CORONA Cure found?

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Gin and Tonic with Quine should work

 

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Study Finds That Trump's 'Miracle Drug' Helps Fight COVID-19

by Tyler Durden
Wed, 04/01/2020 - 18:25

The New York Times and Washington Post aren't going to enjoy reporting this.

A relatively small study involving coronavirus patients in China has determined that the malaria drugs that President Trump has been pushing as potential coronavirus 'miracle cures' actually do seem to work in preventing COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, from progressing into its most lethal stage.

The news will send "a ripple of excitement" through the medical community, one doctor said.

Here's more from the NYT:
The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helped to speed the recovery of a small number of patients who were mildly ill from the coronavirus, doctors in China reported this week.
Cough, fever and pneumonia went away faster, and the disease seemed less likely to turn severe in people who received hydroxychloroquine than in a comparison group not given the drug. The authors of the report said that the medication was promising, but that more research was needed to clarify how it might work in treating coronavirus disease and to determine the best way to use it.
“It’s going to send a ripple of excitement out through the treating community,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University.
Though NYT, WaPo, and most of the left-wing press has sought to focus on the "unproven" nature of hydroxychloroquine and its analogue chloroquine, as well as the fact that Trump's remarks have purportedly spurred harmful hoarding (which has deprived some regular patients of their medication) and at least one man's decision to try a harmful COVID-19 "home remedy" with the same active ingredient in the medication (spoiler alert: that man poisoned himself, and the mainstream press swiftly declared it to be Trump's fault), some professionals have backed Trump.

Writing in WSJ last week, a pair of doctors reviewed the evidence at hand and recounted their clinical experience saying they had seen the drug effectively treat COVID-19.

Fortunately, as the NYT noted in this latest article, the drugs are cheap, relatively plentiful, and mostly harmless.

Now that the FDA has granted the drug emergency approval, part of a plan to allow its use in New York in particular, doctors suspect more patients will begin asking for the drug.

"I think it will reinforce the inclination of many people across the country who are not in a position to enter their patients into clinical trials but have already begun using hydroxychloroquine," he said.
And now, doctors have every reason to give it a shot.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitic...fight-covid-19

 

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Michigan Democrat Governor Asks Feds For Hydroxychloroquine Just Days After Threatening Doctors For Prescribing It

Sudden turnaround.

Published
2 mins ago on
1 April, 2020
Paul Joseph Watson

Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is now asking the federal government to send her hydroxychloroquine just four days after she threatened to revoke the medical licenses of doctors who prescribed it.

Last week, Whitmer sent a letter warning physicians and pharmacists of punishments for the prescribing of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine despite a major study recommending “COVID-19 patients be treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to cure their infection and to limit the transmission of the virus to other people in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the world.”

Medical professionals were threatened with “administrative action,” with Whitmer claiming that hydroxychloroquine had not met the benchmark for “proof of efficacy.”

How quickly things change. Four days later, Whitmer is now begging the feds to send her hydroxychloroquine.

“We want to ensure that doctors have the ability to prescribe these medicines,” she said. “We also want to make sure that the people who have prescriptions that predated COVID-19 have access to the medication they need. And so all of the work that we’ve done is trying to strike that balance.”

It’s also worth noting that Fox News host Laura Ingraham was forced to delete a tweet that promoted hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure under threat of suspension despite it already having been approved by the FDA.

In its approval letter, the FDA said, “Based on the totality of scientific evidence available to FDA, it is reasonable to believe that chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulfate may be effective in treating COVID-19.”


https://summit.news/2020/04/01/michi...rescribing-it/