AND THEN THERE'S THIS:
We’ve been talking about anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for about three weeks now. However, U.S. health agencies like FDA and CDA, are still very cautious about the effectiveness and safety of the two drugs due to small trial size and lack of sufficient data.Techstartups reports that in France, the government caved to pressure from renowned Dr. Didier Raoult, who led the new additional study on 80 patients, results show a combination of Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin to be effective in treating COVID-19. Dr Didier Raoult, a professor of infectious diseases who works at La Timone hospital in Marseille, then declared in a video on YouTube that chloroquine was a cure for Covid-19 and should be used immediately.
A COVID-19 treatment has already been rolled out at the Montreal Jewish Hospital, giving hope to many that there might be light at the end of the quarantine.
Chloroquine, a drug first introduced to fight malaria in 1934, has been speculated to both prevent and treat COVID-19. Today during a White House Press Conference, U.S President Donald Trump announced that chloroquine was being fast-tracked by the FDA for the treatment of coronavirus, and would be rolled out “almost immediately.”
Dr. Andrew Bostom, Academic Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University, Internist MD & author of The Legacy of Jihad, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism, Sharia Versus Freedom tweeted:
ReplyDeleteFirst randomized, placebo-controlled RCT of hydroxychloroquine (without azithromycin) published in 62 Chinese patients suggests benefit in both time to overall recovery, & decreased likelihood of progressing to severe disease, absent major side effects
https://medrxiv.org/content/10.110
https://twitter.com/andrewbostom/status/1245021426228346887