Posted on 05/07/2020 3:43:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new study has found that hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug recommended by President Trump as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, does not help patients hospitalized with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
The research, which followed 1,376 patients suffering from symptoms of the coronavirus at New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan, found that 60 percent of those who were given hydroxychloroquine within 48 hours of being admitted were found to be more severely ill than those who did not take the drug.
Funded by the National Institutes of Health and published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study was not a randomized clinical trial, and its authors noted that while the drug did not appear to help coronavirus patients, it was not observed to harm them either.
The findings, however, come amid mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine may not be the “game changer” drug that Trump touted at coronavirus task force briefings for much of the month of March.
The president seized on a French study of 26 COVID-19 patients that appeared to show that 10 people who took hydroxychloroquine recovered from the virus faster than those in a control group. One patient who was given the drug died from COVID-19, and three others stopped taking the medication due to side effects.
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Curious that the studies find that It harms people more than it helps....
For a drug that’s been in use for over 50 years for Malaria with minimal side effects.
Almost as if there’s a political outcome being represented here.
We know now that the HIH is full on deepstate. Thoroughly infiltrated and corrupted. It is in the pockets of the drug companies and globalism.
Anything the NIH says should be completely disregarded.
And there you have it, everyone else around the world is wrong but their study is correct. /s
no surprise. liars do not know truth.
Its not a randomized double blind study so its worthless.
Zzzzzzz.
The NIH needs to be disbanded. Or need to be deported to live with the WHO globalist stooges.
already hospitalized
BwaHAHAHAH
Seeing who funded the tests, the result is no surprise.
Heir Gobbels would be so proud.
Did the study focus on hydroxychloroquine alone, or did it include zinc?
We already know that hydroxychloroquine alone may not be that effective.
If it cost $100 per pill, they would be all for it.
Take a look at this French study. Completely the opposite -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893920302179
Which one do you think they’ll hype? That’s why they do these fake studies, to give the media something to lie about.
Probably because they gave it to patients who were already critical.
New York is beyond help.
You have to TEST positive before you can get the HCQ therapeutic.
You're already damaged.
Anything coming out of New York trials is as dependable as information coming out of China.
Tell that to all the people that have been saved.
NIH=WHO lite.
“..does not help patients hospitalized with COVID-19”
But aren’t people hospitalized when the disease has taken a serious course rather than at the early stages? I thought it was at those early stages HCQ has been proven effective.
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