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WHO pauses trial of hydroxychloroquine, once touted by Trump as a ‘game changer,’ over safety concerns
MSNBC ^ | 5/26/2020 | Tim Elfrink

Posted on 05/26/2020 6:27:48 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever

For months, President Trump has promoted hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for covid-19, calling the anti-malarial drug a “game changer,” asking patients, “What do you have to lose?” — and even announcing that he was taking the drug himself in an attempt to ward off the novel coronavirus.

On Monday, however, the World Health Organization announced it had temporarily halted its global trial of the drug, citing a new study that found a significantly higher risk of death among those taking hydroxychloroquine or the closely related drug chloroquine.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid19; hydroxychloroquine; politicalmedicine; timeelfrink; timelfrink; who; whohcq
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Hydroxychloroquine is:

1. A "dangerous" drug, OR,
2. Its effectiveness is eliminating the need for vaccinations.

1 posted on 05/26/2020 6:27:48 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever
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To: stars & stripes forever

I vote for #2.


2 posted on 05/26/2020 6:28:48 AM PDT by madison10
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https://internetprotocol.co/hype-news/2020/04/30/covid19-explanation-hcq-works/ (only 20 out of 65,000 Lupus patients get covid-19 - they take HCQ)


3 posted on 05/26/2020 6:29:41 AM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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WHO's message to President Trump (and Covid-19 sufferers):


4 posted on 05/26/2020 6:30:38 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I’m reading this article and read something totally different yesterday which did NOT indicate the combo as nevermore.


5 posted on 05/26/2020 6:32:02 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Game over for HCQ. No pharmacist in the US will now fill a prescription. Period. Period. Period. (As Biden would say).


6 posted on 05/26/2020 6:33:00 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: stars & stripes forever

Option 2 I think


7 posted on 05/26/2020 6:35:13 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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WHO is discrediting themselves further. Cut off all funding; ALSO - start a new pro-science world medical organization.


8 posted on 05/26/2020 6:35:37 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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amazing how the WHO is so in bed with the Communist Party of China, to spread its propaganda all over the world

meanwhile, thousands and thousands of people have recovered from The Virus from Communist China, thanks to HCl (plus a prophylactic antibiotic and zinc pill to facilitate uptake).

people are being cured all over the world by, primarily, the medicine that has been around for over half a century while WHO never once said a peep, not one “Boo” even, about it being “dangerous”... WHO only spews this nonsense when its discovered that this well-known medicine (that millions of people have received for other issues) can help people get well from, defeat the Virus from Communist China. Its as clear as a bell who WHO is working for, and it ain’t us and it ain’t USA and it sure ain’t any of the folks who caught this Virus, that’s for sure!


9 posted on 05/26/2020 6:39:49 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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There are two forces that are opposed to this drug and it has nothing to do with its effectiveness. This drug is used to treat malaria and lupus and has been used safely for 65 years. If there is any threat it is because those running the study are not conducting the study properly. Throughout Africe this drug is being used almost exclusively to treat Covid 19 and in central Africa where Malaria is common there are almost no deaths from Covid 19. Pharmaceuticals and those invested in a risky vaccine do NOT want any alternatives to be good enough. Many see Covid as a way to increase international and political power much as they saw Global Warming before.


10 posted on 05/26/2020 6:40:00 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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I guess all the Lupus and RA patients should be taken off the drug then, right?

Because the drug knows what you are using it for, and if you use it for what Orange Man said to use it for, the drug will kill you righteously.

/s


11 posted on 05/26/2020 6:41:20 AM PDT by chris37 (China's Gift wasn't born in a bowl of bat soup.)
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#2 for $1,000 Alex.

We don't need any more "data" from WHO.

12 posted on 05/26/2020 6:42:51 AM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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Many see Covid as a way to increase international and political power much as they saw Global Warming before.

I agree. If WHO gets its way, coronaviruses will indefinitely shutdown the world, except for "essential" businesses.

13 posted on 05/26/2020 6:43:53 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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this means Youtube is going to keep deleting videos on it. Medcram showed a clip of Youtube decider who said if not approved by WHO then discussion will be deleted

Medcram politely and professionally bashed them.


14 posted on 05/26/2020 6:44:04 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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Let’s see. Thousands of people have taken this drug for years with no apparent dangerous side effects and all of a sudden WHO discovers it is dangerous. More globalist BS!


15 posted on 05/26/2020 6:45:04 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (uff)
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Isn’t it interesting that MSN left out this part: “Tedros emphasized that both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are accepted as “generally safe” treatments for people with malaria or auto-immune diseases.”


16 posted on 05/26/2020 6:45:25 AM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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Meanwhile, Washington University in St. Louis is continuing its chloroquine testing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/washington-university-leads-study-to-test-malaria-drug-to-treat-protect-health-care-workers-against-covid-19/ar-BB14g3tu


17 posted on 05/26/2020 6:45:26 AM PDT by rwa265
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Since HCQ has been in use for over 65 years and has been used by hundreds of millions of people in Africa and Asia for malaria (including me when I was in Africa), with no problems whatsoever, perhaps WHO will show us the mass graves of all these people who allegedly died from the use of this “dangerous drug”.


18 posted on 05/26/2020 6:45:29 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: stars & stripes forever

Definitely #2

From the report:
“We did a multinational registry analysis of the use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19. The registry comprised data from 671 hospitals in six continents. We included patients hospitalised between Dec 20, 2019, and April 14, 2020, with a positive laboratory finding for SARS-CoV-2.”

I don’t know about other countries, but in the US to even get tested one had to be very symptomatic, to get hospitalized one had to be very ill. In other words this is a retrospective study of those past early intervention when HCQ works best. Sorta like the VA retrospective study of patients at death’s door.


19 posted on 05/26/2020 6:46:13 AM PDT by khelus
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To: faithhopecharity
 
 
 
 

20 posted on 05/26/2020 6:47:48 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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