MAGA/Dr.Trump University Fails Again: Study Finds No Benefit from Malaria Drug

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Hydroxychloroquine rated 'most effective therapy' by doctors for coronavirus: Global survey
Drug known for treating malaria used by U.S. doctors mostly for high-risk COVID-19 patients
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No, a survey didn’t find a majority of doctors saying that hydroxychloroquine is the most effective treatment for Covid-19

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A majority of 6,200 doctors said hydroxychloroquine is the most effective coronavirus treatment.

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The poll the data comes from is not representative of all doctors. 37%, not a majority, of those involved in Covid-19 treatment worldwide said hydroxychloroquine was among the most effective treatments.
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When reporting on the findings, MailOnline reported that the majority of 6,200 doctors said the anti-malarial drug was the most effective. That’s incorrect.

Describing it as a majority suggests that more than half of the doctors surveyed answered in this way. While these drugs were favoured more than any other option, it was only 37% of over around 2,000 doctors involved in treatment who considered them to be “most effective”.

Also, that doesn’t necessarily mean these doctors considered the drug to be more effective than the other options. Doctors were allowed to choose more than one option when asked what they thought were the most effective treatments. While 37% picked chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, the majority of these doctors also picked at least one other drug too.

https://fullfact.org/health/covid-19-hydroxychloroquine-chloroquine-treatment/
 
Here4money said:
Dr. Rick Bright, director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, says he was abruptly dismissed from his post in part because he resisted efforts to widen the availability of a coronavirus treatment pushed by President Donald Trump.

"I believe that the president has learned from this case," she told Norah O'Donnell of CBS News. "The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson."
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I'm shocked! shocked I tell ya!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/po...p-administration-warpath-against-him-n1232177

Ousted coronavirus whistleblower says Trump administration is 'on the warpath' against him
Dr. Rick Bright, who was removed from a key pandemic response job, updated his whistleblower complaint with additional allegations of retribution.

A top official at the Department of Health and Human Services who says he was ousted from a key pandemic response job for pushing back against demands to sign off on a coronavirus treatment the president had advocated said Thursday he’d been further retaliated against by the department’s head.

Dr. Rick Bright, who had been deputy assistant secretary of health and human services for preparedness and response and director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, or BARDA, until mid-April, updated his existing whistleblower complaint Thursday with allegations that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar directed staff at the agency to “thwart” his ability to do his new job.

According to the amended complaint, Bright alleged that Azar had told agency employees to “refrain from doing anything that would help Dr. Bright be successful in his new role” and that employees had been warned that Azar was “on the warpath” in response to Bright’s initial complaint.

“Going forward, Dr. Bright will need a collaborative relationship with BARDA to be successful, and Secretary Azar’s direction to BARDA employees is a clear act of retaliation that has impaired his ability to perform his job,” the amended complaint said.

In his initial whistleblower complaint to the Office of Special Counsel filed last month, Bright had said he was transferred from BARDA "without warning or explanation" over his refusal to embrace hydroxychloroquine — the anti-malarial drug promoted by President Donald Trump as a potential coronavirus remedy. Bright also said there was “gross mismanagement" at the agency.

Bright, whose initial complaint sought his reinstatement at BARDA, was transferred to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

In the initial complaint, Bright also described a chaotic response to the coronavirus at the Department of Health and Human Services fueled largely by "pressure from HHS leadership to ignore scientific merit and expert recommendations and instead to award lucrative contracts based on political connections and cronyism.

But in his amended complaint filed Thursday, Bright alleged that after he filed his initial complaint, top administration officials, including Trump, launched a retaliatory media campaign to try to discredit him and that he’d been sidelined at the NIH in an “extremely narrow role” that “excluded” him from the agency’s “work on vaccines, including the vaccine programs that he initiated in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic response.”

“This intentional effort to pigeon-hole Dr. Bright is detrimental to his entire professional career,” the amended complaint said. “He is excluded from the scientific and industry work to which he has devoted decades of his career.”

The amended complaint seeks that Azar recuse himself from the department’s official response to Bright’s initial complaint’s request that Bright be reinstated to his old job.

A week after he filed his initial complaint, Bright testified before Congress that the Trump administration's timeline for a coronavirus vaccine is likely too optimistic and faulted Trump and other senior officials for having minimized the outbreak early on — with, he said, deadly consequences.

As of Thursday, there were nearly 2.4 million COVID-19 cases reported in the U.S. — and more than 122,000 deaths.

Trump dismissed Bright as a "disgruntled employee" on Twitter ahead of his testimony — a tweet that Bright cited in his amended complaint as evidence of the administration’s retaliatory campaign.
 
https://m.theepochtimes.com/hydroxy...vid-19-death-rate-us-study-finds_3410208.html

Hydroxychloroquine Lowers COVID-19 Death Rate, US Study Finds

The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquinelowers the death rate of COVID-19 patients, U.S. researchers have said.

Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. Over 2,000 of the patients were given hydroxychloroquine or the anti-malarial with azithromycin, an antibiotic.








 
Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. Over 2,000 of the patients were given hydroxychloroquine or the anti-malarial with azithromycin, an antibiotic.

The study found 13 percent of those who received hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent who didn’t receive the drug.

Hydroxychloroquine alone decreased the mortality hazard ratio by 66 percent and the anti-malarial with the antibiotic decreased the ratio by 71 percent, researchers said.

The vast majority of patients were given the drug within 48 hours of admission.

“Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives,” neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis, senior vice president and chief academic officer of the health system, said in a statement. “As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”

Patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also had a lower mortality than people who received neither, as did patients who received azithromycin.

“The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,” added Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for Henry Ford, who co-authored the study with epidemiologist Dr. Samia Arshad.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political...rug-hydroxyychloroquine-works-new-study-funds
 
Wallet said:
Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of over 2,500 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2 in the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan. Over 2,000 of the patients were given hydroxychloroquine or the anti-malarial with azithromycin, an antibiotic.

The study found 13 percent of those who received hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent who didn’t receive the drug.

Hydroxychloroquine alone decreased the mortality hazard ratio by 66 percent and the anti-malarial with the antibiotic decreased the ratio by 71 percent, researchers said.

The vast majority of patients were given the drug within 48 hours of admission.

“Our analysis shows that using hydroxychloroquine helped saves lives,” neurosurgeon Dr. Steven Kalkanis, senior vice president and chief academic officer of the health system, said in a statement. “As doctors and scientists, we look to the data for insight. And the data here is clear that there was benefit to using the drug as a treatment for sick, hospitalized patients.”

Patients who received hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin also had a lower mortality than people who received neither, as did patients who received azithromycin.

“The findings have been highly analyzed and peer-reviewed,” added Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of Infectious Disease for Henry Ford, who co-authored the study with epidemiologist Dr. Samia Arshad.

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So you post the one recent study that shows some benefit while ignoring over a dozen recent studies showing hydroxychloroquine has no benefit in treating or preventing COVID-19.

The good news is that approval to use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 has been withdrawn in the majority of nations -- -since it shows no medical benefit. This limits its use to approved situations with individual studies.
 
Wallet said:
Trump Vindicated! MAGA
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Cheerleading this hahaha! Did you cheer when he proved he could drink a glass of water? The bar is now set so low...
Trump’s not a medical expert. You’re vindicating him for a field of expertise of which he has no knowledge.
The job for which he was elected, and for which he should be concentrating, he is dismally failing. The walls ( those that are built ) are crumbling and he’s a lone and desperate fool. He’s being jettisoned by his own party, and the FOX media network.
Put on your prescription glasses. The Emperor has no clothes.
 
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