Hydroxychloroquine

Hydroxychloroquine  (drug)
Start	1938
Abbreviation	HCQ
Interest of	• Rick Bright • Marilyn Gladu • Craig Kelly • Martin Landray • Peter McCullough • Karen Whitsett • Zev Zelenko
A generic drug used to alleviate the symptoms of severe COVID-19 cases, with potential to significantly reduce the disease's case fatality rate.

Hydroxychloroquine is a drug on the WHO's List of Essential Medicines, the safest and most effective medicines needed in a health system. In 2017, it was the 128^th most commonly prescribed medication in the US with more than five million prescriptions. It is used worldwide to successfully treat COVID-19 although the WHO cancelled some trials of it, citing safety concerns.

COVID-19

Hydroxychloroquine has been widely used worldwide to treat COVID-19 and was found to significantly lower the disease's case fatality rate, especially when given early on.

Safety

Hydroxychloroquine has more than five million prescriptions per year. After it emerged as a possible treatment for COVID-19, concerns were raised about its safety.^{[By whom?]} The Lancet published a paper suggesting it had heavy side effects, then withdrew it after it was discovered to have been published by a shell company. The RECOVERY study in the UK also suggested it was dangerous, but involved very high doses that exceeded its dose for other illnesses.

On 4 July 2020, the WHO discontinued a trial involving hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir for hopitalized patients, citing safety concerns.

Legal status

In a 23 March 2020 executive order, the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, barred pharmacists from filling prescriptions for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine as part of clinical trials for COVID-19. In early April 2020 Anthony Fauci opposed the use of either drug as a treatment for severe cases of COVID-19, instead recommending the experimental (and considerably more expensive) remdesivir. By August 2020, with a lot of data showing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, Jim Hoft was calling for Fauci's arrest.

Challenge

In June 2020 the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons filed a lawsuit against Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA for their “irrational interference” to hydroxychloroquine for treatment of patients.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"COVID-19/Vaccine"	“A vaccine is at least a year away, and success is uncertain. Treatments that hold promise need to be evaluated rigorously.”	World Bank/Human Development Practice Group
COVID-19/Censorship	“He Craig Kelly needs to decide what is the appropriate thing for a member of Parliament to be commenting on.”	Paul Kelly	January 2021
Ivermectin	“I want to bring attention to two critical deficits in our national treatment response that has made this hearing necessary in the first place. Besides the early interest and research into hydroxychloroquine, we can find no other significant efforts to research the use of any other already existing, safe, low-cost therapeutic agents. Seemingly the only research and treatment focus that we have observed on a national scale is with novel or high-cost pharmaceutically engineered products”	Dr. Pierre Kory	December 2020
Christian Perronne	“The problem with all the drug [regulatory] agencies in the world—the FDA in the United States, the European Medical Agency, the French drug agency—they all say “No, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work; azithromycin doesn’t work; ivermectin doesn’t work,” despite many, many published proofs that they work. Because if they acknowledge that they do work, it’s impossible for them to market their so-called “vaccines”. That’s the only reason; it’s a marketing reason.”	Christian Perronne	13 August 2021
Karen Whitsett	“If President Trump had not talked about this, it would not be something that's accessible for anyone to be able to get that right now, it would not even be possible”	Karen Whitsett	2020

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