WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is revoking its emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause deadly side effects.
Aren’t they supposed to do that shit quietly in the dead of night on a Friday when no one is paying attention? The nerve of tRump’s FDA to do this to the Royal Orange Fat Ass.
Will we ever find out how many people were harmed, or wasted money on, this bogus “cure”? I can visualize the late-night lawyer ads now: “Were you the victim of Donald Trump’s hydroxychloroquine scam? Call this number!”
What’s Trump’s shineboy DeSAntis in Florida, going to do now?
Just when boi Jared had cornered the market
so unfair ©
But we’ll always have bleach…
Anyone have stats on hydroxychloroquine related deaths in he states? Is it a couple hundred or thousand that Trump caused here?
The move means that shipments of the drugs obtained by the federal government will no longer be distributed to state and local health authorities.
Commissions and kickbacks are of course non-refundable…
Some wingnuts are defending Trump’s health (the West Point Granny steps) claiming the it may be the hydroxychloroquine he self medicated.
Then again . . . side effects of hydroxychloroquine can include a spinning sensation, muscle weakness, uncontrolled movement, loss of balance or coordination, and unusual thoughts or behavior.
No stats but you can rest assured that most were some very fine people.
Somewhat remarkable, I agree.
Remains to be seen if someone will clearly pay a price.
They’ll be fired late on a Friday. That’s truly what Fridays are for with tRump…only someone else has to do the dirty deed.
This is good news for my 66-year-old cousin in CA who has lupus. Since early March she has only been able to get 7 days worth of doses at a time, meaning a weekly trip to the pharmacy.
And besides the FDA is releasing new meds almost every week now if the commercials on TV are any proof of their efforts to fast-track all kinds of drugs for maladies no one’s ever heard of or cared about. BigPhrma must’ve been taking a backseat to tRump’s love of this one drug that’s been around for lupus for ages. Now the FDA can get back to authorizing black box warnings on some of the newer drugs they keep pushing onto the public. The lawyers willing to sue for all those new drugs on the market are just one step behind them if you’ve noticed.
I’m still waiting to learn what the financial profit motive was for Trump. You know there was some sort of graft involved in his pushing this stuff.
In all seriousness there is no count to be found. The best I could come up with is from WAPO on May 22.
Editor’s note: This study was retracted on June 4 by three of its authors who said they could “no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources.” The notice was posted by the medical journal Lancet .
A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a “game changer” in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not.
People treated with hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, were also more likely to develop a type of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, that can lead to sudden cardiac death, it concluded.
The study, published Friday in the medical journal Lancet is the largest analysis to date of the risks and benefits of treating covid-19 patients with antimalarial drugs. Like earlier smaller studies, it delivered disappointing news to a world eager for promising treatments for the novel coronavirus as the global death toll grows to more than 335,000. While doctors have refined how they treat the disease, they have yet to discover a magic bullet against a pathogen for which humans have no known immunity.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/22/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-study/
Tony Fauci’s NIH has funded clinical trials that are going to cost tax payers millions of dollars to appease the Skanky Turdface. Time to yank those trials as well. No point putting American trial participants at risk.
Yes, tRump does set the bar low.
Hopefully, Pump and Dump Trump was able to unload his inventory when the FDA told him what was coming last week.
So he’s been on this stuff for years.