Major New HCQ/COVID Studies Suppressed By TDS

I'll just provide two links and some brief excerpts, while urging everyone to read the articles and share them.

Monica Showalter at AmThinker this morning does an excellent job with her Bad medicine: Fauci's HCQ Waterloo. Regarding the science angle she largely summarizes an article by Dr. Stephen Hatfill at RCP. Then she draws out the implications regarding Fauci--and Trump:

It's probably going to be hard for President Trump to find a way to fire this guy, but the picture emerging is extremely disturbing. Fauci's suppression of hydroxychloroquine studies, his odd devotion to the new and profitable drug Remsdesivir (which we have noted many NIH officials hold monetary stakes in) and Fauci's earlier papers from years back touting the importance of hydroxychloroquine on other kinds of COVID viruses paint a damning picture of what is going on, a horrible confluence of financial interests and a desire to extend the pandemic to Get Trump at a huge cost of lives. It's time to start thinking about how to get him out of there, fire him, bring in someone serious about using the widely known global knowledge about HCQ who's willing to move on it. This much incompetence is doing tremendous damage to President Trump and American people, both lives and economy. Get him out of there, he now stands exposed as a complete incompetent and has got to go. If Harry Truman could fire the vaunted Douglas MacArthur, Trump can fire Fauci, too. 

I think Trump needs to pull the plug on this guy, but also on some advisers.

The Hatfill article is a summary of major new findings re HCQ which appear to conclusively demonstrate its effectiveness in bringing the Covid pandemic under control--when used properly. Hatfill paints a disturbing picture of the United States floundering in its response while Third World "hellholes" deal with Covid and move on with far less damage. This is a huge scandal:

An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Besmirch

After summarizing the epidemiological evidence that demonstrates the "gamechanging" effectiveness of HCQ when properly used--in the first seven days of Covid onset--and the complicity of the MSM in demonizing HCQ for anti-Trump purposes, Hatfill concludes:

Here in our country, Fauci continued to ignore the ever accumulating and remarkable early-use data on hydroxychloroquine and he became focused on a new antiviral compound named remdesivir. This was an experimental drug that had to be given intravenously every day for five days. It was never suitable for major widespread outpatient or at-home use as part of a national pandemic plan. We now know now that remdesivir has no effect on overall COVID patient mortality and it costs thousands of dollars per patient.   

Hydroxychloroquine, by contrast, costs 60 cents a tablet, it can be taken at home, it fits in with the national pandemic plan for respiratory viruses, and a course of therapy simply requires swallowing three tablets in the first 24 hours followed by one tablet every 12 hours for five days. 

There are now 53 studies that show positive results of hydroxychloroquine in COVID infections. There are 14 global studies that show neutral or negative results -- and 10 of them were of patients in very late stages of COVID-19, where no antiviral drug can be expected to have much effect. Of the remaining four studies, two come from the same University of Minnesota author. The other two are from the faulty Brazil paper, which should be retracted, and the fake Lancet paper, which was. 

Millions of people are taking or have taken hydroxychloroquine in nations that have managed to get their national pandemic under some degree of control. Two recent, large, early-use clinical trials have been conducted by the Henry Ford Health System and at Mount Sinai showing a 51% and 47% lower mortality, respectively, in hospitalized patients given hydroxychloroquine. A recent study from Spain published on July 29, two days before Margaret Sullivan’s strafing of “fringe doctors,” shows a 66% reduction in COVID mortality in patients taking hydroxychloroquine. No serious side effects were reported in these studies and no epidemic of heartbeat abnormalities. 

This is ground-shaking news. Why is it not being widely reported? Why is the American media trying to run the U.S. pandemic response with its own misinformation?

I think we know the answer to those questions. This should be as big a story as the Russia Hoax--with which it has so much in common from a political hoax standpoint.