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

irasdad · April 21, 2020, 5:41pm

I understand hydroxychloroquine now comes in grape flavor!

kelaine · April 21, 2020, 5:41pm

Previously, on the Trump Show…

“What do you have to lose? Take it,” the president said. “I really think they should take it. But it’s their choice. And it’s their doctor’s choice or the doctors in the hospital. But hydroxychloroquine. Try it, if you’d like.”

jonney_5 · April 21, 2020, 5:43pm

Surely it is no miracle. But its unclear we are learning anything here. I suspect we are basically being misinformed by being pro vided unvetted info that has little real life context for the lay reader.

We could just as easily say that 80% of CV19 patients on ventilators die but only 5% of those not on ventilators die.

Are ventilators killing people? Or causing worse outcomes? Obviously not. Just that the sickest are the ones getting these treatments.

A clinician will understand, but without this clarifying context this sort of info is more harmful than helpful to the general public.

bobatkinson · April 21, 2020, 5:47pm

His heart was simply full of hope. Aspirational if you will. Beautiful bigly aspirational as all the doctors who call him with congrats on his inspirational work say. Why doesn’t the media ever interview all those people who call him with congrats instead of chalking up his lies. All part of the plot against his outstanding beautiful leadership.

occamscoin · April 21, 2020, 5:48pm

Trump-Boosted Malaria Drug

…along with the PPE, the test kits, and the ventilators. Sly. it took me a while.

douglashh · April 21, 2020, 5:56pm

Meanwhile, the idiot governor of South Dakota is wasting public money to test the malaria drug. How many ways can you spell B I M B O.

ravimssm · April 21, 2020, 5:57pm

Sad part is that hospitals have been using this as standard of care, with no evidence, and newspapers/outlets have not reported on this extensively, while making fun of people promoting this drug. Not sure why the medical establishment was not under more scrutiny for essentially adopting non-medical advice

ralph_vonholst · April 21, 2020, 6:09pm

He’s been remarkably silent on the subject of Hydroxycloroquine for the last several pressers.

raincntry · April 21, 2020, 6:09pm

You mean the guy whose daddy bought his degrees and gave him all he has is not smarter than a doctor who studies infectious diseases and drug studies? Then why did we elect him?

mardam422 · April 21, 2020, 6:09pm

Sure. If you want to believe a bunch of eggheads.

dominic · April 21, 2020, 6:10pm

Trump knew it was deleterious long before people were calling it deleterious.

But OxiClean! Now there is a winner. Just make sure your container label lists “blessings” as an active ingredient. MAGA. (No, Muslim blessings won’t work, fake gods fake gods…)

pine · April 21, 2020, 6:10pm

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO LOSE ?

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

pshah · April 21, 2020, 6:13pm

It was a retrospective study, so not the gold standard. Regardless, the results are concerning for those who have suggested Hydroxychloroquine might be a good treatment option for Coronavirus.

This proves why scientists have a method to their madness, and why that method should be respected. We all want a cure and we want it yesterday, but life doesn’t always work that way. It’s past time for some Americans to grow the hell up, starting with the fake doctor-in-Chief. The reckless comments he’s made has cost lives. Anyone else would be held responsible

rascal_crone · April 21, 2020, 6:15pm

What they need to do is feed those VA patients a steady diet of McDonald’s hamburgers and diet cokes, because it apparently makes you immune from everything.

thepsyker · April 21, 2020, 6:16pm

Access to those drugs for people with conditions the drugs have actually been proven to be successful treatments for?

rocklaverve · April 21, 2020, 6:18pm

I got a guy who can set you up with this stuff. For a price.

pine · April 21, 2020, 6:18pm

YEP !
“This proves why scientists have a method to their madness,”

pine · April 21, 2020, 6:19pm

Unfortunately.

tena · April 21, 2020, 6:27pm

He is certainly giving the entire world more credit for organizing a global hoax than one could possibly have imagined.

Jesus on a jet ski.

ralph_vonholst · April 21, 2020, 6:27pm

One thing that conservatives are really good at is dreaming up all sorts of weird half-assed shit, which, after being dutifully disseminated by the MSM (views differ), ends up wasting a lot of valuable time. Experts’ and goverment officials’ responding to their idiocy would be better employed toward making things better for the common good.