WHO pauses trial of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns

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The World Health Organization has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns, WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

Hydroxycholoroquine has been touted by Donald Trump and others as a possible treatment for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The U.S. President has said he was taking the drug to help prevent infection.

“The executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the Solidarity trial while the safety data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board,” Tedros told an online briefing. He said the other arms of the trial - a major international initiative to hold clinical tests of potential treatments for the virus - were continuing.

The WHO has previously recommended against using hydroxychloroquine to treat or prevent coronavirus infections, except as part of clinical trials. Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies programme, said the decision to suspend trials of hydroxychloroquine had been taken out of “an abundance of caution”.

 

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WHO . Does the 'gentleman' Ghebreyesus begin to understand what he did to the world (along with China and in some sense doing nothing to Brussels)?

WHO I became trillionaire while I was 4th grade.

WHO emission or pollution. The current President is Joel Baoya who studied in Lasalle but is a cover for the elite school of Ateneo de Manila. I am the Corporate Secretary who founded UP Manila while Robinson is being constructed. Jean Baoya is Treasurer who funded experimentation

WHO Leave the group listen to are doctors

WHO Yup. It’s too cheap, you can’t make any $$ off of it eh?

WHO Please do the world a favor and give hydroxychloroquine to all realDonaldTrump supporters TrumpVirus

WHO The real question is does it work or not? Every drug, I repeat every drug has side effects including the one they claim to be working on. The thing is to pair the right patient to the drug.

WHO This clown is still talking?

WHO Corrupted WHO and Tedros... Trials are nit needed.. hchloroquine is approved drug for 65 games...its also proved effective against SARS viruses in 2005.that sick game.driving mankind towards global no effect vaccination must stop...you will not earn trillions of vaccines dollars

WHO The WHO weren't too concerned about safety when they said Coronavirus was not a risk to humans! Why would anyone believe a word they said?

WHO

WHO It works and it's cheap. Thus the fight against it.

WHO Only after Trump said he was on it. And could someone have a look at the heads off who backbooks I think he got some money for saying what he said about China because everyone knows this Virus came and was prubily made in China and if it's true every county should go to war.

WHO Globalist !

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WHO Your body does not deal with this drug any different if its taken for Malaria or Lupus or not --- If they had to suspend the trials over safety then this drug needs to be pulled worldwide and NO ONE SHOULD TAKE --- sorry LUPUS sufferers this drug is dangerous for you.

WHO Absolute lies--------they are lying to you

WHO donottrustwho

WHO An inexpensive extremely safe drug for decades (according to WHO), raises safety concerns when pharma companies want to push a $2000 ineffective treatment.

WHO All realDonaldTrump has to do to reverse this decision is to condemn HCQ as fake! DrAnthonyF realDrBirx KellyannePolls PressSec

WHO Clorox is the most effective cureTrump2020

WHO Another Covid19 beat up this time on behalf of Big Pharma Just follow the USD$30MIL bouncing ball Rueyters leav out Temporary while we check data from 400 hospitals of 35 nations conducting Hydroxychioroquine trials known proven to be effective for SARS CV1 a Coronavirus

WHO Brown-nose much?

WHO who

WHO What is the essence of put this drug into trial at first. WHO you guys decided to put this drug into trial because you believe it wasn't okay for use until it undergoes trial so why are you suspending the i know why people doubt your professionalism.

WHO Liberal Propaganda

WHO 'Global warning' 'WHO' to all members, Except the United States of America .. The VA can continue using hydrooxychloroquine.

WHO The same WHO claimed 300,000 to 3.3 million Afticans will die of Covid 19

WHO Would the world take Tedros's word for any effin thing. Oh hell nah 🤯

WHO I feel like spitting on his face when I see this man 🤦‍♂️

WHO WHO is bought paid for China Gates chump.

WHO Whatever. None care.

WHO Only patients in serious condition would be no different. Effectiveness is greater in the onset of symptoms, not in this special “foot in the grave” protocol.

