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    FDA pulls emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine

    The Food and Drug Administration has rescinded authorizations for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, promoted by President Trump as coronavirus treatments, as evidence begins to show the drugs may be harmful.

    "We now believe that the suggested dosing regimens for [ hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine] as detailed in the Fact Sheets are unlikely to produce an antiviral effect," FDA Chief Scientist Denise Hinton said Monday.

    The FDA was responding to a request to revoke emergency use authorization for the drugs from Gary Disbrow, acting director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the government agency tasked with finding COVID-19 treatments.

    The FDA decided that, amid mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective antiviral treatment, the drugs, generally used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, can only be administered in clinical trials. However, because the drugs are approved to treat other conditions, doctors are still able to prescribe the drugs "off label" to treat COVID-19.
    FDA pulls emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, the drug touted by Trump as COVID-19 remedy

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    It could be interpreted like this :

    "The pandemic didn't hit the US as hard as we feared that it would so now we're going to keep a tighter rein on treatments because we can afford to do so"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    It could be interpreted like this :

    "The pandemic didn't hit the US as hard as we feared that it would so now we're going to keep a tighter rein on treatments because we can afford to do so"
    The interpretation is: We want you dead.

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    If the current US death toll had been 10,000 per day and rising then I think they would have done something else. At 100,000 per day, probably a lot of things. Desperation changes things from political and scientific correctness over towards bold action.

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