WASHINGTON -- Americans and Canadians alike are used to seeing gauzy, pastel-coloured pitches for medicines, therapies and treatments on cable television. They're less accustomed to hearing them delivered live from the White House briefing room.
"It's disheartening," said Tew, who described hearing stories online from other lupus patients being warned by their pharmacies that they wouldn't be able to refill their prescriptions -- and in one case, being told by a doctor's office that they would be denied the drug entirely. Since then, although manufacturers insist that the supply of the drug in Canada is currently at typical, pre-pandemic levels, vendors are using historical purchase trends to restrict pharmacies to a 30-day limit on how much they can purchase, he said.
People close to Trump, including billionaire Larry Ellison, television doctor Mehmet Oz and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani have all been pushing the president to expedite approving the drug for COVID-19, the Times reported. It's also been a popular talking point on Fox News, Trump's preferred cable-news indulgence.
The Trump administration's enthusiasm for the drug is based on anecdotal studies conducted on a relative handful of patients, said Dr. Allen Zagoren, a surgeon and professor of public administration at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Plus he apparently has investments in the company doesnt hurt either so it's a win win for him.
Once, just once. I’d love to see the media hold trudeau to the same standard as trump. Imagine if trump did blackface, snc, multiple ethic violations, West Point sex scandal, Agha Kahn, coward in a cottage, obstruct justice twice. Imagine. Just imagine. TrudeauIsNotFitForOffice
If you are sick with a deadly disease, and there is no cure, wouldn’t you want to try anything that might be helpful ?
CTV...I hope you all don't look like Jackasses in the future if this treatment being touted turns out to be the real deal.....if so your network might as well reboot He-Haw....since the cast is already on hand.
Just stop reporting on this so we don't have to hear about it. I'd rather hear about the Home Care nurses who are going into patients homes to continue looking after them. No one talks about us!
Ctv a sellout Corruption FreePress Liars
If only you fake news turds held Trudeau to the same lofty standards! But alas he pays you MILLIONS a year for positive coverage!
Drug is also off patent
It is not unproven to the people who have been healed.
Unproven dose not surprising personal are all frauds. With there uneducated theories and unproven hypotheses.
He's clutching at straws, hoping to hit a home run.
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Why is the American medical association and the pharmacist association doesn’t go live and tell Trump that what he’s doing is not to his intellect level.
As usual, he is talking about something that he is NOT QUALIFIED to talk about! Why isn’t he STOPPED? He’s done enough DAMAGE already! Wake up, People!
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This is more CTV fake news
this dumb ass says the US will stop funding the WHO, but it is OK for him to make almost everything he say up. He did not listen to his own sources about Corona, did not have any test kits, wanted to return people to work way earlier than necessary
Open your eye. For some it is working. Why do you ask Trudeau why he is hiding and lying about it
Witch doctor
Spin doctors of deflection from JT. Must be some funding up for grabs.
Trump NEVER does ANYTHING unless he personally benefits from it. To learn he has stock in a company that produces the drug its not suprising why he is touting an untested drug that can negatively affect some ppl.
You are complicit.
But will it help TDS sufferers? That’s the real question. That disease is so far incurable, as the victims refuse to listen to facts.
Dear CTV news.. will you please stop collecting corporate welfare.. thank you!
And in Canada Health Canada would rather let you die than give you a chance.
Oh but the Chinese Virus is a Hoax he says, oh it will pass he says, oh america will be just fine in a month he says, wow, what a tool.
Because he has shares in the freaking company. I hope they put him his older kids in jail. This is one person I HATE
Probably has shares in the company that makes the drug
You didn’t even answer the question you posed in the headline.
Dr. CTV, why do you disbelieve when the sick have healed! Nothing good to say about Trudeau, so you jump on Trump?
Why don’t you leave Donald Trump to take care of his country and talk about our inept leader really getting sick of this !
