>Fauci, a top expert on the US coronavirus task force, urging for the fast rollout of a vaccine.
Dr. Fauci is either profoundly incompetent or a shill for BIG PHARMA
While Trump was promoting “Hope” in hydroxychloroquine as a “game changer” for treating SARS-COVID19, Dr. Fauci, publicly countered Trump’s message saying that “the only evidence of the drug’s promise has been “anecdotal”, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it.”[1]
Webster’s dictionary defines “anecdotal evidence” as “evidence in the form of stories that people tell about what has happened to them.” Ironically, CNN declaring that “chloroquine is dangerous” based on a “story” told by people [2] who allegedly took what they thought was the same drug outside the care of a physician is a better example of making unsound conclusions based on “anecdotal evidence.”
Trump’s message of hope in hydroxychloroquine was actually based on good science conducted by the CDC 15 years ago! The drug’s mechanism of action as well as its ability to function either as a prophylactic or as a treatment in primate lung cells infected with SARS-CoV was published in Virology Journal in 2005 by CDC scientists[3]. Their paper titled, “Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread” has since been cited by 123 scientific publications from all around the world. But the real excitement behind Trump’s message came from a recent clinical trial conducted in France. Their paper was accepted for publication by scientific peer review the same Trump announced it [4].
The prominent French scientists found that a more potent and less toxic version of chloroquine called hydroxychloroquine, when combined with azithromycin (a common antibiotic) “virologicaly cured” 100% of the patients (n=6) treated with the combination by day 6 compared with 57.1% in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine only (n=14), and only 12.5% in those patients who were untreated (n=16). The investigators concluded that these “results are promising and open the possibility of an international strategy for decision-makers to fight this emerging viral infection in real-time even if other strategies and research including vaccine development could also be effective, but only in the future. We therefore recommend that COVID-19 patients be treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to cure their infection and to limit the transmission of the virus to other people in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the world.”
The fact Dr. Fauci continues to dismiss hydroxychloroquine's potential suggests that he is either out of touch with his own field of science or that he has an ulterior motive. I would bet on both. He clearly prefers vaccines, an outdated "standard of care" and dangerous path forward, not only for our health, but also for our liberty.
References:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/23/coronavirus-trump-anthony-fauci/
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/health/arizona-coronavirus-chloroquine-death/index.html
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Martin J Vincent, Eric Bergeron, Suzanne Benjannet, Bobbie R Erickson, Pierre E Rollin, Thomas G Ksiazek, Nabil G Seidah, Stuart T Nichol. Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread Virol J. 2005; 2: 69. DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-2-69
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Gautret P, Lagier J, Parola P, Hoang V, Meddeb L, Mailhe M, et al. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 2020 In Press.