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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo, you idiots. There is no war on hydroxycholoroquine.
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Just take the damn vaccine. It's not hard!
Comfortably_Numb
(3,844 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Initech
(100,139 posts)And I would bet that Ingraham got the vaccine and isn't telling anyone.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Only idiots believe the carefully crafted lies they deliver so skillfully; but beyond that it wouldn't fit their narratives for any of them to become seriously and publicly ill from Covid.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)is a different story! That stuff needs to be banned.
MineralMan
(146,350 posts)there is no war. No need for one. It didn't work, despite Trump crowing stupidly about it.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)"That's right, the left is blowing up chemical plants and causing innocent vats to malfunction!"
Critical Race Theory
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Nobody wants your snake oil.
Haggard Celine
(16,867 posts)my dad turned the channel to Fox News for a few minutes. They were talking about that malaria drug and how wonderful it is at fighting Covid. They had some 'expert' on there who was saying that the drug was saving people's lives 80-90% of the time in different hospitals all over the country. My guess is that the pharmaceutical company that makes the drug has a huge stockpile of it and they're paying people to hype it. It's all so stupid.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)cases.
Initech
(100,139 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,039 posts)There was an article about some state that bought a huge stockpile and now wanted their money back.
Oklahoma?
Haggard Celine
(16,867 posts)Thanks for the reply.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)As to the above poster, yes malaria drugs ARE excellent.. AT FIGHTING MALARIA.
Just like covid vaccines are excellent AT FIGHTING COVID.
dont worry tho, your parents arent the only ones
Malaria drugs wont do fuckall against covid, because covid is not malaria.
'This isn't even apples and oranges. Its kittens and fucking marmalade.'
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)by Paul Monies
May 7, 2021
Oklahomas purchase of $2.6 million worth of a much-hyped drug to treat COVID-19 will end where it started: back at the California drug wholesaler who sold the shipment a year ago at the outset of the pandemic.
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said Friday the state had reached an agreement with FFF Enterprises Inc. to take back the 1.2 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. The agreement means the company wont face a lawsuit alleging the state overpaid for the drug, which is commonly used to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and to prevent malaria. FFF denied overcharging the state ...
They recognized we were in competition with every other state in the nation to get whatever we could to protect Oklahomans, Hunter said. When it was determined the drug wasnt effective in combating the virus, they did the right thing by refunding our money ...
https://oklahomawatch.org/2021/05/07/oklahoma-finds-buyer-for-its-hydroxychloroquine-supply/
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)In the plea agreement, Richards admitted that, in April of 2020, he imported and received over 50 kilograms of misbranded and mislabeled chloroquine from China. Richards admitted that the chloroquine was falsely mislabeled as Boswellia Serrata Extract and that the drug was not manufactured and prepared by an establishment registered as a drug manufacturer with the Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, the labeling on the drugs failed to bear adequate directions for use as required by federal law. Richards has also been ordered to pay for the destruction of the drug by proper authorities with the United States Food and Drug Administration ...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/utah-pharmacist-sentenced-receipt-misbranded-drugs-imported-china
Utah pharmacy CEO sentenced to probation for importing drug
Addy Bink
Posted: Apr 7, 2021 / 01:34 PM MDT / Updated: Apr 7, 2021 / 01:34 PM MDT
In March 2020, the state of Utah purchased 20,000 units a cost of $800,000 of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment option for COVID-19 from the Utah compounding pharmacy, Meds in Motion, the company for which Richards serves as CEO and founder, according to its website.
In late April 2020, the Governors Office confirmed the state had be refunded for their purchase of the malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as a treatment for COVID-19 ...
https://www.abc4.com/news/local-news/utah-pharmacy-ceo-sentenced-to-probation-for-importing-drug-from-china/
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)spanone
(135,924 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,839 posts)I saw this bullshit study being cited by some low IQ TFG supporters and knew that it was bogus. This study is so bad and poorly done that only a TFG supporter who is clueless as to science and the scientific process would cite it.
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For example, this is not a peer review study but was taken from a site that does not deal in peer review works
The study was posted May 31 on medRxiv, a website that publishes studies that have not been fully vetted. This note is posted with the study: "This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice."
he website also says about its "preprint" or "unrefereed" articles: "Before formal publication in a scholarly journal, scientific and medical articles are traditionally certified by peer review. In this process, the journals editors take advice from various experts called referees who have assessed the paper and may identify weaknesses in its assumptions, methods and conclusions Readers should therefore be aware that articles on medRxiv have not been finalized by authors, might contain errors, and report information that has not yet been accepted or endorsed in any way by the scientific or medical community."
The analysis concludes that this study is poorly designed and the conclusions are not supported. Politifact interviewed several real scientists who concluded that this study is flawed and should not be relied on (even by low IQ TFG supporters).
Here is the conclusion about this study
A widely shared social media post stated: "Study: hydroxychloroquine can boost COVID-19 survival chances by nearly 200%."
A study says a certain dosing of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin "improves survival by nearly 200%" among hospitalized COVID-19 patients who received invasive mechanical ventilation, but the post exaggerates the findings significance.
The study is posted on a website that publishes studies that "have not been finalized by authors, might contain errors and report information that has not yet been accepted or endorsed in any way by the scientific or medical community." Experts told PolitiFact the study is poorly designed and that no conclusion about cause and effect should be drawn from it.
For a statement that contains only an element of truth, our rating is Mostly False.
I am amused that the RWNJ believe that this study is meaningful.