Hydroxychloroquine: how an unproven drug became Trump’s coronavirus miracle cure

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With help from Fox News and Elon Musk, a misleading French study prompted a wave of misinformation that made its way to the president

This weekend, Donald Trump used his daily White House coronavirus briefings to again urge Americans to take hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug that has not been shown to be safe or effective against Covid-19.

 

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jairbolsonaro , leia isso!

theguardian it will be nice to cite the people that first raised the problems, they did a huge work for it PubPeer , MicrobiomDigest schneiderleonid . It is always easy to say 'I say it' when the storm passed, but they were the first to raised against that study...

So, this is populism

thiagookiss

This title is utterly wrong bc it could be misinterpreted as an unproven drug becoming a miracle cure, which it isn't. Disappointing! 'Hydroxychloroquine: How an unrelated drug became Trump's coronavirus miracle snake-oil' reflects reality.

Thaís Luana corre aqui

Follow the money

Bad header

Orange man bad. Yawn. You people are like a broken record.

Hupsel 'What do you have to lose?' eyesight maybe?

GabrielaPrioli Qual é esse interesse súbito de presidentes por hidroxicloroquina na sua opinião, um remédio antes usado para malária?

It’s proven to fight corona type viruses AND not to be harmful if administered correctly (ie. Not the fish tank cleaner that the lady gave her husband.. killing him.. b/c trump 😅) What else do you need when people are dying 😭😭😭

Who exactly has it cured From Coronavirus I mean?

juliacarriew DonaldTrump's three family trusts each have investments in a Dodge & Cox mutual fund, whose largest holding was in Sanofi. Sanofi is the French pharmaceutical company that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.

It’s proven for malaria and lupus and a number of countries are trialing this for covid patients. I hope it works. Think patients should be able to try this, prescribed by a doctor, if their only other option is to wait and see if they get worse and need a ventilator. covid19

Remember this: some people were drinking Tide pods not too long ago

Because he’s learned how to pronounce it

People are dying so it should be considered but hydroxychloroquine can cause many different side effects. Intravenous vitamin C would be even better as it's cheap and safer and has been helping in China & Korea. So why are hospitals depriving patients of IV vitamin C?

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Unproven? Hydroxychloroquine is a well known as an antimalarial, used by lupus patients and those living with Arthritis. He got the idea to try it from various doctors around the world, he didn't just pull it from his arse like the majority of your stories.

Careful with this shit. Look what it did to Trump and Rudy.

I read that the drug suppresses the immune response. The people in ICU are there because their immune response hasn't switched off at the point of killing the virus & is attacking healthy cells causing fluid to build up in the lungs so it does make so sense that this could help.

He never said it’s a cure . He said it eases the symptoms

POTUS TeamCavuto OANN CBS CNN ABC AP NBCNews Why do news outlets say Hydroxychloroquine is an untested drug? It's been in use since 1955. It's patients include babies & pregnant women. It treats malaria & is 1 of 2 approved drugs for Lupus.

juliacarriew OH MY GOD YOU DID IT. THIS is the article I have been WAITING FOR. I've been reading all these sources as a lupus patient, waiting for a journalist to create this timeline. Thank you. Thank you. Fantastic reporting.

juliacarriew Because Trump and Rudy have money invested In the manufacturer

GOP DNC WhiteHouse partisan decisions, as ALWAYS! POTUS said “NO total lockdown, some States are not as bad as others!” Fine, patients prefer to wait; let them wait! Those that want Hydroxychloroquine; give it to them! DO NOT force anyone to take an unapproved drug! myopinion

What I want to know is this. Say Boris Johnson dies and afterward, this drug trial shows an effect that could have helped. Say there was nothing showing this drug was unsafe for Boris Johnson to take right now. How would you revise what you said today?

1/4 - Why oppose studies on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 and immediate attempts at therapeutic use of it as conducted at IHU_Marseille and many other places in the world, juliacarriew ?

Because they have hidden the fact it can treat sars HIV cancer you name it

If any dumb quite Australians take this drug and die. Hunt and Morrison should be put in prison for life.

What are the potential side effects? What are the downsides to trying it?

America is not super power now!

FakePOTUS Perfidy

Please do not test these drugs in Africa, they are not guinea pigs.

Another example of how dangerous Trump is. Gullible would be a good description in this case too.

From this point forward, ALL new and media outlets should have to clearly report who they are owned by and any other influences to their reporting and headline selection. I’m sure you’re all good and true, so you won’t mind doing so.

FDA is too slow as usual. Dr Fauci is a scientist, he follows procedures. But this is war time. They have to move fast to test it. thousands of patients willing to take it, they can have big samples in a few weeks. Want to know when testing will be done?

