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COVID-19 can cause a fever, but nothing like the fever of hysteria gripping broadcast and social media over hydroxychloroquine, a potential treatment for the Wuhan flu. Ever since President Trump mentioned hydroxy as a possible therapeutic, the media have castigated it as worse than rat poison. They've criticized any use of it in a constant barrage of fear porn, telling everyone that this 60-year-old drug would kill anyone who dared take it. When Trump mentioned he was taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventative, Fox News crank Neil Cavuto had a seizure, telling his audience, “I cannot stress enough. This will kill...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Wednesday reaffirmed findings by different scientific studies showing the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine cannot cure COVID-19. Fauci made this declaration a day after President Donald Trump again promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a cure, as well as other COVID-19 misinformation, in a series of tweets. On Wednesday, Fauci pointed out all valid scientific data shows hydroxychloroquine isn’t effective at treating SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), the virus that causes COVID-19. “You look at the scientific data and the evidence," said Dr. Fauci. "And the...

Dr. Stella ImmanuelHow many Americans have died of COVID-19 because the Democrat-media complex lied about Hydroxychloroquine?Dr. Stella Immanuel bravely came out on Monday and said that she has personally treated over 350 patients suffering from COVID-19 with Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, and Zithromax and they have all recovered. The doctor also disclosed that she put herself and her staff on Hydroxychloroquine as a preventative.On Tuesday, Dr. Immanuel asked for help getting the truth about Hydroxychloroquine out to the public. “WE NEED YOUR HELP. We are being attacked, ridiculed and discredited. We need our patients to SPEAK UP.” she said in a...

July 22, 2020 (American Thinker) — On July 9, 2020, Asia's biggest and densest slum shocked the world by announcing just one new positive COVID-19 case despite being a cluster and hotspot. Dharavi is no ordinary slum. It is one of the densest in the world, housing more than a million people. It provided some of the background for the Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Dharavi contains pockets where as many as 650,000 people are crammed into 2.5 square kilometers. In comparison, New York City has only around 95,605 people for 2.5 square kilometers. Advertisement India feared the worst when a...

U.S.—Trump voters who say they are being increasingly targeted and harassed for supporting the president have turned to wearing hydroxychloroquine necklaces to ward off Liberals. Liberals, who are notoriously terrified of the tiny white pills, tend to cower and run away in terror upon seeing hydroxychloroquine. According to clinical studies, Trump voters who wear necklaces strung with hydroxychloroquine are 63% less likely to be attacked by a leftist on the way home from work or the grocery store. "We didn't know what else to do," said local Trump fan Judy Jugglebumkins as she loaded a cart of GOYA foods into...

Hydroxychloroquine has been touted by President Donald Trump as a way to treat and prevent the coronavirus. The Ohio pharmacy board planned to ban the drug as a COVID-19 treatment until Gov. Mike DeWine spoke up about it. The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy has changed course on its ban of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as coronavirus treatments following the governor’s urging to do so. Beginning Thursday, pharmacies, clinics and other medical institutions were to be prohibited from dispensing or selling the drugs to treat COVID-19, according to regulations issued by the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy. They could...

Morning Joe might well have renamed itself "Schadenfreude Central" today. The show opened with an extended segment devoted to the news that mask-skeptic Republican congressman Louie Gohmert has announced that he has contracted the coronavirus. To be sure, Joe, Mika, and Willie bent over backward to let you know they really, really, really hope Gohmert "is okay," with each of them putting their pious good wishes on the record. Except . . . someone should have told Scarborough not to laugh, smirk, and smile as he introduced the segment, saying, "Louie, Loui-e-e-e, Louie."Get the rest of the story and view...

In the past few days, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have removed from their sites a video in which a group of doctors endorse the use of hydroxychloroquine, in combination with the antibiotic Zithromax and zinc, as an effective treatment for early stage COVID-19. The social media platforms claim the doctors' message violated their policies against publishing what CNN described as "false and dubious claims." Why are these social media giants deciding what treatments work or don't work? How do they know whether claims of hydroxychloroquine's effectiveness are true or false? Before taking down the Breitbart News-posted video, it had garnered...

