Posted on 05/18/2020 7:34:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
President Trump's physician on Monday confirmed that the president is now taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine despite not having the coronavirus, saying he and Trump concluded "the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks."
In a 114-word letter released by the White House hours after Trump announced he was taking the medication, presidential physician Sean Conley wrote that he discussed the pros and cons of taking the drug with Trump after one of his personal valets tested positive for the coronavirus.
But the letter contained no specifics on when Trump started taking the drug or what his dosage is.
"In consultation with our inter-agency partners and subject matter experts around the country, I continue to monitor the myriad studies investigating potential COVID-19 therapies, and I anticipate employing the same shared medical decision making based on the evidence at hand in the future," Conley wrote.
Trump told reporters earlier Monday he had started taking the controversial drug, which he has championed as a potential treatment for coronavirus despite limited evidence from the medical community.
The president said he consulted with the White House doctor about taking hydroxychloroquine, but it was not explicitly recommended for him since he has not tested positive for the virus.
"I asked him what do you think," Trump said. "He said, 'Well, if you’d like it.' I said, 'Yeah, I’d like it. I’d like to take it.' "
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Butttt, Dr Nazzi Knows Best (even without a medical license)
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This is entirely a medical matter between doctor and patient.
I dont see this as any different than when I had an impacted tooth that was terribly infected.
Was on azithromioycin for 10 weeks and could barely function.
Dentist wouldn’t pull the tooth because of some risk associated with pulling it.
I finally walked into his office pleading to cut it or pull it “I don’t care”.
Asked him what the hell they did 150 years ago
He replied in some patients the infection spread and they died.
Told him I’d take my chances as I couldn’t sleep and barely work.
Pulled it and pain disappeared in 2 days.
Couldn’t be happier about it either...
I just had two teeth pulled. My regular dentist kept putting new crowns on them. I went in for a cleaning, regular guy was t there. Nice lady dentist said, let’s have them out. The oral surgeon came in the next day, whipped them out and now no paid.
considering that the risk to healthy people is less than 1% Yeah- benefits WAY outweigh the practically non existent risk
Poor TDS MSM and Neil Cavutro all screamed “people could lose their lives”- (apparently these dolts think that doctors don’t evaluate their patients before hand anymore, and don’t monitor them while on the drug, and aren;t capable of determining g if someone is havign issues while on it while they have serious heart issues before going on it evidently)
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Oh yeah- note that noone has ever said how many people just up and drop dead from taking HCQ- nor do they deign to mention that HCQ is only taken for a very short 5 days- where it is almost entirely 100% safe- People- millions of them- have been takign them for many many years- try to find out how many have died suddenly while on it- hardly any info at all about that- Aspirin is far more dangerous than HCQ
I was with a group in travel to Ethiopia some years back. Everyone was advised beforehand to take chloroquine once a day throughout the trip to potentially prevent malaria in case of a mosquito bite. I’m a medical minimalist so I didn’t take it, but everyone else did. We were of mixed ages. I never heard anyone complain of any negative effects...it was a tight knit group of about 20 people. It’s not really relevant to my report here, but I don’t think any of us ever saw or felt a mosquito either. We all came home fine!
I wonder why they don’t just give an antiarrhythmic with the HCQ.
Before they synthesized quinine they got it from cinchona bark where it exist at about 16%. Cinchona bark also has quinidine (a stereoisomer mirror image molecule of quinine). It’s odd, the 2 compounds are created together; quinine can cause arrhythmia and quinidine can stop it, and both are power full fever reducers and both can treat malaria.
The troops in ‘Nam took it every day.
All US military personnel who deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq were issued hydroxychloroquine tablets to start taking before they departed the states and continued to take them until after they returned from their tours of duty.
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