Goldtent TA Paradise

HCQ

1. PK says:

   September 29, 2020 - 5:17 am at 5:17 am

   CONCLUSION
   By systematically misrepresenting HCQ’s efficacy and safety for political ends, its opponents have deprived many tens of thousands of Americans of a potentially life-saving treatment and risk even more in the months and years to come. Members of the news media, public health community, and regulatory agencies must stop politicizing the use of this medicine. Properly powered RCTs can and should be conducted to confirm HCQ’s efficacy against COVID-19 and help us better understand both the drug and the disease. But there is sufficient credible, scientific data to demonstrate that HCQ has therapeutic value against COVID-19, and that the theoretical risk of harm absolutely does not compare to the very real threat of this disease left untreated. The burden of proof has been met. HCQ should be more widely recommended, prescribed and promoted to treat COVID-19 right now.

   • Fullgoldcrown says:

     September 29, 2020 - 8:48 am at 8:48 am

     Amen PK

     And thank you Duke for finding this definitive article on this topic

     It’s linked on the sidebar under The Covid Cure.

     I admit I was resistant to this simple remedy when Trump first promoted it

     I had Trump Derangement Syndrome

     Hard to believe but Still the Trumpophobes CRINGE when anything comes out in support of this drug.

2. Fullgoldcrown says:

   September 29, 2020 - 9:10 am at 9:10 am

   Democrats who spoke favorably of HCQ were rebuffed. On April 6, Michigan state Representative Karen Whitsett, a
   Democrat representing Detroit, credited HCQ with her recovery from COVID-19 in March.86 She met with President
   Trump during an April 14 gathering of COVID-19 survivors and expressed gratitude for his promotion of the medicine,
   which is how she learned about it: “Thank you for everything that you have done… I did not know that saying thank
   you had a political line… I’m telling my story and my truth, and this is how I feel and these are my words.”87
   Shortly after this on April 25, delegates of the 13th Congressional District Democratic Party voted unanimously to
   censure Representative Whitsett, barring her from the group’s activities for two election cycles.

   • pedro_deleon says:

     September 29, 2020 - 9:25 am at 9:25 am

     Sent to family in Michigan that bleed blue. With that Whitsett note as the lead in.
     Thanks!

     It feels here like Germany must have felt in the mid to late 1930s.
     We’re living in a real live chapter of Animal Farm.

3. Fullgoldcrown says:

   September 29, 2020 - 9:15 am at 9:15 am

   On May 22, The Lancet published a multinational registry analysis spanning 671 hospitals on six continents,
   concluding that HCQ not only didn’t help COVID-19 patients but increased their chance of death.100 The study
   was widely reported as the final nail in the coffin for HCQ.101 The World Health Organization along with several
   countries immediately suspended clinical trials with the medicine.102
   Within a short time independent scientists identified problems with the study – noting that the journal had violated
   its own ethical guidelines in the rush to publication without verifying the underlying data – and circulated an open
   letter questioning its conclusions.103 Among other things, these authors noted “inadequate adjustment for known and
   measured confounders,” lack of ethics review, no data sharing, and “no mention of the countries or hospitals that
   contributed to the data source and no acknowledgments to their contributions.” They further noted that data ostensibly
   sourced from Australia was “not compatible with government reports.”104 The Lancet launched an independent
   investigation, and when the study authors refused to provide the underlying data, the study was retracted.105
   But the damage was done. The Lancet’s publishing of misinformation gave public health regulators around the world
   a false scientific pretext to further limit access to HCQ. In the U.S. these measures were never reversed, even after
   the study was publicly withdrawn. This campaign of misinformation also succeeded in discouraging doctors from
   prescribing the drug and had a chilling effect on further enrollment in clinical trials, slowing the scientific process
   needed to determine the drug’s true efficacy. Even the National Institutes of Health halted its trial for the medicine
   under the pretense that, “while there was no harm, the study drug was very unlikely to be beneficial to hospitalized
   patients with COVID-19.”

   Pathetic

4. Chartsmaster says:

   September 29, 2020 - 10:18 am at 10:18 am

   If Trump loses this will be the biggest reason why. Instead of wanting to show the US could get a vaccine out before the election.(Big deal who wants it anyway)He should have OVERRULED the FDA on the exceptional use rollback and fired the FDA Chairman who allowed the removal.

   • Fullgoldcrown says:

     September 29, 2020 - 11:20 am at 11:20 am

     Agree 100%

     he should be using THIS in the debate tonite !