Thread by @gregggonsalves, Here is latest data on #Hydroxychloroquine. #AnthonyFauci is right, we have little [...]

Here is latest data on #Hydroxychloroquine. #AnthonyFauci is right, we have little data now to support its use. The idea that #PeterNavarro thinks otherwise, has ear of @realDonaldTrump should frighten you. It means science doesn't matter @WhiteHouse. 1/ https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764199/use-hydroxychloroquine-chloroquine-during-covid-19-pandemic-what-every-clinician

If you don't believe @AnnalsofIM, European regulators too are dubious about #Hydroxychloroquine & won't approve it. Why? Because again, the data simply isn't there. Difference? EMA isn't subject to political pressure from out-of-control @POTUS who doesn't believe in science. 2/

Here's @FiercePharma report on EMA decisions: https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/europe-locks-down-chloroquine-scripts-as-researchers-china-report-positive-controlled-covid

Unlike FDA, European regulators refuse to clear chloroquine for COVID-19 without data

In the quest to treat COVID-19, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have drawn more attention than any other drugs. But while the FDA issued an emergency green light for their use against coronavirus,...

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/europe-locks-down-chloroquine-scripts-as-researchers-china-report-positive-controlled-covid

And @hiltzikm article @latimes is required reading on anyone who wants to know how this drug is getting hyped, by whom, the shady dealings going on and the real harm to patients with #lupus and other diseases who need this drug. 3/ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-01/trump-chloroquine-coronavirus-bad-science-hiltzik-column

Column: The bad science behind Trump's chloroquine claims

President Trump's hype of a potential treatment for COVID-19 gives false hope to virus patients and causes real harm to others.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-01/trump-chloroquine-coronavirus-bad-science-hiltzik-column

And for all the pundits, reporters who think the difference of opinion simply represents "fault lines" @WhiteHouse, another both-sides story, the shady science, policy-by-bullying has real impact on real lives. 4/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/opinions/hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-and-lupus-fear-martin/index.html

Lupus survivor: Crucial drug can't be snatched away

Now that the FDA has issued emergency use authorization for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat patients hospitalized with Covid-19, patients like Cory Martin, who already need hydroxychlor...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/31/opinions/hydroxychloroquine-covid-19-and-lupus-fear-martin/index.html

All this speaks to a @WhiteHouse run by incompetents, ideologues, magical thinkers. It means the fight against #coronavirus, our fate, rests with these men who make shit up, tell lies, and couldn't organize their way out of a paper bag. end/

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