As of recent, the mere mention of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has attracted a substantial amount of controversy in the media. On March 17, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci's counterpart in France, Dr. Didier Raoult, M.D., Ph.D., published a video in French claiming his clinical trial of over 1,000 patients suggested treating COVID-19 patients with Hydroxychloroquine-Azithromycin (HCQ-AZ) had significantly positive results. (See International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents).
On March 21, 2020, President Donald J. Trump ran with Dr. Raoult's findings to Twitter to announce:
"HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains - Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents) be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE!" (See @realDonaldTrump).
With the combination of President Trump's tweet and a Phoenix, Arizona couple hospitalized with the husband dying from ingesting chloroquine phosphate, this created a media firestorm. The media immediately claimed chloroquine (CQ) as dangerous without so much as identifying whether the couple consulted a physician before use, they failed to host any licensed physician as to whether the couple consumed more than needed and/or whether they used the appropriate compound.
Ever since the President's March tweet, social media giants Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have been actively working in a concerted effort to ban and suspend user accounts from sharing "medical misinformation" on HCQ when it had been approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for medical use and prescribed by licensed medical doctors since 1955 as a treatment for patients with malaria, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. Suddenly, the FDA removed HCQ as an authorized form of emergency treatment on patients outside of the hospital setting and outside of clinical trials.
On August 22, 2005, medical findings were published citing CQ as a "potent inhibitor" of SARS-CoV-1, a virus with 78% similarity to today's SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19. These medical doctors concluded:
"Chloroquine, a relatively safe, effective and cheap drug used for treating many human diseases including malaria, amoebiosis and human immunodeficiency virus is effective in inhibiting the infection and spread of SARS CoV in cell culture. The fact that the drug has significant inhibitory antiviral effect when the susceptible cells were treated either prior to or after infection suggests a possible prophylactic [or cure] and therapeutic use." (See PMC1232869).
This proves medical research into CQ's treatment of SARS-CoV-1 to prevent the spread of the 2002 Coronavirus has been ongoing and any expression to the contrary is categorically and patently, false. So, what is the difference with HCQ? HCQ is simply a tablet form of CQ.
On April 17, 2020, Brazilian Dr. Rodrigo Barbosa Esper, M.D., Ph.D., published medical findings by his team in treating COVID-19 patients with HCQ-AZ and the significantly positive results they experienced.
On July 2, 2020, the Henry Ford Health System published an article citing a reduction in COVID-19 deaths by at least 50% overall with the use of HCQ in patients and screening them for heart conditions prior to its use in trial. Their medical findings were published this date August 1, 2020, at the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Anthony Fauci, M.D., whom has never treated a single coronavirus patient in his career, disputes these recent findings as 'flawed,' however, he has spent his career at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) where the findings from the August 2005 article above were published and he failed to dispute those results then.
On July 26, 2020, Yale University Epidemiologist Dr. Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., cited his findings of the treatment of COVID-19 with HCQ as "the key to defeating COVID-19" and publicly expressed his disappointment, as this treatment has gained more attention by its political opponents than by medical and scientific research.
On July 27, 2020, a video published by Breitbart went viral of Dr. Simone Gold, J.D., M.D., with several other licensed physicians sharing their medical findings on the treatment of COVID-19 with HCQ in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. (See Transcript). Dr. Gold's employment has since been terminated by her employer for the video.
On July 31, 2020, Dr. Dareld Morris, D.O., was published on amateur video telling the world that in his career with prescribing HCQ to a multitude of patients over the past 20 years it was never an issue in treating diseases until President Trump mentioned it.
As social media platforms continue to censor licensed physicians and corporate media continues to lambast medical experts from around the world for announcing their trial results of HCQ on COVID-19 patients, we must ask why such a level of opposition, upset and outright falsehoods?
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