Stephen Hahn, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on Thursday declined to take a definitive stance on whether people should take hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus, instead saying that decision should be made between a doctor and a patient. "We had data that when this drug was combined with others, there was some risk associated with that. But the question you're asking me is a decision between a doctor and a patient," Hahn said on NBC's "Today" show. "A doctor and a patient need to assess the data that's out there, FDA does not regulate...

As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hours after Governor Mike DeWine asked the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to reconsider its decision banning the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 in Ohio, the board has withdrawn the rule. The board said the decision was made "as a result of the feedback received by the medical and patient community and at the request of Governor DeWine." "This will allow the Board to reexamine the issue with the assistance of the State Medical Board of Ohio, clinical experts, and other stakeholders to determine appropriate next steps," the board said in a statement. DeWine said...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is asking the Ohio Board of Pharmacy to stop a new rule that prohibits the selling or dispensing of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19. DeWine said in a statement Thursday that prescribing hydroxychloroquine should be decided between a doctor and a patient.

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday suggested there was a “money connection” in President Donald Trump’s continued push of the drug hydroxychloroquine to help treat the coronavirus. According to Scarborough, “it makes no sense to continue to push” hydroxychloroquine when “every medical professional says it doesn’t work.”

Beginning Thursday, hydroxychloroquine can no longer be used to treat coronavirus in Ohio. Pharmacies, clinics and other medical institutions will be prohibited from dispensing or selling the drug to treat COVID-19, according to new regulations issued by the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy. It can still be used in clinical trials, said Cameron McNamee, director of policy and communications for the board. Hydroxychloroquine has been touted by President Donald Trump despite medical studies showing the drug to be ineffective at treating the disease. The drug may also cause serious cardiac side effects, according to the Food and Drug Administration....

Joe Biden on Wednesday excoriated President Trump for promoting on Twitter the dubious claims of Dr. Stella Immanuel, the Houston doctor who’s claimed to have effectively treated hundreds of COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine, who the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee called a “crazy woman.” In a virtual event with the UnidosUS Action Fund, a nonprofit advocating for Latino political power, Biden was asked to respond to Trump having repeatedly pushed for public schools to reopen this fall without putting into place effective measures to keep teachers and students safe. Biden replied that Trump should “stop tweeting and start doing something about...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Wednesday he will take an anti-malaria drug that experts have warned doesn’t treat the coronavirus after he tested positive for the virus. "My doctor and I are all in," Gohmert said about hydroxychloroquine during a Wednesday evening interview with Fox News, according to Newsweek. "I got a text before I came on from a friend doctor who just found out he had it, and he started the regimen too — zinc and hydroxychloroquine. And that will start in a day or two, so thank you," the congressman added. Congressional aides confirmed Wednesday that Gohmert, who...

I’ve been noticing this watching John Bel Edwards’ hyper-repetitive press conferences, during which the emphasis seems solely on attempting to demoralize the people of Louisiana about how many of us are contracting COVID-19 and shaming us into wearing masks to supposedly prevent the spread of the virus.But while Edwards’ approach to COVID-19 is, as Jeff Sadow noted earlier today, utterly ridiculous and devoid of scientific basis, he isn’t alone. There are an awful lot of governors, an even greater number of mayors, and even too many federal officials whose approach to the virus is based in stopping its spread rather...

People who claim they were cured of coronavirus by hydroxychloroquine have come forward in support of doctors who have been "attacked" for saying the controversial drug works. Dr Stella Immanuel, one of the doctors who went viral for saying she'd cured COVID-19, took to Twitter to ask for people's help, with friends and family of survivors also coming forward. "We are being attacked, ridiculed and discredited," she said. "We need our patients to SPEAK UP. If you have been cured by this drug, share your story online using this hashtag. #HCQWorks." The Houston GP said she had successfully treated more...