GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Monday that it will temporarily drop hydroxychloroquine — the anti-malarial drug U.S. President Trump says he is taking — from its global study into experimental COVID-19 treatments, saying that its experts need to review all available evidence to date.
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In a press briefing, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in light of a paper published last week in the Lancet that showed people taking hydroxychloroquine were at higher risk of death and heart problems, there would be “a temporary pause” on the hydroxychloroquine arm of its global clinical trial.
“This concern relates to the use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19,” Tedros said, adding that the drugs are approved treatments for people with malaria or autoimmune diseases. Other treatments in the trial, including the experimental drug remdesivir and an HIV combination therapy, are still being tested.
Tedros said the executive group behind WHO’s global “Solidarity” trial met on Saturday and decided to conduct a comprehensive review of all available data on hydroxychloroquine and that its use in the trial would be suspended for now.
Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, said there was no indication of any safety problems with hydroxychloroquine in the WHO trial to date, but that statisticians would now analyze the information.
“We’re just acting on an abundance of caution based on the recent results of all the studies to to ensure that we can continue safely with that arm of the trial,” he said. WHO said it expected to have more details within the next two weeks.
Last week, Trump announced he was taking hydroxychloroquine although he has not tested positive for COVID-19. His own administration has warned the drug can have deadly side effects, and both the European Medicines Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned health professionals last month that the drug should not be used to treat COVID-19 outside of hospital or research settings due to numerous serious side effects that in some cases can be fatal.
Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are approved for treating lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and for preventing and treating malaria, but no large rigorous tests have found them safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19.
What else can you expect from a vjchinesr front organization. They lied about the China virus they lied about how it will effect the world and they still lie about who created and released it
Can you trust anything they say
Fools !!
The few places where 100’s of patients were treated with this medication all saw 99% success.
Arrogant doctors don’t want to consult with small-time doctors to compare notes.
There are 4 simple rules/conditions to follow.
Somebody kindly show me a SINGLE study/research that followed the 4 simple rules, and failed !!!
I repeat, A SINGLE ONE.
The simple rules are the following 4 instructions:
1) A LOW DOSAGE of hydroxychloroquine (those that took higher dosage, sometimes developed the heart problems mentioned).
2) Taken together with Zinc. (The idiocy of omitting the Zinc seems to be rampant. In this remedy, the zinc is no less important than the hydroxychloroquine!)
3) Taken with the antibiotic Azithromycin.
4) MUST be administered within the first 4 – 5 days of symptoms. No later!
(Once the virus has progressed beyond the 5th day, all bets are off.
Most patients come to the hospital after being sick a week. So no wonder trials in hospitals typically fail.)
I reiterate, fools !!!
Read the hypocrisy in the end of this report.
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WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that in light of a paper published last week in the Lancet that showed people taking hydroxychloroquine were at higher risk of death and heart problems,
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said there was no indication of any safety problems with hydroxychloroquine in the WHO trial to date
“safe but no large rigorous tests have found them safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19.”
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but no large rigorous tests have found them safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19.
What does “no test have found them safe for preventing or treating COVID-19” mean? They keep on lying about the safety when no report of a fatality occurred in 8 weeks of use by over 100,000 people in the whole world.
Based on dozens of news media sites, the hydroxychloroquine cocktail was prescribed by hundreds of Doctors throughout the world to hundreds of thousands of patients and not ONE report of a fatality.
Maybe it does not help or prevent COVID-19, but it definitely did no harm.
That is why Honorary MR. DONALD Z. TRUMP took it.
I agree with YD FRIEDMAN. He most probably took the Medicine and it did not have any side effect.
A family member of mine who had terrible symptoms, obtained the cocktail the day Cuomo banned it from NY State and was able to obtain it from the state of NJ came out of it with flying colors 7 days later.
Zelenko, you were right and the eligible bachelor, Cuomo, along with Nancy from California along with Monroe NY experts are wrong.
Just admit it.
Based on dozens of news media sites, the hydroxychloroquine cocktail was prescribed by hundreds of Doctors throughout the world to hundreds of thousands of patients and not ONE report of a fatality.
Maybe it does not help or prevent COVID-19, but no reports of fatalities occurred.
That is why Honorary MR. DONALD D. TRUMP took it.
THE LANCET, THE PRE-EMINENT MEDICAL JOURNAL JUST PUBLISHED ITS STUDY ON HYDROQUACKAZINE. 96,000 PATIENTS. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS. 11% INCREASE IN DEATHS!! 10% INCREASE IN HEART AEURTHMIA!! Google the Report on Lancet. If you love quack medicine and trump, please run out and get some.
Throw the UN out of New York.
We’re giving these highwaymen too much money as it is.
Stop screaming multi names yeller.
So you’re throwing in some Lancet rag to to disprove what many of us have seen with our own eyes? Patients healed with hydroxy, whom we know personally ???
Are you that dumb ??
So you’re calling posters and readers who don’t post fakers even though we all know people who used it successfully.
Nobody gives a Hunter Biden ‘s Ukranian turnip what this paper writes.
Calm down and snack on Chinatown noodles as Dr. Fauci said.
Dance a Cuban Salsa as you munch.
Diversity, you know.
Too much shouting from Ocean Parkway.
Thou dost protest too much..
Not believable