Posted on 04/26/2020 5:52:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Veterans advocates say they are frustrated at the lack of transparency around the Department of Veterans Affairs' use of the unproven drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus.
After the release of a preliminary study of veterans hospitalized with COVID-19 last week that showed that hydroxychloroquine — an anti-malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump — had no benefit and caused a greater rate of deaths, the groups want answers and are worried that they may have been misled by the agency on its recent purchase of the drug.
Jeremy Butler, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said that the results of the study were "incredibly troubling for a number of reasons" and that the VA needed to provide answers.
"Why were veterans who were receiving treatment from a federal agency being treated with an unproven and speculative drug?" he asked in a statement. "What was the approval process used by doctors, patients and their families in discussing and agreeing upon this treatment option? At what point did the VA know that the results were this dire and when did they act upon those results? What are the VA's current procedures for approving and administering the drug?"
The study, which included results from 368 patients, is the largest examination of the drug's effect on patients suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Researchers concluded that there was a greater prevalence of death among those who took the drug compared to those who received only standard care.
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VA Secretary Robert Wilkie briefly mentioned the study in an interview with MSNBC last week, downplaying its results.
"That's an observational study," he said. "It's not a clinical study. It was done on a small number of veterans — sadly, those of whom were in the last stages of life, and the drug was given to them. And I have to also say that we know the drug has been working on middle-age and younger veterans."
They didn’t use Zinc.
Fools . The trifecta treatment works exceptionally well per TWO large clinical trials and many small tests and numerous anecdotal reports. If anyone doesn’t want the treatment so be it. ( but so far there’s nothing else so wth do they think they’ll do?). Fools
Fakenews.
The IAVA is a GOP hostile, pro Democrat, veterans group. In other words, another Democrat front group.
They didn’t use Zinc”
A rigged test deigned to fall.
That’s what I assumed when I read the title.
Thanks for confirming.
It is the zinc that attacks the virus nucleus reproductive components once the virus "shell" has been breached by the Hydroxychloroquine.
Glad my son and son-in-law didn’t join this leftist led group.
It sounds like the less Marxist version of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Vietnam (maoist controlled since late 1972) and its “cleaner version”, “Vietnam Veterans of America” (VVA), for a long time led by a leftist named “Robert?) Mueller.
““Vietnam Veterans of America” (VVA), for a long time led by a leftist named “Robert?) Mueller.”
I made the mistake of buying a lifetime membership in that outfit. Most unimpressive is the service they give to members, which in my case they have no representatives where I live so they referred me to others.
I will not read their magazine after they ran Agent Orange articles about the poor Vietnamese suffering because of it. These assholes will not represent one of their own Agent Orange infected vets, but instead worry about the Viets.
For what it’s worth, in my opinion the DAV and Am Legion are the best. They are geared to be there for a vet.
VVA runs an Agent Orange “assistance” program for communist Vietnam, esp. in the North where NO AO was used. They apparently helped spawn another “Hanoi AO fraudulent aid organization “with the world “Reconciliation” in it.
I travelled on the ground, on the water and in the air over 22 of So. Vietnam’s roughly 44 provinces and only saw one example of “defoliation”. It was on the outskirts of a Cobra helicopter base in Camau (Peninsular/Province). It was a grayish strip of dead trees/brush along the outside of the base’s fence defense perimeter.
At 3,000 ft in a chopper, when you looked out over the Mekong Delta, all you saw was brilliant green growth, forests, rice, bushes, etc. Awesome!
More and more it is looking like guillotines from orbit is the only thing that can stop these demon spawn media dissemblers who work for the globalist oligarchy propping up the demon rats.
Um, not exactly. The hydroxychloroquine acts as an ionophore, to ferry zinc into the infected cell. The HCQ docks at a site on the CELL membrane and ferries the zinc ions into the CELL, where the zinc interferes with the CELL’s replication of the virus RNA.
Thanks for the info on the VVA, by reading their magazine, it was apparent they had more affection for the commies than they do the very ones that are paying their way.
I spent most of my time in the II Corps area or IFFV which ever you want to call it HQ’d at Nha Trang. Camp McDermott was pretty much void of anything green, especially the barracks area. When the wind blew, we had dust. When it rained, we had mud and used PSP panels as sidewalks. I bought a new camera at the PX that lasted only a couple of months, took it back and they said the dust was so fine it got inside and jammed it up.
A couple months after arriving at Nha Trang my facial skin got so oily I could squeegy oil off with my ID card and a case of acne from Hell started growing on my face. My hair started to fall out and I was balled by age 21. I could not prove Chloracne, but did fall presumptive for another AO disease.
The Vietnam War was the first political and military victory for our leftists. Their victories have gradually gotten most of our young to believe communism is a good thing. And the military victories keep piling up for them. The Iraq, Afghanistan and other ME wars that keep going on is in essence victories because it is draining us while the elites get rich. The ones that suffer most for this are the vets of all such wars.
Sorry for the rant.
I was trying to not get too technically specific so readers eyes won't glaze over.
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