Trump-Boosted Malaria Drug Showed No Benefit In Study At Veterans Hospitals

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A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1305170
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How long before we get stories about hydroxychloroquine hoarders trying to get refunds?

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Kamala Harris boldly called Trump out as a ‘drug pusher’ when he was touting hydroxychloroquine non-stop in his pressers. She was right. Since she said that the WH has gone awfully quiet on Trump’s wonder drug, especially as more results have come in and trials around the world have been suspended. There is no better example of the farcical and dangerous nature of his pressers than this hydroxychloroquine scam.

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So, Trump, you’re not just killing citizens, you’re killing veterans. Maybe don’t play doctor next time, asshole.

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Doctors were testing it on fake veterans.

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I wonder if this will come up during today’s Daily ShitStorm.

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no benefits for the covid-19 patients perhaps, but there are benefits to the abomination and his scam artist ilk. so let’s not be too hasty to dismiss that snake oil.

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VA doctors are nasty. Everybody agrees.

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Trump’s right-wing media bobble-heads aggressively shilled the HCQ miracle cure and it killed veterans and untold others.

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Everyone who took this drug (or their families) on the advise of FOX news personalities, Dr. Oz, and †Я☭mp need to get good lawyers and sue the shit out of them.

Thousands of lawsuits.

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Not only nasty, they are “Government doctors”, working in “Government Hospitals”.

Part of the Deep State.

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Now, the only thing left to complete the circle would be an investigation of the Trump Crime Syndicate’s pharmaceutical investment activity prior to hydroxycloroquine being hyped by Trump, Hannity, et al.

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Oooops.

the purported miracle drug repeatedly touted by President Trump, showed slightly MORE deaths from COVID19 among those who were treated with the drug.

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Oh, joy. Now we’ll get to watch Trump on his nightly lie-fest tell us how he never recommended it in the first place.

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And once again, we get an AP headline at TPM. Although death is rightly not a benefit.

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Also, I wonder about the extra burden this drug places on the liver at a time when other metabolic functions, necessary during a time of stress on the body, can barely keep ahead of the process.

Let’s have a look at their liver enzyme panels.

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Bader was then asked by Democratic Ohio State Rep. David Leland if he honestly believed that Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was part of a global plot to undermine the president.
“Yes,” Bader replied. “I think this was a well-constructed plan. I think the timing of it was unique.”

The cult continues to find heretics…

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Krugman’s column today focused on movement conservatism’s cultivation of quackery in general, not just on “miracle cures”. Expertise of almost any sort is like a kind of poison to movement conservatism’s “metabolic processes.”

ETA

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Well ya but what was the brand of the fish tank cleaner they were creating their personal cocktail out of . Only trump brand fish tank cleaner has the sure fire virus killing properties recommended by all the beautiful doctors who call the dotard with congrats every day. Even if the host of the virus dies too but hey some things are more important than life amirite?

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