CDC tweaks website advice on hydroxychloroquine, drug Trump has promoted for coronavirus
Medical staff at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseille holds a packet of Plaqueril, tablets containing hydroxychloroquine, drug that has shown signs of effectiveness against coronavirus.(GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)
The Centers for Disease Control has tweaked the advice on its website about hydroxychloroquine, the drug that President Trump has enthusiastically promoted as a possible miracle treatment for coronavirus.
The CDC abruptly removed advice about administering the controversial drug that may have led some to incorrectly assume that it has a proven positive effect on coronavirus patients.
The nation’s top health institution added more cautious wording, stating that the drug and others “are under investigation in clinical trials” on coronavirus patients infected.
The website also bluntly notes that “[t]here are no drugs or other therapeutics approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to prevent or treat COVID-19.”
The change comes amid a persistent dispute over the drug and the odd effort by Trump and his right-wing allies to promote it.
“What have you got to lose?” Trump has repeatedly asked at his daily coronavirus press conferences.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top doctors warn that clinical tests are the only way to know if hydroxychloroquine is a safe and effective treatment for coronavirus — or perhaps for some categories of patients.
Usually prescribed as a treatment for lupus or as an anti-malarial, the drug acts to suppress the body’s immune system.
Researchers are suggesting it could have a positive effect on some patients but a negative one for others. That’s why many researchers are wary about Trump’s blanket advice that there is no harm in trying the drug.
There are many growing number of actual testimonials of people being cured by hydroxychloroquine and zpac. Keep pushing your toxic vaccines. The Great Awakening...
ReplyDeleteThe odd effort by the right wing? To talk about a drug that studies all over the world show that it cures people? That thousands of doctors prescribe it? This is an odd effort when you report these facts? It is the right wing's odd effort? You mean it is an odd effort by the right wing when you report true facts that are saving lives? What is odd about that?
ReplyDelete