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US vaccine expert fired for resisting hydroxychloroquine hype
- twomoretime 7y ago>There’s no evidence that the drug, touted by President Trump, can effectively and safely treat COVID-19 This is patently false. There may be no quality evidence, but there were multiple papers out before the tweet. The net was buzzing with this treatment since something like February, when a paper surfaced[1] from a Dutch researcher who found that chloroquine seemed to work on SARS. The trials supporting the drug are not well done, but if you read those claiming no change of poorer outcomes also are questionable. Further, there has been a conflation online between chloroquine alone and chloroquine in combination with an antibiotic and/or zinc. There is a proposed mechanism of action and there is also evidence that because COVID19 attacks immune cells, patients may be succumbing to opportunistic infections and it's the antibiotic that is doing the real work. In any case and in simple terms, people want this to fail because they want Trump to be wrong. The exclusively negative treatment by the popular online and TV media only fuels the fake news narrative. 1.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/