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WHO How does this guy still keep his job after the monumental error of managing COVID-19 breakout. Hundreds of thousand of life would have been safe had this guy done his job well. I have personally Lost faith in UN and her subsidiaries.

WHO Don’t tell trump. He should continue taking it. All of it.

WHO Simply put, our media is evil...

WHO The safety of the Pharmafia

WHO Once again puppet dog is out to serve his master propenga because India is supplying HCQ

WHO Under instructions from China.

WHO Oh the WHO said that? The same WHO that said the China virus wasn’t spread by humans as late as January? That WHO.....

WHO I wonder who paid him... WHO . Trust is gone.

WHO Weird how it’s been used for years without issue.

WHO Picture tells more than thousands word - No wonder the use of both Hydroxycloroquine and azithromycine significantly gained increase of Case Recovery Rate to become close to 25% - in May 2020 total cases increased by 115% total recovered jump 255% - chart explain

WHO Politically driven, I wonder the amount China’s paying this lad. FOS(full of shit)

WHO Why is it okay for arthritic patients to be on it for years?

WHO Money money money 💴! WHO=wealth house organisation

WHO

WHO .....and might this be politically motivated Nawhhhhh

WHO Because it worked too well! Bill gates wants to come up with a microchip vaccine and paid off the WHO!!! -idiots

WHO WHO suspended it bc it WORKS.. just ask all the patients who got cured...

WHO You must be in jail !

WHO A drug that has been safely used for decades suddenly has safety issues? Does this mean WHO no longer recommends hydroxychloroquine for malaria and arthritis?

WHO Kick out Tedros

WHO These WHO clowns have such a hard time getting their stories together!

WHO The Lobby of the big pharmaceutical companies is really strong. But the country that wants to save its citizens and shorten the COVID19 crisis, should instead use Hydroxychloroquine to fight the disease.

WHO Let me guess, he decided to do this based on recommendations from China, his chief puppeteer. I'm not sure why anyone would believe anything he says, much less report it.

WHO Most predictable news ever out of the incompetent and corrupt World Health Organization.

WHO Definitely a credible dude

WHO

WHO There goes the funding.

WHO Tedros could ask his bosses in China to stop disappearing people who know about the origins of the germ, too, amid safety concerns for them. Yeah, he should do that.

WHO Beijing Told Him To Do This,His Boss Otherwise How Come Any1 Stop Clinical Trial of Anything? It's Trial

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WHO Forget about the US funding then

Lol. Bet you that instruction came from China

Oh please, it's very safe...ask west Africans 😁😁 but then again the vaccine must be imposed on the people right?

Just like this, that corrupted org. consumed whatever little is still left in their credibility.

LIAR!!

If Trump condemned it , they would call it a miracle drug .... These morons are to predictable

The biggest study ever done on hydroxychloroquine was from before the pandemic. It looked at tens of millions of doses prescribed over a ten year period and found not a single death associated with the drug. Not one. This shit is political.

Misleading. They based their decision solely on a flawed Lancet study that was not double blind placebo. Did not specify if patience were given zinc, when they were administered HCQ or how severe symptoms were. It is interesting however, they are continuing trial of Remdesivir.

In other words, the safety concern is that is rather too safe and in fact kills COVID-19 virus too rapidly for leftist morons using a 70 year old drug as a political tool. I’ve seen many patients recover specifically ONLY because of the administration of hydroxychloroquine.

Petition in China is A lie!We have legal petiton to ZHUYOUGUAN country LONGKOU Yantai Shandong province government for ten years. What we got are just lies and cunning, the evil government shall fall !!!

Millions of people take hydroxychloroquine safely, daily under doctors prescription. The UN is corrupt along with the WHO. Just don’t listen to these liars...

Please

Reminds me of when they whiffed on praising China for their handling of COVID

Give it all to Trump.

WA state gunshot deaths = Corona if they test positive - just being Safe

Chinese propaganda at its best

Ask Karen Whitsett.

