The phone call in March from President Donald Trump's adviser carried an urgent message.

For days Trump had touted the off-label use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for covid-19, despite a lack of scientific evidence it worked and amid mounting concerns about the dangers to patients with underlying medical conditions.

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I thought the Dems were the freedom of choice do whatever you wish with your body folks.
1 posted on 10/31/2020 7:33:57 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Yay! More winning!!


2 posted on 10/31/2020 7:35:50 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: artichokegrower

Lives were saved. Oh the horror...


3 posted on 10/31/2020 7:36:26 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
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"...concerns about the dangers to patients with underlying medical conditions."

And I thought that underlying medical conditions were the chief reason that people die from this virus, so which is worse?

4 posted on 10/31/2020 7:37:07 AM PDT by alancarp
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>>despite a lack of scientific evidence it worked

The scientific evidence against it was a bullstalin paper that was later withdrawn from several journals.


5 posted on 10/31/2020 7:39:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: alancarp

So which had more deaths...people with covid who used it for 5-10 days or people with lupus and arthritis who died from heart side effects while using HCQ for years?


6 posted on 10/31/2020 7:39:27 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change.)
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To: artichokegrower

I thought that the medicine needed a doctor’s prescription.

So what was the harm?

And SO SICK of the bias in purported “news” stories.

Enough already, people!


7 posted on 10/31/2020 7:39:31 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: artichokegrower

If you can kill your baby and that is privacy between you and your doctor, then your doctor can certianly prescribe a legal substance to you for use in off-label cases.


8 posted on 10/31/2020 7:40:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019)l)
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To: artichokegrower
Sidestep the totally unconstitutional FDA and then NUKE the totally unconstitutional FDA!!!!!
9 posted on 10/31/2020 7:40:46 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: artichokegrower

All this is, is just another hit piece on the POTUS.
IF that’s all they got left, they’re in deep shite.
FWIW, HCQ should have been made an over-the-counter medication from the get-go. And where’d the millions of donated doses from India go? Maybe to DS/RAT elites?


10 posted on 10/31/2020 7:41:03 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: artichokegrower

Pharmacies aren’t allowed to stock medicine for malaria? The same medicine that is available OTC in certain 3rd world countries?


11 posted on 10/31/2020 7:41:59 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (When seconds count, social workers are days away.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Hey, if people live or die, ALWAYS Trump’s fault.

I swear to God he could part the seas and he would be wrong.


12 posted on 10/31/2020 7:42:04 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: artichokegrower

So what? Is the FDA even mentioned in our Constitution? Is that bureaucracy some kind of all knowing authority that MUST be consulted on any matter?


13 posted on 10/31/2020 7:43:26 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Ghislane Maxwell Didn't Kill Herself")
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The hydroxychloriquine cocktail has cured
many millions in the U.S. around the world; including me.

Tested positive, started the hydroxychloriquine cocktail, then tested negative a week later. Probably would have been negative after only five days.

It works, but Big Pharma wouldn’t get rich off the hydroxychloriquine cocktail. Treatment was well under $100. The Big Pharma solution, which doesn’t work nearly as well,is $5,000+. Then there is the $15-50k hospitals get for COVID-19 admissions


14 posted on 10/31/2020 7:45:49 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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WHY DOPRESSTITUTES LIE TO THE PUBLIC???

HTTPS://swprs.org

Zinc/HCQ/AZ

US physicians reported an 84% decrease in hospitalizations, a 50% decrease in mortality among already hospitalized patients (if treated early), and an improvement in the condition of patients within 8 to 12 hours based on Zinc/HCQ/AZ early treatment.
Italian hospital doctors reported a decrease in deaths of 66% based on HCQ treatment.
A Spanish study found that low plasma zinc levels (below 50mcg/dl) increased the risk of in-hospital death of covid patients by 130%.
US physicians moreover reported a 45% reduction in mortality of hospitalized patients by adding zinc to HCQ and azithromycin.
Another US study reported a rapid resolution (within hours) of covid symptoms, such as shortness of breath, based on early outpatient treatment with high-dose zinc.
A Dutch study on HCQ published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases found a 53% risk reduction in terms of ICU admission and ventilation of covid patients.
Australian Professor Thomas Borody reported an improvement in the condition of covid patients often within hours after treatment with zinc, ivermectin and azithromycin.
See also: An overview of more than 100 international HCQ studies.


15 posted on 10/31/2020 7:49:50 AM PDT by eyeamok
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President Trump bypasses our self appointed overlords to allow free citizens to make their own choices, live their own lives.

DEEP STATE DEEPLY DISTURBED !

This is the kind of thing that could counter 65 years of leftist dogma and lead to citizens taking the US Constitution literally once again.


16 posted on 10/31/2020 7:58:07 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing")
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To: eyeamok

Wonder if giving HCQ prophylacticly to the elderly would help?


17 posted on 10/31/2020 8:02:13 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: a fool in paradise

Hey, it’s a choice, right? ;)

“My body, my meds.”


18 posted on 10/31/2020 8:02:43 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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To: WASCWatch

Wow! Thank goodness you’re okay!

All the best to you and yours,

Julie


19 posted on 10/31/2020 8:05:29 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (In these trying times, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!")
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Fauci’s name is on at least three of those studies that say YES, it works as a prophylactic for ALL People


20 posted on 10/31/2020 8:08:24 AM PDT by eyeamok
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