{"id":56632,"date":"2020-07-03T18:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T23:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56632"},"modified":"2020-07-03T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T23:27:52","slug":"56632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56632","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t see the need for the ?<\/strong>, but that’s just me<\/p>\n

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Trump Vindicated? New Peer-Reviewed Hydroxychloroquine Study Shows Reduced COVID-19 Mortality.<\/a><\/p>\n

A new large-scale study conducted by the Henry Ford Health System concluded that hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug touted by Trump as a potentially game-changing treatment for the coronavirus, successfully lowered mortality rates for hospitalized coronavirus patients. The results were published Thursday in the peer-reviewed\u00a0International Journal of Infectious Diseases<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just The News\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on its findings:<\/p>\n

The study examined 2,541 patients who had been hospitalized in six hospitals between March 10 and May 2, 2020.<\/p>\n

More than twenty-six percent (26.4%) of patients who did not receive hydroxychloroquine died.<\/p>\n

But among those who received hydroxychloroquine, fewer than half that number \u2014 13% \u2014 died.<\/p>\n

More than 90% of the patients received hydroxychloroquine within 48 hours of admission to the hospital. Scientists say giving the drug early during illness may be a key to success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The study also determined that there were no adverse effects on the heart, despite previous reports.<\/p>\n

Will the mainstream media give this study the attention it deserves? I bet they won\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Hydroxychloroquine had several success stories ignored by the mainstream media<\/h4>\n

In May,\u00a0a survey of doctors<\/a>\u00a0found that an overwhelming majority \u201cwould prescribe hydroxychloroquine or another anti-malaria drug to a family member\u201d suffering from the coronavirus. The media didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Success stories from coronavirus patients who recovered after being treated with the drug have also been widely ignored. In April, a\u00a0Democrat lawmaker in Michigan\u00a0credited the drug and President Trump with saving her life<\/a>. State Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat, tested positive for the coronavirus in March, and had been aware of\u00a0 \u201cthe wonders\u201d of hydroxychloroquine after a previous Lyme disease affliction, but would never have thought to ask for a prescription for it to treat the coronavirus had Trump not been touting it as a possible treatment for COVID-19. Whitsett took the drug in combination with antibiotics and made a full recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a lot to do with the president \u2026 bringing it up,\u201d Whitsett said. \u201cHe is the only person who has the power to make it a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other coronavirus patients\u00a0have reported dramatic recoveries after taking the drug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous studies linking hydroxychloroquine to higher mortality were faulty<\/h4>\n

In April,\u00a0the results of a U.S. Veterans Health Administration study<\/a>\u00a0on the benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus were released. The study analyzed the impact of hydroxychloroquine with and without the antibiotic azithromycin and compared that to patients receiving standard care. The VA study found there were \u201cmore deaths\u201d among those given hydroxychloroquine than those who just received standard care. However, the VA study wasn\u2019t a clinical trial, but a small, non-peer-reviewed study of patients that were not representative of the entire population, and more severe cases were disproportionally administered the drug.<\/p>\n

In May,\u00a0multiple studies claimed<\/a>\u00a0that the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was linked to higher rates of mortality with coronavirus patients. In response to this study, the World Health Organization and many national governments changed their policies and treatment guidelines, effectively halting trials of the drug, and shelving it as a coronavirus treatment. But it turned out that those studies were based\u00a0on possibly bogus data<\/a>\u00a0from a small America-based company called Surgisphere.<\/p>\n

The revelation of the faulty data resulted in top medical journals retracting the studies linking hydroxychloroquine to higher mortality.<\/p>\n

Anti-chloroquine sentiment was entirely linked to anti-Trumpism<\/h4>\n

Early on, there was enough positive\u00a0anecdotal evidence<\/a>\u00a0about hydroxychloroquine to make it clear that the media\u2019s attempt to portray it as poison is purely political. Despite the slew of positive results of the drug, a Democratic state lawmaker in Ohio\u00a0moaned<\/a>\u00a0that Trump should be tried for \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d for touting the drug\u2019s potential.<\/p>\n

The war on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine began almost immediately after Trump touted it as a potential gamechanger in the fight against the disease. Trump was accused of \u201cpracticing medicine without a license\u201d simply for pointing out that the drug showed promise in some small studies. The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0even alleged that Trump\u2019s motivation for touting the drug was self-serving\u00a0because he holds \u201ca small personal financial interest\u201d in Sanofi<\/a>, even though the drug is out of patent (any pharmaceutical company can manufacture it) and he only owned\u00a0$29 \u2013 $435 in stock as part of a mutual fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The media was so focused on how they could use the pandemic to undermine Trump\u2019s chances of reelection that they rushed to downplay any sign of hope, which, perhaps prevented the drug from being used to saved lives. Anti-hydroxychloroquine hysteria by the media\u00a0made finding volunteers for studies difficult<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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