re: This is why Fauci pushed Remdesivir

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So maybe now is a good time to quit posting like you are. Thanks and have a pleasant evening.

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Let me get this right. I'm the one who conceded that I'm not an expert and therefore am willing to defer to those who are. And you're the one who is saying that you know better than the WHO/CDC/FDA whatever their faults even though you have absolutely no expertise whatsoever. Yet somehow I'm who posting as if I'm an expert? Funny how that works.

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Critically reading medical journals is part of my job for over 2 decades. I read the article the day it was published online, in the conclusions the author presented "potential" issues. I knew it was bull shite.

Then letters from others poured in. Two days later the article was pulled. What does that tell you?

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I have not referenced anything other than the letter the FDA published revoking emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid as they had concluded it had both safety and efficacy issues. I have no reason to believe I know more than they do on this subject, so I'm deferring to their expertise. If you think you know better than them, fine, free country and all. Encouraging the practice of evidence-based medicine is part of my job.

Anyhow, it's still backward for you to suggest that I'm holding myself out as an expert when it's you who is substituting your knowledge for people who have more experience, expertise, access to information, and skin in the game. But again, free country, right?

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I have not referenced anything other than the letter the FDA published revoking emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid as they had concluded it had both safety and efficacy issues.

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In decades of widespread use, HCQ has an impressive safety record. Irregular heart rhythm or damage to the retina occur rarely, usually with high doses used long term. FDA shows only 62 cardiac deaths attributed to HCQ out of more than 50 million prescriptions, or 0.000124 percent (1.2 out of each 1 million Rx). Rheumatology guidelines for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis do not even require baseline electrocardiograms before prescribing HCQ, since the risk is minimal.

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Hmmmmmm, now what could make the FDA radically change their conclusions? I mean, for 70 years of observations to be summarily dismissed, only to suddenly promote “safety concerns,” it’s a head scratcher. Either the FDA had it wrong for SEVEN DECADES, or they are intentionally manufacturing and / or manipulating data. Either way, it is tantamount to either gross ineptitude, or corruption. Both of these are TERRIBLE options for citizens concerning trust in the FDA.

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IMO, regn-cov2 will put this stuff to bed by summer's end

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Not to get all conspiracy theorist here but recently the founder and chief science officer of that company got "cancelled" by remarks he have at a highschool graduation ceremony. Why would someone of that stature be giving a speech at a highschool graduation ceremony?

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I have not referenced anything other than the letter the FDA published revoking emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid as they had concluded it had both safety and efficacy issues

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You left out “under a hospital setting” just like fake news did on purpose. Is still recommended under doctors’ supervision and doctors are still prescribing HCQ.

In regards to the FDA, you posted:

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I have no reason to believe I know more than they do

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Maybe you should start paying attention to the FDA and some of their approval processes. If you do not you had best never bitch about the price of the meds you and yours have to pay. Go ahead and cheer for big Pharma and their practices.

As I posted previously, I have had a professional interest in this for a long time. I used to love reading about new drug developments. Then I became responsible for drug budgets in several hospitals. Then companies began putting out a bunch of "me too" drugs. Those are drugs in the same class that offer minimal if any benefits and carry greater cost. The studies went from showing superiority to "noninferiority". Guess you support that mentality too? Or are you simply another hypocrite from the left.

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The frick are you doing bringing facts and logic you stinking liburl!

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He hasn’t posted a single fact. Go cry about Trump somewhere else.

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To be fair, one of them works and the other one definitely doesn't so there's that. Anyhow, $3,120 as a non-negotiated charge before the payers' discount is not so bad or rather it could be much worse.

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Then please explain how my good friend, CV+, is on the mend with a HCQ/Az cocktail. Must be an odd coincidence.

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You left out “under a hospital setting” just like fake news did on purpose.

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The FDA letter only referenced outpatients treated with hydroxychloroquine one time and that was to say:

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numerous clinical trials have
been in progress studying treatment of outpatients with COVID-19 or use of HCQ or CQ for preor post-exposure prophylaxis. One such trial conducted under U.S. IND recently published results showing no significant difference in development of symptomatic illness compatible with COVID-19 between HCQ and placebo recipients for post-exposure prophylaxis, though with
limitations that outcomes were largely self-reported with little opportunity for laboratory
confirmation.

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All I know was that all the docs in NY gave this drug out like candy in April when we didn't know for sure if it worked, but it was worth the risk to try. But now that we know it doesn't do anything, they no longer prescribe for COVID patients.

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Is still recommended under doctors’ supervision and doctors are still prescribing HCQ.

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To my knowledge, it was never recommended. And indeed I'm not sure the mechanism that it could have been recommend. It was just permitted. Who actually recommending this drug and when?