Blessings!
Than it should be prescribed easily.
Big vaccine makers don’t want public to know there’s a cheap, widespread alternative.
There’s something really fishy going on IMO.
Either this is a simple fix, or the politicians and med folks know this is a very frightening virus. You pick.
“What the hell is going on? “
For a few extra bucks our mfrs probably gave it to China and now they won’t give it to us.
Sounds like take two chloroquine and call me in the morning.
If this drug really helps, the truth will get out, with or without FDA approval.
Wikipedia has
“Hydroxychloroquine was approved for medical use in the United States in 1955”
There is NO PATENT on it. It is a generic drug. Nobody is going to make money if people get cured by it.
Interesting.
How about that evidence, Fauci?
Screw Anthony Fauci. Makes him look like a useless bureaucrat.
Wouldn’t quinine do the same thing as chloroquine? If so, just buy tonic water.
Yup.
If you go out to NCBI you can find articles published around that time that say it is a KILLER against the SARS virus, which this one practically is.
It’s basically the prescription form of quinine.
This information needs to be blasted into the larger media to force a debate and, maybe, individual doctors and patients deciding on their own to try it. Are we, as a country, being led over a cliff that will so damage the economy that it will be like 1929?
Then why are CDC and media denying this? Just to give Trump a black eye?
Plenty of volunteer gunea pigs among the severely ill to try chloroquine.
No more guessing.
I talked to a few RATS that live close by today. They act like they don’t want a cure. They listen to the fake news that is telling them that the promising cures are not real and/or will kill you.
The problem is not a shortage of chloroquine phosphate tablets. Millions are available right now. The problem is that the FDA is charged with protecting US citizens from drugs that are not proven to be safe and effective.
The gold standard for this proof is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) using active and placebo treatment arms that are used on a large enough number of people to be able to generalize the data. The French study was an RCT but with a small number of patients (N=22). The FDA can’t legally approve this off label use without an RCT however doctors can prescribe it if they believe it will do no harm and are willing to accept any legal risk.
The current approach is to do a larger RCT, confirm the French study, and approve the label expansion. Short of that doctors can prescribe it based on “compassionate use” criteria (to save someone that is dying).
Its easy to just blame greedy Big Pharma for the FDA doing its job when people are panicked.