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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 […]
Source: armenpress YEREVAN, MAY 27, ARMENPRESS. The Armenian Healthcare Ministry says the efficiency of the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19 patients aren’t yet fully summed up, but stated: “according to preliminary data positive dynamics are observed in a significant portion of patients”. Armenian Healthcare Ministry The healthcare ministry said the use of hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil) is included […]
Source: Q Costa Rica News Used in the world for decades in the treatment of malaria, a month ago, the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social (CCSS) decided to apply hydroxychloroquine to patients infected with the new coronavirus until a vaccine is available. Thi immunosuppressanta drug is produced in Costa Rica. The medical director of the […]
Source: Middle East Eye ‘We are still using it. It is very effective when combined with other drugs in the early stages of the disease’ – Turkish official Official tells MEE the drug is beneficial when used to treat coronavirus patients, with many Turkish doctors seeming to agree Turkey will continue to use a controversial […]
Source: L’Economiste.com Morocco will not change its treatment protocol.Morocco, which has generalized treatment with Chloroquine, does not agree with the conclusions of the study in the British review “The Lancet” or with the WHO decision concerning the “temporary” suspension of studies carried out with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. “Opinions differ. But, the main thing is that […]
Source: Reuters SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said on Tuesday he takes hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that U.S. President Trump has promoted as a way to ward off the novel coronavirus. Bukele told reporters that El Salvador was not promoting it anymore as a treatment, following the recommendation of the World Health […]
Source: Mumbai Mirror After much back and forth, the Maharashtra government on Monday made Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) a part of its Covid-19 treatment protocol. Hydroxychloroquine is widely used around the world to prevent and treat malaria, but it now has a new role in the current pandemic, which is that of a prophylactic, as it builds immunity against viral […]
Source: India.com New Delhi: Two days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) put a pause on clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for COVID-19, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said that India will continue the use of the anti-malarial drug. “I’m sure WHO will take considered call in coming time. We should trust ICMR’s […]
Source: IB Times Algeria will continue to use the drug hydroxychloroquine against the novel coronavirus, a member of its scientific committee said, despite the World Health Organization suspending clinical trials of such treatments. “We’ve treated thousands of cases with this medicine, very successfully so far,” said Mohamed Bekkat, a member of the scientific committee on […]
Source: Mediterranee Infection Why this discrepancy between the preprint version and the version published in the BMJ? Tang et al. – Data (text and figures) evidencing a favorable effect of HCQ removed in the final published version (version 2 on MedRxiv and final version on BMJ) Version 1: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20060558v1?versioned=true Version 2: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.10.20060558v2 BMJ Final: https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1849
Source: CNA938 BRASILIA: Brazil’s health ministry said Monday (May 25) it would not change its recommendation to treat coronavirus with hydroxychloroquine, despite the World Health Organization deciding to suspend trials of the drug over safety concerns. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has touted the supposed benefits of hydroxychloroquine and a related drug, chloroquine, against the new coronavirus. […]
Source: Within Nigeria The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will continue hydroxychloroquine clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment despite the suspension of the drug test by the World Health Organisation (WHO). This was made known by NAFDAC Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye, who stated that such will be concluded within four months. She […]
Source: Al Jazeera It has been nearly two months since Qatar implemented a series of measures to contain the outbreak of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The government has since closed schools, issued stay-at-home orders and imposed travel bans on travellers from many countries. But while infection rates continue […]
Source: Conexaopolitica Brazilian scientists and academics have written an open letter on the “science” of the coronavirus pandemic. The coordinator of the statement is Marcos Nogueira Eberlin. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and holds a PhD in chemistry from the University of Campinas. After postdoctoral work at Purdue, he founded […]
Source: Recovery Trial Professor Peter Horby, Professor Martin LandrayRECOVERY trial Co-chairsNuffield Department of Public HealthOxford24th May 2020 Dear Peter and Martin RECOVERY trial DMC Chairman’s reportIn the light of the response by MHRA to my letter, I arranged an urgent re- review by the full committee of the safety and efficacy data that were available […]