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CONTINUATION OF THE TRANSLATED INTERVIEW....

Q: Which leads today to the banning of hydroxychloroquine in France ...

A: We know the harmful effects of hydroxychloroquine, but in very small proportions. And we know that use is problematic in people at risk. I am terrified by the publicity given to an article which should never have been published in a magazine as prestigious as the Lancet.

Suddenly, you suspended the trials started at the CHU of Montpellier on hydroxychloroquine ...

Monday evening, I received an email from the national drug safety agency (ANSM), and I immediately suspended the trials.

Q: So, Are the hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 infection definitely over?

A: The Americans were preparing to launch a therapeutic trial. Will they do it? The World Health Organization (WHO) has also suspended the trials, but we know Donald Trump's relations with the WHO (not good) ... If we leave it there, we will not have an answer on the interest of the treatment.

Q: Do you still think that hydroxychloroquine is of interest?

A: As much as I am skeptical about hydroxychloroquine alone, I think that the association with azythromicine may have an interest, which Professor Raoult could not show because there is a bias in his studies, which included patients who are doing well, and who would never have had any complications.

In its first series of a thousand patients, 30% had a normal lung scan, no signs of pneumonia. The question is, what do we really gain in people with moderately severe conditions? Do we recover earlier? It is a pity that we have not been able to conclude.

Q: What do you think will be the future of Professor Raoult?

A: It will be difficult. The Lancet study is a "murder" in order ... It can recover if the Americans do a serious study, which provides tangible elements. They were to include 2,000 patients in their study. If they do, we will have answers ...

Look, I am neither for nor against Raoult. But his idea was not a rant, the interest presented by hydroxychloroquine is probable, and even if it is not gigantic, it had to be evaluated. Afterwards, there was such a runaway that nothing became controllable.

just watched a commercial tonight put out by “Coronavirus.gov” who used a D.J Khaled as their spokesperson who said essentially

“Stay at home, spend time with your family, that’s the key. If you go outside you are being selfish, and are putting everybody at risk. If you care about your life, Stay Home”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTqP5vbU3lY

Seriously? So if we open up our front door to go out- we’re ‘being selfish’ and we are putting ‘everyone at risk’ and ‘we will die’?

Hey Khaled- people are committing suicide because they’ve lost their jobs, lost their homes because they can’;tr par rent or pay the bills- they can’t feed their families properly- 99% pf the population is going to survive this virus just fine- your commercial makes it seem that if so much as open a window to the outdoor world, we’ll catch the virus and die- The flu kills 10’s of 1000’s every year- shall we all hide inside every time the flu season rolls around twice a year? Those ofr you who are rich might be able to weather long downtime without a job- but hte vast majority of Americans can’t- and shouldn’t have to since the virus will take less than 2% of the population- so stop scaremongering and shaming people for going outside and living their lives-