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Source: Times of India Nagpur: Preventive measures taken by city police’s medical teams seemed to have worked better for them in comparison to their counterparts in Mumbai, Thane and Pune. Out of 423 city cops tested for Covid-19, only two constables — one from Tehsil police station and another posted at control room — have been found […]
Costa Rica resumed the use of hydroxychloroquine after the medical journal, The Lancet, retracted the results of the study that led the World Health Organization (WHO) suspension of the use of the drug.
Source: Times of India NEW DELHI: With hydroxychloroquine regaining its credibility after WHO restarted its trials and the authors of a Lancet study slamming it falling into controversy, India’s Covid-19 diplomacy, of which supply of HCQ to dozens of countries was an important part, could gain ground again. A global controversy regarding the drug and its efficacy as a prophylactic against […]
Source: Saudi 24 News The Egyptian Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, revealed, on Saturday evening, the results of the drug “hydroxychloroquine” on coronary patients in Egypt. Minister Hala Zayed said that the controversial drug, “hydroxychloroquine”, had achieved tremendous results in treating coronavirus patients in the country. Minister Hala Zayed She explained in televised statements that […]
Source: ScienceDirect | PDF of full Journal Pre-Print Abstract In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a meta-analysis on the effects of chloroquine derivatives in patients, based on unpublished and published reports available publicly on the internet as of May, 27, 2020. The keywords “hydroxychloroquine”, “chloroquine”, “coronavirus”, “COVID-19” and “SARS-Cov-2” were used […]
In the hospital he was given hydroxychloroquine and medication for pneumonia, prediabetes, and high blood pressure.
During his 5-day stay at the hospital, he received medications, including hydroxychloroquine.
Preface: On May 22, The Lancet published a study of 96,000 COVID-19 patients stating Hydroxychloroquine had no value in treating COVID-19 and even suggested increased risk of mortality. Literally dozens of studies around the globe, and significant evidence (in the thousands) that is still oddly being referred to as anecdotal, suggest strongly that HCQ has […]
On the 25th of May 2020, the World Health Organisation halted hyrdoxychloroquine trials globally within 72 hours of sighting a publication in the Lancet. They advised countries to do the same. The Lancet’s publication immediately came under severe scrutiny from the many of the world’s top doctors and universities of medicine, as well as various […]
Source: The Guardian The World Health Organization and a number of national governments have changed their Covid-19 policies and treatments on the basis of flawed data from a little-known US healthcare analytics company, also calling into question the integrity of key studies published in some of the world’s most prestigious medical journals. A Guardian investigation can reveal […]
Source: Indian Express In a statement, The Lancet said that “important scientific questions” were raised about data in the paper authored by cardiologist Mandeep Mehra, Desai and Zurich cardiologist Frank Ruschitzka. It said an independent audit has been commissioned. THE WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) has decided to resume the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) part of its Solidarity Trial, a […]
Source: statnews The World Health Organization is resuming a clinical trial exploring whether the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine can effectively treat Covid-19, after pausing enrollment in the study to review safety concerns about the drug. The hydroxychloroquine investigation is just one arm of the agency’s Solidarity Trial, which is testing different therapies to determine which are beneficial […]
Source: The Lancet Expression of concern: Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquinewith or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19:a multinational registry analysis. Important scientific questions have been raised aboutdata reported in the paper by Mandeep Mehra et al—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without amacrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinationalregistry analysis (1) – published in The Lancet […]
Source: Stateline Network Extra What President Trump called a potential “game-changer” in the battle against COVID-19-a safe, cheap, effective treatment, available NOW-is suddenly seen as a highly dangerous drug. Of the fake news and misinformation that has proliferated in this pandemic, the most harmful is the claim that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a serious heart hazard. That […]
Source: AAPS Today, June 2, 2020, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) filed a lawsuit, AAPS v. FDA, against the Food and Drug Administration to end its arbitrary interference with the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which President Trump and other world leaders have taken as a prophylaxis against COVID-19. Two million doses of HCQ are being […]
Source: Science the Wire If you’re following at all the search for COVID-19 treatments, and possibly even if not, you will have seen the flurry of media coverage for the observational study in The Lancet, ‘Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis’. It made the news not least […]
Hydroxychloroquine alone is not the whole story. It needs to be combined with azithromycin and zinc.