Dr Donald, if you have Covid and will die in the next 48 Hours please confirm you won’t give hydroxychloroquine a try. It’s been used for 60 years. Trump has a small investment via a mutual fund? he’s trying to save lives. Any other ideas to those who will be dead by Friday?
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, when taken together, can prolong your heart’s QT interval, which is the time it takes for the ventricles to contract and relax. Early after-depolarizations during this time can cause torsades de pointes and lead to sudden cardiac death.
All countries are studying it. There must be some credibility to it if you’re dying why not give it a shot
Because he does not want US to be GOVERNED by WHO ? And because our cdnmedia accepts that independent and sovereign countries be GOVERNED by NON elected individuals, with political preferences, at WHO ? I do not remembers voting for ANY of those who now DICTATE our LIVES.
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Karen Whitsett a Democrat state rep. from Michigan thanked Trump for saving her life. She took hydroxochlorquine and her covid-19 symptoms improved in less than 2 hours. But simply because of people’s hatred for Trump, many people may die unnecessarily.
Doctors can or cannot write a prescription. Many doctors choose to and it is working. Take it or don't take. Individual decisions. CTV headlines cn hurt people.
Typical CTV ( northern CNN) bullshit
CTV with another American political opinion piece, while our PM sits in his home sucking his thumb on day 27 of his 14 day quarantine. What would this article say if Trump disapproved the use of Hydroxychloroquine?
YO CTV. Can you STOP bashing POTUS for 5 seconds and focus on The Coward of the County trudeau? Why is he still hiding? Who is he hiding from? WHY isnt he out there like fordnation actually working? What exactly is 'moist talking' is that the NEXT socially correct phrase
CTVNews has turned to fake news and garbage just like Toronto Star, CNN, MSNBS... People are not THAT stupid. We read great results about hydroxychloroquine and we see through your lies and deception. One day the mainstream media will be judged for their crimes against humanity.
It saved a reporters 96 yrs old fathers life.
Trump is already being proven correct and will be fully vindicated soon. Of course don't expect CTV or any other media outlet to issue an apology.
DR. CTV, why one of the major Canadian networks uses Trump as a constant distraction in order to not focus on their disastrous PM who pays them to do so.
So what EXACTLY is the reason President Trump is touting the drug many doctors say can/has worked?
couldn't get past paragraph 2. surprised this idjit didn't dissemble the rumor that Trump owns shares in the drugs production. maybe he did, just didn't get that far. CTV, your bias is showing, tuck it in.
LA Doctor “Every patient I’ve prescribed it to has been very, very ill and within 8 to 12 hours, they were basically symptom-free,” he stated Sunday on KABC-TV.
His name should be Dr. Death the only thing he’s doing is promoting a drug because he’s buddies have drug companies and he’s got money Invested with them
Ass%%%e
Man who almost died from coronavirus tells Fox News how drug backed by Trump saved his life.
Morocco hospitals to use antimalarial drugs against coronavirus. Health ministry authorises hospitals to start using hydroxychloroquine and related compound chloroquine in treating confirmed coronavirus cases.
If it saves some lives.... it's worth it and by the way all drugs have side effects like joint pain etc.... In some cases the side effect may include death 😁
Bahrain, Belgium report coronavirus treatment touted by Trump is working for patients.
Mediterranean University Hospital Institute in Marseille cited not one but three different studies from China showing that the anti-malaria drug called chloroquine has been effective in treating Covid-19 patients.
why can't we just have unbiased news ?
Enjoy the ratio
Fake news.
I wish the Canadian people had $1.5 billion a year to spend on a media that worked for them. You know, like Justin Trudeau does.
'Dr. Donald' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Could you imagine? 😳😳😳
Trump is doing something, not like Trudeau hiding under a rock.
Canadian media sure likes to distract for Canada and its incompetent PM in hiding!!😡🇨🇦
Why the blowback? There are a lot of Drug companies wanting to reap the rewards of developing a vaccine. If a drug has already been developed and with a bit of tweaking can work that just deflated the advantage.