Expected , its time for pharmaceutical companies to market new drugs to make 💰, tell me what drug has no side effects ? Ppl who used chloroquine for years to treat malaria developed immunity for covid-19, the only symptom is loss of odour , and u recover in few days.

of course... they want that vaccine! The WHO is a fraud!

Ok china

Guessing this isn't one of the improvements IMPEACHED POTUS was looking for to continue funding?

MichelleHillie7 I dunno . Who?

Safe in malaria use for countless decades....now unsafe. I'm sure it's not political or a low cost treatment issue.

Due to safety? Are you serious? So! Tell me why the doctor of the U.S president tells to him he could take it even though he don’t get any symptoms? Why?

Due to Orange man bad. There, fixed it for you.

What safety? It is just a trial.

Obviously, the W.H.O. is a lapdog for the CCP.

Lakshmi_888 Yet trumps smashing it like it’s his daily vitamin intake 😂😂

Sorry but that is not their role.... scientists in all these trials must be able to take a non political decision of what has been a safe drug until now

Funny how Billy Boy makes Bank during this crisis. You know the main guy behind WHO, the guy already selling his bloody vaccin. WAKE UP!

As far as I know Trump has not been reported covid positive, he took it as a preventative, much the same way you take hydroxychloroquine as a malaria preventative when traveling to malaria prone countries per CDC recommendations. Maybe they should redirect the study.

criminals - it works - that's why!

lol! What trial? Hydroxychloroquine plus Zinc is being used successfully to fight COVID19 all over the world already.

The WHO suspends HCQ trials out of “an abundance of caution”? What kind of global health agency minimizes studies on a viable treatment during a pandemic? Oh yeah, the same one wanting NOTHING but a vaccine. I highly recommend the excellent work of Robert F Kennedy Jr. Study up..

Don’t tell you know who.

But WE want realDonaldTrump to keep going, just to be sure

Someone should tell Trump ... he just throwing back those hydroxies like it’s nothing! TrumpHasNoPlan TrumpGolfsYouDie MemorialDay MemorialDay2020

All WHO'S OFFICIALS should be EXECUTED for their crimes against humanity.

CPP waging an information war against the Trump administration. It's sad that WHO became lackeys

Let data talk - The use of both Hydroxycloroquine and azithromycine significantly gained increase of Case Recovery Rate to become close to 25% though - in May 2020 total cases increased by 115% total recovered jump 255% - chart suggest

It's OK there's aready millions using it We shall see how they get on with Corona. My guess after the dust settles and reviews made, those on Hydroxi will have done better than those not.

Be careful, Donald!

Read the article: At no time was done an electrocardiogram screening to define the cardiovascular risk or genetic of long QT (KCNH2, ALG10B), Brugada syndrome or other arrhythmias to exclude patients at risk for chloroquine use. --

Interesting. DJT PAUSES WHO funding & WHO PAUSES HCQ trials due to morbidity concerns. Hmmm if WHO hates DJT so much wouldn't the opposite action be expected?

Their concern is that people will find out that it’s both safe and effective and that Bill Gates will be really pissed

Fuck WHO?

I won't be surprised if Trump the Covidiot is killed by this drug.

WHO? Wuhan hack operatives

SkyNews KayBurley BethRigby Why aren’t you giving this coverage over a single SPAD?!

Trump will say it’s the Chinese communists’ order.

That drug has been around for almost 50 years. What safety concerns came up suddenly ?

China Said So...

Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis sufferers have to be shocked to learn that they should be dead from taking this medication everyday for years.

Unless you going to malaria filled jungle you probably shouldn't be taking this

Trump and the rest of his cronies that invested in this are going to be furious.

Please don’t tell Donald

Due to safety? More like due to politics.

this are dirty leftists drug mafia gang games against HCQ to promote Remdesivir of Glinead close to George Sorus and Dr. Faucci

Because realDonaldTrump started taking it? 👀

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