FAKE NEWS: Hydroxychloroquine was banned this week as a cure for COVID-19 by the FDA
"Banned" my ass. In fact, it is now easier to have your doctor prescribe it if you suspect COVID. This acceptable practice is called "off label" use of an FDA approved drug. I guess nobody told the FDA that those two large negative studies of HCQ were retracted for "scientific fraud" by the Lancet and NEJM two weeks ago in what The Guardian called the most significant retraction in the History of Medicine!
Also, the media is spinning this story for GREED, not because Trump touted it (though its a nice cover story). What really happened is that the FDA reversed the emergency use hold placed on the medication for Hospitalized COVID-19 patients because those studies failed to show any benefit, which was not at all surprising because at least 3 positive controlled trials showed that it worked best as a prophylactic or for initial stages of COVID on an out patient basis.
Ironically, because the EU hold has been lifted by the FDA, now any physician can write a script for HCQ and it will be filled regardless of whether the patient has a DX for COVID. The head of the FDA said this point blank on Monday during the WH presser. (can any docfag confirm this is a reality?).
The FAKE MEDIA is lying for their bosses in BIG PHARMA because the last thing BIG PHARMA wants is millions of people getting cured of COVID-SARS with a drug that costs less than a $1/day.
The notion that HCQ doesn't work for COVID is the biggest lie ever told and can be so easily proven it is laughable. Infectious disease doctors and scientists must be in complete SHOCK at how the MEDIA is distorting the Truth. This will go down in the History books as the biggest SCAM on the world public in history of Medicine. The number of class action lawsuits will be unfathomable because the SCAM likely led to thousands of needless deaths world wide, not to mention the adverse economic consequences.
Why do I say this? Because it was the CDC that discovered that chloroquine, HCQ's cousin, worked for the first COVID SARS back in 2003. They have known for nearly 20 years that it worked and there have been more than 545 papers that cite the original findings.
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1743-422X-2-69
Two elite medical journals retract coronavirus papers over data integrity questions
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/two-elite-medical-journals-retract-coronavirus-papers-over-data-integrity-questions
https://www.ibtimes.com/blame-trump-us-stockpile-has-63-million-doses-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-2996274?fbclid=IwAR3a-MVpJGK9sxm9d9ML9tptHjM0Lo5Hga00bBayP5M-5Dv4HEtrvA59sFg
FDA cautions against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for COVID-19 outside of the hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-cautions-against-use-hydroxychloroquine-or-chloroquine-covid-19-outside-hospital-setting-or