Source: BBC Mundo Honduras had one of the highest coronavirus case fatality rates in Latin America. In April, one in 10 officially infected people did not survive. But in recent weeks the country managed to reduce that proportion to less than half. Over the Sula valley, which brings together large cities in the north and concentrates […]
Source: Hindustan Times The results of the study are based on a case control study for which participants were randomly drawn from the countrywide Covid-19 testing data portal maintained by ICMR. As many as 80% of the health care workers (HCWs) on six or more prophylactic doses of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were not […]
Source: Brazil Ministry of Foreign Relations The Brazilian people and the North American people show solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus. Today, as a demonstration of this solidarity, we announce that the US government has delivered two million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to the population of Brazil. The United States will also soon send 1000 fans […]
Source: Xinhuanet LIMA, May 31 (Xinhua) — Peru reported 8,805 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and 135 new deaths on Sunday, bringing the total caseload of infections to 164,476 and the death toll to 4,506. Currently, 8,882 COVID-19 patients are hospitalized, with 988 in intensive care units and on ventilators, the Health Ministry said. Despite WHO’s […]
Source: The White House The American and Brazilian people stand in solidarity in the fight against the coronavirus. Today, as a demonstration of that solidarity, we are announcing the United States Government has delivered two million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to the people of Brazil. The United States will also soon be sending 1,000 ventilators […]
Source: Preprints.org The challenge regarding COVID-19 is to prevent complications and fatal evolution. Azithromycin (AZM) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) have proven their antiviral effect in vitro. We aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of AZM alone or combined to HCQ, prescribed, at an early stage, in patients with Covid-19, in a primary care setting. Eighty-eight […]
Source: France Soir Surgisphere is the company responsible for collecting data from Professor Mehra’s study, which has received worldwide attention for the past 7 days. After our first interview with Mr Mehra who had left us skeptical about the form and content, we became interested in this business. And there some questions arise and surprises. The surgisphere company has: Several addresses that are […]
Source: Medicine Uncensored by James M Todaro, MD (Columbia MD, @JamesTodaroMD)May 29, 2020, (updated May 30, 2020) Misinformation is bad. Misinformation in medicine is worse. Misinformation from a prestigious medical journal is the worst. Herein is a detailed look at the controversial Lancet study that resulted in the World Health Organization ending worldwide clinical trials on hydroxychloroquine in order […]
Source: Brasil Sem Medo Study that rejects hydroxychloroquine use in Covid-19 patients is not science, but instrumentalization of science. The twilight of quinine A study published in the prestigious scientific journal The Lancet , on the 22nd, seemed to definitely change the direction of the public debate on the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment […]
Source: Zeekannada New Delhi [India], May 29 (ANI): After the Union Health Ministry expressed reservations about the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) advisory to suspend hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) usage in treating COVID-19 patients, now, India’s nodal government agency ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) overseeing the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has also written to the […]
Source: The Guardian Australian researchers query origin of data used for Lancet study. Questions have been raised by Australian infectious disease researchers about a study published in the Lancet which prompted the World Health Organization to halt global trials of the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. The study published on Friday found Covid-19 patients who received the malaria drug […]
Source: El Pais The Medicines Agency considers that the conclusions of the study that alerted about the drug are not “solid enough”. The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) considers that the recent study published in The Lancet that warned about the risks of hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus does not provide conclusions “sufficiently strong” to stop […]
Source: Argus Leader South Dakota’s study of an antimalarial drug’s impact on the coronavirus can’t be compared to other studies halted, a Sanford Health leader said. Other hydroxychloroquine clinical trials have involved different patients and dosages than South Dakota’s study, said Allison Suttle, chief medical officer at Sanford Health. Suttle said the study in South Dakota hasn’t […]
Source: Medrxiv View ORCID Profile Amanda Chamieh, Claude Afif, View ORCID Profile Gerard El-Hajj, View ORCID Profile Omar Zmerli, Isabelle Djaffar-Jureidini,View ORCID Profile Roy A. Raad, Raja Ashou, George Juvelekian,View ORCID Profile Jean-Marc Rolain,View ORCID Profile Eid Azar doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.28.20114835 This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used […]
Source: RT360 The Spanish health watchdog has said it sees no reason to stop the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Several European nations, including France, Italy and Belgium, have decided to suspend prescription of the anti-malaria drug, which came to international prominence after the US President said the medicine could be used to tackle Covid-19 and […]
Source: RT Russia Russia’s Health Ministry announced it will not ban hydroxychloroquine. The drug has been suspended for use in treating Covid-19 in France, Italy, and Belgium. On Thursday, the Russian Health Ministry stated on its website that hydroxychloroquine’s effectiveness and safety in the treatment of coronavirus is continually being monitored, but the ministry is […]
Source: El Blog Despite some questioning of the benefits of hydroxychloroquine in patients with coronavirus, by some studies, the drug will continue to be used in that country, said the executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), Román Macaya. The official defended the use that occurs in the country of the drug, […]
Source: Mediterranee Infection COVID-IHU #15 Version 1 du 27 Mai 2020Early diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients: a real-life cohort study of 3,737 patients, Marseille, France Abstract Background:In our institute in Marseille, France, we proposed early and massive screening for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Hospitalization and early treatment with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin (HCQ-AZ) was proposed for the positive cases. Methods:We retrospectively report the clinical […]
Source: Le Devoir Canada Following the publication of the results of a large study indicating that administration of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine alone or in combination with azithromycin to patients with COVID-19 who were hospitalized provided no benefit in the treatment of COVID-19, and even increased the risk of cardiac arrhythmia and mortality, the World Health […]
Source: ABC News Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump is sending over 2 million tablets of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. Bolsonaro made the comment while speaking to a small group of supporters as well as members of the press outside the presidential palace in the capital Brasilia. “[Trump] is sending […]
Source: Zendo In an open letter to MR Mehra, SS Desai, F Ruschitzka, and AN Patel, authors of “Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis”. Lancet. 2020 May 22:S0140-6736(20)31180-6. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31180-6. PMID: 32450107, and to Richard Horton (editor of The Lancet): Concerns regarding the statistical analysis […]
Source: Oxford Academic – American Journal of Endimology Original unedited manuscript as PDF Abstract More than 1.6 million Americans have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 and >10 times that number carry antibodies to it. High-risk patients presenting with progressing symptomatic disease have only hospitalization treatment with its high mortality. An outpatient treatment that prevents hospitalization is […]
Source: Global Research A few years ago the British medical journal, The Lancet, published a paper touting the safety of HCQ. But this was before HCQ with zinc was found effective if used earlier enough against Covid-19. Covid-19 turned HCQ’s effectiveness into a big problem for Big Pharma’s big profits. The solution was another study by medical […]