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| Hydroxychloroquine and fake news |
| 2020-07-09 |
| [TheDuran] Fake news is keeping us away from the treatment to end the coronavirus crisis The anti-hydroxychloroquine media has been full of the supposed dangers of hydroxychloroquine and its failure as a treatment for the virus. Does hydroxychloroquine work or does it not, is it safe or dangerous, and should we be using it as a treatment for the virus? Here we examine the evidence for and against it. A New York doctor Vladimir Zelenko looked at treatments being used in China and Korea and gave it to 405 patients over 60 or with high-risk problems such as diabetes, asthma, obesity, hypertension or shortness of breath. In this high risk group he claimed to have cut hospital admission and mortality rates compared to what could be expected without treatment by 80 to 90%. (Dr. Zelenko’s treatment plan) Dr Zelenko sent a letter to President Trump urging him to issue an executive order to roll out the treatment which the FDA was blocking. Trump announced that hydroxychloroquine looked like it could be a "game-changer", and thus the politicization of hydroxychloroquine began. Dr Fauci the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who was supposed to be advising Trump disagreed with him and backed Gilead's rival treatment Remdesivir. YouTube deleted a video of Dr. Zelenko talking about the treatment on his Rabbi's channel and despite objections that there was nothing wrong with the video YouTube never reinstated it. [Hiding something?] In this YouTube video interview with Rudy Giulliani from July 1, which hopefully will not be deleted by the time you read this, Dr. Zelenko claims 99,3% survival rate for the high-risk patients he has treated. (Video: Rudy Guiliano interviews Dr. Zelenko) Professor Didier Raoult of Marseilles used a similar protocol to Dr. Zelenko without the zinc. His study with a small group using hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin showed a fifty-fold benefit. He then went on to get similar results with a much larger group of 1,061 patients. Contrary to the warnings the media had been running that hydroxychloroquine would cause heart problems, no cardiac toxicity was observed and he achieved a mortality rate of only 0.5%. (Didier Raoult study results) The media quickly found critics who claimed that the only valid proof any treatment worked was a "gold-standard" double-blind clinical trial and dismissed Dr. Zelenko's and Raoult's results. Dr. Zelenko and Prof. Raoult both refused on ethical grounds to give placebos to half the patients in clinical trials and they defended their data as sufficient to show the treatment did work. They both stressed that the urgency of the situation made it necessary to act on available evidence, not clinical trials which would take months to produce results and be verified. There have subsequently been over a dozen studies which confirm that Dr. Zelenko's and Prof. Raoult's protocols do work. A study from the New York University Grossman school of Medicine published in May found patients given hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin at an early stage had a lower need for hospitalization than those who were not. The addition of zinc improved the results even more. (.pdf file here) .... |
| Posted by:Clem |
| #9 Trump continues to see hydroxychloroquine as promising against COVID-19 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 16:32 |
| #8 See the start of the push to keep the "treatment" shakedown going |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-09 10:43 |
| #7 Fauci is in tight w/ the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He doesn't have to worry where his next meal comes from. |
| Posted by: Chunky Ebbanter9368 2020-07-09 08:05 |
| #6 The head of CDC - wouldn't be smart. The head of the CDC might have a wife/partner and/or a blind trust to hold the paper. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2020-07-09 08:01 |
| #5 Probably the people who will give Falsey a sinecure after he's booted out will are those who own those "investments" |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-09 05:43 |
| #4 I'm sure a doctor has investments in pharmaceuticals A practitioner doctor yes. The head of CDC - wouldn't be smart. You know how many people under him want his job? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 02:10 |
| #3 I'm sure a doctor has investments in pharmaceuticals |
| Posted by: Chris 2020-07-09 02:03 |
| #2 ^It's not investments, it's ego-putz impulse. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-09 02:00 |
| #1 I would like to know were Fauci has investments. |
| Posted by: Chris 2020-07-09 00:44 |