Perhaps, he has shares in the Pharma company?

This Unproven drug is 50 years old and has been used by million ppl worldwide. Your tittle is twisted!!

Without a doubt - If it were Oprah or Hillary Clinton, and not Donald Trump endorsing 'hcq', the media attention would be very different 😕

Ok, so I'm gonna come back to this garbage reporting in a few weeks and see

Amen

Guardian, there is a non side effect cure published in orthomolecular journal, china edition. Can we trust u to look it up on your own ?

Does he have shares in the company or has he seen an investment opportunity?

Falta o complemento : 'e como seu capacho tropical acreditou e trocou a saúde de sua população por um sorriso laranja'.

Why dont you people want this drug to work? Why? You want us all to get Bill Gates vaccine instead? This hate of Trump must end

As far as Trump is concerned any publicity is good and keeps him in the public eye. He doesn’t give a hoot for people, the narcissist

My friend knew doctors in Wuhan university hostpital, where they tested hydroxycholoroquine on corona virus patients . They said they didn't find it as effective as expected on the patients.

Trump is a a habitual liar—if he’s touting a drug, or a solution he is likely making money—he CANNOT be trusted. Let science guide you, not this disastrous president & administration. Trump doesn’t care about lost lives. He wants accolades & high poll numbers. He’s delusional.

More like how idiot jouralists weigh in on things they don't understand. HCQ is safe and has a long history of use.

Message from the one who predicted coronavirus. Dr. Anthony R. Fehr, Assistant Professor of Infectious Disease at the University of Kansas. He was one of about a hundred people in the country studying the coronavirus full-time.

Trust in God and follow his daily briefings!

A Good example of populism in action. Give people hope by talking utter shit.

Not everyone can take it. Not in combination with zinc. Because many people have allergies. It needs to be tested.

It's been around and tested for 30 years if I'm on deaths door dose me up with it .

This elonmusk fellow is turning out to be a nuisance

Not “unproven”. Accurately: Unproven to work on CV19. Evidentially proven anti-malarial drug.

⭐️ Your headline is very misleading and could lead to people taking a drug that is unproven and only recommended by a complete moron of a human. Oh Also... ⭐️ HERES THE TRUTH EVERYONE !!

Ever since trump uttered HCQ it has become a villain in the eyes of democrats, nevermind that it has existed as working drug for malaria for years. It's almost as if it's been politicised or something lol

demori And Bolsonaro!

It was effective against SARS-CoV-1 years ago so China, France AND South Korea tried it, found it to be successful published the (not yet peer reviewed BUT IT'S A PANDEMIC) studies and here we are.

THE CURE MAY BE DANGEROUS THAN THE DISEASE. Doctors also opine that overdose of anti malarial drugs,esp for alcoholics, may lead to serious liver ailments.

appears proven to me

Dr.Donny

Used as frontline treatment in Switzerland for more than a week on all serious cases.. how unproven is Switzerland about medicines and cures?

So you are ignoring the fact that Hydroxychloroquine is voted by 6227 doctors as the most effective therapy against COVID19? Please quit your Trump-bashing. It's tiring. If Trump says drinking water is good for your health will you stop drinking water?

Stock shares in Sanofi?

And he is gonna wage war to get this drug. What a freakin distraction. Confuse the confused

It's probably all about money

I read some of his followers took the tablet in the form of aquarium cleaners (these obviously contain deadly amounts of it) & ended up in hospital...WTF 😱 kind of explains how he is prez tho lol

Psst: he has a financial stake in it, and his crypt keeper, Rudy, bought over $2mm in shares in the drug producer in late February. But I’m sure that’s all just a coincidence

Could be that he has shares in sanofi or something..

Because he has shares in the company in France that makes it maybe?

If its unproven why do you say its a miracle cure then, your statement proves it works

The liar in chief must have stock in it

Why hasn't this drug been tested & proven?!! Clinical trials with this drug.... Come on, do something!

He may have his own reason for saying that but we've known him for a while now, that's how he talks. As if he has no idea at all.

Well see if it works; it needs to be tested and evaluated over a period of time before its made to the public. I recall, the news stating that someone had died because they took this.

What does the Coronavirus do to you? ❓❓❓❓ CoronavirusOutbreak...

I call bullshit, for the last time, there is no virus it's just the flu with the added fact that radiation is zapping all of our oxygen, stop, now! I'm cancelling my donation and calling everyone I know to also! GuardianGuardingTHEM

The quintessential ‘snake oil salesman’ just found himself a new batch to sell!

Now it's a miracle cure. See what the left does?

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