Hydroxychloroquine
 Hydroxychloroquine  (drug)   | |
|---|---|
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| 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 128th most commonly prescribed medication in the US with more than five million prescriptions. In 2020 it was increasingly widely used to treat COVID-19[1][2][3]. In an event termed "LancetGate", on 22 May 2020 the The Lancet published a study which highlighted risks of using the drug to treat COVID-19 only to retract it on the 5 June, an apparent part of a systematic campaign to undermine its usage.[4] The WHO also cancelled some trials of the drug, citing safety concerns.
Contents
COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine has been widely used worldwide to treat COVID-19[1] and was found to significantly lower the disease's case fatality rate, especially when given early on.[5][6][7][8]
Safety
Hydroxychloroquine has more than five million prescriptions per year.[citation needed] After it emerged as a possible treatment for COVID-19, concerns were raised about its safety.[By whom?] Trials were stopped .[9]
Lancetgate
The Lancet [When?] "published a report that HCQ caused 35% more deaths due to adverse effects of the drug in another trial".[9] By late May 2020 "140 academics and clinicians around the world have challenged the veracity of that Lancet article".[10] The Lancet withdrew the paper after within 13 days[9] 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.[11]
On 4 July 2020, the WHO discontinued a trial involving hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir for hopitalized patients, citing safety concerns.[12]
On 17 June 2020 the WHO stopped a trial on HCQ concluding that "there was no reduction in mortality’ with the drug", but without publishing any data. On the same day, the UK Recovery trial (funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) was also stopped, reaching the same conclusion.[9]
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.[13] By August 2020, with a lot of data showing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, Jim Hoft was calling for Fauci's arrest.[14]
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.[1]
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 |
References
- ↑ a b c https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/06/association-american-physicians-surgeons-sues-fda-irrational-interference-access-life-saving-hydroxychloroquine/
- ↑ https://disrn.com/news/yale-epidemiologist-hydroxychloroquine-is-the-key-to-defeating-covid-19
- ↑ https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=KSASKSUAW4MX
- ↑ https://www.globalresearch.ca/scientific-corona-lies-and-big-pharma-corruption-hydroxychloroquine-versus-gileads-remdesivir/5717718
- ↑ https://milnenews.com/2020/07/03/new-study-found-hydroxychloroquine-helped-lower-death-rate-of-covid-19-patients/
- ↑ https://www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study
- ↑ https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/yale-epidemiologist-says-hydroxychloroquine-key-defeating-covid-19
- ↑ https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/the-hydroxychloroquine-scandal
- ↑ a b c d https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/greshams-law-covid-19-pandemic
- ↑ https://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2020/05/hydroxychloroquine-keeping-you-updated.html
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-highly-touted-hydroxychloroquine-study-turns-out-be-joke
- ↑ https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/04-07-2020-who-discontinues-hydroxychloroquine-and-lopinavir-ritonavir-treatment-arms-for-covid-19
- ↑ https://journal-neo.org/2020/04/15/the-remarkable-doctor-a-fauci/
- ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/jail-fauci-massive-international-study-shows-countries-early-hcq-use-79-lower-mortality-rate-huge-talking-120000-american-lives/
