OK, so let's get into the hydroxy conversation.
You might have noticed that for the last week or so, Donald Trump and Fox News have very
abruptly stopped talking about hydroxy chloroquine, chloroquine, the medication that both Trump
and Fox and some others in right wing media have been promoting for weeks.
As if it's a miracle cure for Corona virus.
And the reason they've stopped talking about it mostly is that more and more papers are
being published almost daily that show that not only does hydroxy chloroquine not appear
to be effective in treating coronavirus both with and without a zero myson, the zie pack,
as Trump likes to say, it might actually be causing more death.
Now, I want to be ultra crystal clear here.
If you watch this program, if you listen to my podcast, if you
know me at all, you know I am willing to accept anything that works for Corona virus.
I dont care if Trump was the first one to mention it.
I dont care if a banka herself synthesizes the treatment or cure.
Personally, I want to treat people with therapeutics, a vaccine, whatever works.
As soon as humanly and safely possible.
I'm putting all politics aside because that's the most important thing.
But from day one, Trump and Fox were going crazy promoting chloroquine as if it were
a miracle cure before we really knew that much about it.
Now I also want to remind you that it wasn't wrong to hope chloroquine could work.
We talked about chloroquine before Trump ever mentioned it.
I don't know if it was five days before 7 days, nine days, something like that.
I told you about chloroquine with us to throw myson without
it.
What what we did, though, is I came to you and I said, here's a bunch of stuff that is
being looked at.
We're looking at chloroquine with and without as it throw myson, we're looking at Rum Desert
Vier made by Gilliard.
We're looking at for VVIP of there, which is also called AB.
Again, that's a Japanese drug.
We're looking at a combination of two anti HIV drugs.
There are studies being done about could the tuberculosis vaccine or the polio vaccine
work not as a vaccine, but to trigger the.
Type of immune response that might prevent someone or make it less likely that someone
gets infected with Koven 19 in the first place.
I mentioned to you dozens of things that were being considered and that we should look at
scientifically, soberly, without becoming emotionally attached to anyone in particular.
But for weeks, Trump and
HANNITY and Fox were going crazy about chloroquine.
Remember this?
Here's HANNITY talking about.
This is so irresponsible prophylactic use of chloroquine with other things.
Mr. Vise, president, I'm holding up a letter and I'm going to read from it in a second
from a doctor, then New York area.
And if I may read from it.
He has now worked with his his associates and he has a regimen hydroxy chloroquine,
200 milligrams twice a day, five days, a zero myosin, 500 milligrams once a day, five days,
zinc sulfate, 220 milligrams once a day for five days.
This is what he has seen.
Him and his team of now treated approximately 350 patients and Kyra's chosen area of New
York.
Those hit particularly hard and another hundred and fifty patients in other New York areas.
His results, we have had zero deaths, zero hospitalizations, zero intubation.
Then, of course, Trump himself pushing this wildly.
And I hope they use the hydroxy chloroquine and they can also do it with zulfacar subject
to a doctor's approval and all of that, but I hope they use it because I'll tell you what.
What do you have to lose?
In some cases, they're in bad shape.
What do you have to lose except possibly your life?
And I could play dozens of examples of Trump saying this stuff.
I won't do it today.
Imagine that you just sat through 20 examples of that because they are out there.
Here's a doctor telling the blazes, Glenn Beck, that the only reason people are questioning
the efficacy of chloroquine is because Trump is pushing it.
Of course, that's not true.
Here's a drug that's been around literally for ever.
Hydroxy chloroquine.
And it is being treated like a pariah.
It.
Do you believe that this is happening because Donald Trump was behind it?
Absolut, I mentioned it.
That is the reason.
I absolutely think that's the reason I think that that's why people are.
I have been attacked when I've treated patients with this and we've seen improvement in the
patients.
Well, you might have noticed that neither Trump nor Fox have been mentioning chloroquine
very much unless someone else brings it up.
And it's because many studies are finding there's a really big risk to taking the drug.
There's a new V.A. study of three hundred and sixty eight or 386 male veterans.
And it found that 28 percent of those Gallivan given chloroquine died, whereas only 11 percent
of those who received the standard of care without chloroquine died.
It's not definitive, but it doesn't look particularly good.
It's not a perfect study.
There's another study from Brazil with similarly concerning findings.
Other studies are also finding that there seems to be no measurable positive effect
from chloroquine.
And there are people having serious heart issues.
It's being tested both alone and with a zero myson when Trump was promoting it.
You saw Fox News promoting it constantly.
Everyone
has gone almost completely silent with one exception from this morning, which I will
get to in a little bit.
So during week 1 of April, Fox News mentioned chloroquine.
One hundred and ninety four times in the second week of April, Fox mentioned chloroquine.
One hundred and thirty eight times.
It declined a little bit.
In the third week of April, Fox mentioned chloroquine 51 times.
And this week it is very, very few.
Now, you might say, you know, it looked promising before.
So they mentioned it.
Now it's not looking as good.
So they're not talking about it as much.
So everything's fine.
That's not really the issue, though.
The issue is that they were touting it before, even with Hanadi saying it could be taken
prophylactically when there was really no more reason to push chloroquine than AV again
or Ramdas of year or whatever else
other, then Trump was promoting it like a miracle cure.
Now they're not really correcting the record.
They're simply pretending it never happened.
The right thing to do.
The responsible thing to have done all along would have been never touted as a miracle
cure from the beginning.
Report on it as one of many treatments that's being explored.
And now you can continue to report on it and say we have all these studies now that say
it's not working particularly well.
Report properly about this stuff without the wild emotional propagandistic attachment.
Tomorrow's briefing, it wouldn't shock me to see trumpet, let chloroquine listen.
I know I'm not a doctor, whatever it's called hydroxy.
What was that?
That's a nasty question.
And you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Now they move on to the next round of disinformation and it's mostly about text testing.
Moving on from chloroquine
altogether.
Now, there was one notable clip about chloroquine this morning on Fox News.
And that's what I want to talk about next