Democratic state lawmaker credits President Trump and hydroxychloroquine... via YouTube
There have been documented cases of this drug being successful throughout North America so get on board with the facts and look at the stories being told with success now. Stop acting likefake news. You have enough to worry about with that punk you call a PM.
Conversely, we have Dr Tam who says one thing, does another, then next day changes her mind and says the opposite.
You should be ashamed of yourself and there's a special place in hell for you.
Because if you become well after taking this treatment you won't need the Bill Gates funded serum that everybody is going to be pushing here soon.
Dr. CTV doesn’t listen to his press conferences and simply shouts “orange man bad”.
If it was Trudeau who had initially voiced hope for this drug, we would be hearing the thousands of success stories where people's lives were saved or greatly improved by hydroxychloroquine. CTV is a disgrace and a joke.
He must have shares in the company.
I’m not pushing medications on twitter because I have zero idea. But I did see the Democrat representative go on the news & say Trump mentioning that drug saved her life. You people (the media) are cowards for distracting Canadians from the disaster that is our government.
CTV SUCKS..
stop lying, hypocrites
Nice ratio, imbeciles.
Hey rejects, is a 99% cure rate unproven? Burn to the ground
Good old left wing state funded news organization. Lots of drugs are used off label to treat other health issues and if it is proven to work even sometimes the patient had a right to try . CTV this is such a bad news story you are the problem in this .
I hope realize by the comments how the majority of viewers see how they are untrusted and how viewers realize msm is corrupt and pushing a narrative we just dont buy. You’ll eat your words when this is done. FakeNews
Basically every doctor that has given hydroxychloroquine to their COVID patients has seen notable improvement in patients. Countries everywhere are using it. But because Trump had hope that it will work, all the media in unison piles on and attempts to discredit it. Disgraceful
So why is Canada testing it? The people with TDS seem to be cheering for this drug fail. Many are looking for hope.
Once again CTV like all the other MSM is critical of other leaders but not from our PM in hiding.
Well with the supposed real doctors if you want a second opinion just wait a day they will change their mind.
CTV gets it's news from CNN fake news!
Cause it works. That's why. We have a coward in power who has done nothing but hide and read shit he doesn't understand.
At the least he is doing something and working tirelessly to SAVE lives. What is Trudeau doing? Sweet fuck all, that's what that useless waste of sperm Trudeau is doing.
You media creeps hate Trump so much you’re willing to let others die.
At least he is doing something, instead you people and Canada sitting on dildos all day
I'm assuming every news source will be doing a retraction when its proven that he's right.
No problem, just refuse to take it if you get sick, because Trump said it might be helpful. Live your conviction like the warmers who won't give up fossil fuel but never stop complaining about it.
Sure can't imagine anyone paying to read this drivel.
Omg shut up. They'd prefer to use a vaccine, than a drugs that has been used since what...1965?
Unproven Get your FACTS right
Dumb article. Orange man bad narrative. So far this drug has shown the most hope and it actively being tested by multiple countries. Why not secure a supply of it? What would we know, we sent 16 tons of our PPE stock pile to China in February. Yes February and now we have none
Dr Doolittle
Maybe because people are on their deathbeds, and with no other medication, and no time for clinical trials, doctors are using it since they have no other options. The media’s portrayal of this plot line is ridiculous.
Idiots. He owns a fund who has 2.9% of fund in the company. Trumps holdings account for a $435 investment
While not as extreme I would posit that many of the pundits and journalists in CTV CBC and globalnews are playing pretend doctor as well. I have heard many bad 'takes' from media about this pandemic when it comes to what doctors are saying.
He suggested trying it if your on your death bed and are going to die! Right to try is the Act. I guess if you don’t have a choice ?
Tam has fucked up literally every single message coming out of her mouth since January. Shes the head of Canada's health initiative against COVID. Where is that story? Or are you as incompetent as she is?
He’s a business man not a president.
Vested interest
Nice one crappy tv
How about you put focus on WHO or is that too much to ask?
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