U.K. Scientists Say Hydroxychloroquine May Still Have Promise for Covid-19, No Drug Has Been Politicized Like This

Newsweek ^ | 08/10/2020 | Aristos Georgiou

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British scientists have said hydroxychloroquine may still have promise as a preventive treatment for COVID-19 but the drug has become so politicized that studies investigating whether or not it is effective are being hampered.

A large trial known as COPCOV being led by the University of Oxford, U.K., the Wellcome Trust and the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Thailand is aiming to enrol more than 40,000 frontline health care workers and staff who have close contact with COVID-19 patients.

The goal is to investigate whether or not hydroxychloroquine and the related drug chloroquine are effective in preventing or reducing the severity of COVID-19 infections. But one of the scientists involved, Nick White, a professor of tropical medicine at Oxford University told Newsweek that conducting hydroxychloroquine studies has become more difficult because the drug has been politicized like no other medication.

"(The politicization) has been a major impediment to conducting the clinical trials needed to provide the answers the questions above. It has adversely affected the performance of regulatory authorities, and it has polarized media opinion and public attitudes," White told Newsweek.

In the U.K., the regulatory body for medicines halted trials into the drug following the publication of a paper in The Lancet that sparked fears of increased deaths from its use against COVID-19.

This paper was later retracted because of flaws in the data, and trials were subsequently allowed to restart. However, White said the controversy over the drug, which has been touted by President Donald Trump and other high profile figures like Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, has made it more difficult to recruit participants while hospitals have also pulled out of the trial, the BBC reported.

Earlier in the pandemic, hydroxychloroquine showed some promise for the treatment of COVID-19 in some small, preliminary trials.

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However, the COPCOV scientists say that the drug may still prove to be beneficial in preventing COVID-19 or treating the disease in its earlier stages, before patients are hospitalized. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of data on these issues highlighting the importance of trials like COPCOV—the only large, global trial investigating the drug for use as a preventative treatment.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[combat_boots]

Blue Collar Logic’s take...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=YbIBPJ3OTeg&feature=emb_logo

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I was disappointed to learn yesterday that the East Virginia Medical School revised their COVID Critical Care Protocol to remove HCQ and state it is “controversial.”

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

There is a TDS medical disease which also needs investigation.

[a fool in paradise]

>>In the U.K., the regulatory body for medicines halted trials into the drug following the publication of a paper in The Lancet that sparked fears of increased deaths from its use against COVID-19.

The paper in “The Lancet” was bullsh!t and everyone should realize that by now.

[a fool in paradise]

RETRACTED: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis
Prof Mandeep R Mehra, MD
Sapan S Desai, MD
Prof Frank Ruschitzka, MD
Amit N Patel, MD

https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140673620311806

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https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-covid-19-paper-that-raised-safety-concerns-about-malaria-drugs/

The retractions came at the request of the authors of the studies, published last month, who were not directly involved with the data collection and sources, the journals said.

...“We can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources,” Mandeep Mehra of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Frank Ruschitzka of University Hospital Zurich, and Amit Patel of University of Utah said in a statement issued by the Lancet. “Due to this unfortunate development, the authors request that the paper be retracted.”

[Chauncey Gardiner]

This is our national shame... that we have failed to properly understand and use this combination when other so-called “less developed” nations have run circles around us. This could have been OVER in April.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Yes, TDS Disease is more deadly, more contagious and more virulent than any other disease we’ve seen.

[null and void]

From what I've heard, The FDA has the authority to grant an emergency waiver to allow a drug to bypass the usual months to years long process of approval for a given use.

They can, for example, approve hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19...

BUT

They can only do this for ONE drug for any given disease.

If they approve HCQ for COVID-19, then any other drug *cough* remisevir *cough* can NOT bypass the time consuming and expensive approval process!

Can anyone verify?

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

[John S Mosby]

See the Bill Gates CNN “propaganda” interview. This a@@hole is pushing HIS and Chi-com partner’s (and Fauci and Soros) vaccine.

And trivializing and repeating FALSEhoods about testing and making comments about the CDC’s website (which the CDC controls and could do what he says, but isn’t because the TESTING IS BEING DONE! And the numbers are killing his NAZI arguments,him and Hitlery’s Foundation).

Small well controlled trials statistically managed in small number trials are PROVING the preventative early use of this regimen can STOP the infection. Test- then treat to prevent. Vaccines are 1.) too little and 2.) way too late because of the simple fact of ..... MUTATION that is ongoing. Mode of infection prevention... stops whatever comes into a person.

[Jane Long]

That’s what I heard, on Bannon’s Warroom Pandemic, last week.

They had Dr Zelenko on, and that’s what they said, in his segment.

[silverleaf]

Remdesivir...cough cough
Gilead ...look at who holds the patent ( China tried)

$3000 a dose plus must be adminstered in hospital
25% of trial participants suffered liver damage

[Buckeye McFrog]

This is NOT the only scenario where Big Pharma games us in order to enhance their bottom line. I hope people have been paying attention.

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Thanks, I wasn’t where I could take notes...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“has made it more difficult to recruit participants while hospitals have also pulled out of the trial”

The difficulty is not finding people willing to take it it is finding people that will allow you to take it. Make it over the counter and you’ll have lots of takers.

[SunkenCiv]

• Trumpy Bear says, "Approve Over-The-Counter HCQ"