”Well, I'm Upset" - Dr. Oz Vents After NY Governor Cuomo Shuts Down His Study on Hydr

"Well, I'm Upset" - Dr. Oz Vents After NY Governor Cuomo Shuts Down His Study on Hydroxychloroquine for Early Treatment of Coronavirus (VIDEO)


By Jim Hoft

Published April 6, 2020 at 5:08pm




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Dr. Mehmet Oz joined Lou Dobbs on Monday to discuss the latest on the coronavirus pandemic.


During their conversation Dr. Oz revealed that Governor Andrew Cuomo shut down his study to determine the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in the early treatment of the coronavirus.


And, Dr. Oz is not pleased with the governor’s actions.

Dr. Oz: Well the trial that I was helping with at my institution was shut down when the governor banned the use of hydroxychloroquine for prescription use for outpatients. And I was trying to see if it could prevent, well there was a prevention trial that was approved, but I was trying to see if it could actually treat early disease and replicate what has been done in China and in France. Unfortunately, those trials have been held back. I don’t know of a trial in New York State. I have been searching for the one that has been spoken about… I spoke this morning to the famous French Infectious Disease specialist Didier Raoult, he’s the one who’s actually been pioneering the hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin, it’s not published yet, but he shared the results of his first thousand patients who have been on that protocol. Seven people died. They were all older and frail individuals. That is lower than what you would expect from people who have been admitted to the hospital. And he’s had 20 got to the ICU, again lower than I would expect… Well, I’m upset because I wanted to do the trial. Also I wanted it to be legal in my state for a doctor to talk to a patient about the COVID-19 and treat them as they saw appropriate.

New York state leads the nation in coronavirus cases and deaths. New York state currently lists 4,758 COVID-19 deaths in the state which is almost half of all US deaths due to the virus.


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Dr. Oz also said he was “optimistic” that the coronavirus numbers will start dropping down later this week.


Via Lou Dobbs Tonight:

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I believe Dr. Fauci is in bed with Bill Gates and wants to make $$$$$$ off of a vaccine. I also think Fauci was on Bill Gates Board of Directors at some time in the past. I think Fauci is a MOLE and part of the deep state swamp. There are pictures of both of them!

I would like Fauci and Birk to step aside and Trump meet with several Doctors who are on the front line, in different Time Zones, to compare their cases and have a discussion what THEY see in their patients across the country. Not just NYC.


Round table meeting, NO rude fake news press, and then put the meeting on National TV.

Here's what you need to know about hydroxychloroquine

BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL - 04/06/20 06:29 PM EDT 2,346

There is no proven treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

But an old malaria medicine called hydroxychloroquine has made headlines as a potential key to treating the disease. President Trump has repeatedly highlighted the drug, touting hydroxychloroquine and a related drug called chloroquine as a possible “miracle.”

But why the sudden burst of attention? Has it been tested? What does the drug even do? And importantly, can it really help COVID-19 patients?

Here's what you need to know.

What is hydroxychloroquine?

Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, a related drug, are both used to treat malaria. Chloroquine was invented in 1934, and hydroxychloroquine was invented during World War II to provide an alternative with fewer side effects.

Chloroquine is sold under the brand name Aralen, while hydroxychloroquine is sold under the brand name Plaquenil. Both drugs are available as generics.

Both drugs have been used to treat the symptoms of lupus, an autoimmune disease. Hydroxychloroquine is also prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis.

According to the Johns Hopkins University Lupus Center, both anti-malarial medications have been shown to improve symptoms such as muscle and joint pain, skin rashes, inflammation of the heart and lung linings, fatigue, and fever.

Is hydroxychloroquine safe?

Trump said Sunday hydroxychloroquine can be used widely “because it’s been used for a long time and therefore it’s passed the safety test.”

But no drug is completely safe or without side effects. Hydroxychloroquine is more commonly prescribed because it is believed to cause fewer and less serious side effects than chloroquine. Still, side effects can include blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, cramps, headaches and diarrhea.

There has been evidence of retinal damage from hydroxychloroquine in some cases.

According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, only about 1 percent to 2 percent of patients develop retinal problems during a five-year course of treatment.

Prolonged use can also cause an interrupted heartbeat or a cardiac arrhythmia.

On March 25, the Mayo Clinic issued urgent guidance advising cardiac screenings of all patients who take hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.

Can hydroxychloroquine treat COVID-19?

This is where things get complicated. Right now, there is conflicting evidence, and there have been no randomized, controlled clinical trials.

“The small studies available to date suggesting that [the drugs] work have been flawed and are not conclusive. So the jury is out,” said Jesse Goodman, an attending physician and professor of medicine and infectious diseases at Georgetown University.

Both drugs have shown promise in the lab, and chloroquine was added to China’s formulary for treating COVID-19 in February, based on limited data.

A French study that tested the antibiotic azithromycin with hydroxychloroquine caught the eye of Trump, who has alluded to it from the White House podium. But the study tested only 24 people, and the science has been widely criticized.

Hospitals and doctors in the U.S. have been prescribing the drugs since the outbreak began, but there's been no evidence that shows it is working.

“If the drug combo is working its effect is probably subtle enough that only rigorous and large scale trials will tease it out,” former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wrote on Twitter.

New York is launching a sweeping trial starting Tuesday, but results will take months, if not longer.

But didn't the Trump administration approve the drug?

Not quite. The FDA issued an emergency-use authorization, which is a lower bar than full-on approval.

The agency will allow the emergency use of both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for patients already in the hospital for the coronavirus, instances when a clinical trial “is not available or feasible.”

In a fact sheet accompanying the authorization, FDA even acknowledged that “the optimal dosing and duration of treatment for COVID-19 is unknown.”

So what is the controversy?

Trump is pushing the benefits of an unproven drug, despite his top scientists continually expressing doubt about its effectiveness.

Many of the people who continually tout the drug include conservative talk show hosts and the administration’s top trade adviser, Peter Navarro.

Trump began hyping hydroxychloroquine in late March, shortly after it was first touted on Fox News.

Trump's enthusiasm for the drug has already caused widespread shortages and instances of hoarding.

The FDA added both hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to the its drug shortages list last week “due to a significant surge in demand.”

Prescriptions spiked almost 7,000 percent in March, and patients with lupus have reportedly had trouble refilling their prescriptions.

“While there is always room for hope, there is not a sound scientific basis for widespread enthusiasm about the drugs being used to treat covid at this time,” Georgetown's Goodman said. “There have been fatalities from misguided use of the drugs, and anyone considering them should consult their treating physician.”

The administration's top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, last month said Trump is trying to give people hope.

“The president is talking about hope for people. And it’s not an unreasonable thing to hope for people,” Fauci said at a White House briefing.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcar...oxychloroquine

Anthony Fauci

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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Incumbent
Assumed office November 2, 1984
President	Ronald Reagan George H.W. Bush Bill Clinton George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald Trump
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Born	Anthony Stephen Fauci December 24, 1940 (age 79) New York City, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Christine Grady (m. 1985)
Children	3
Education	College of the Holy Cross (BS) Cornell University (MD)
Awards	Maxwell Finland Award (1989) Ernst Jung Prize (1995) Lasker Award (2007) Medal of Freedom (2008) Robert Koch Prize (Gold, 2013)
Scientific career
Fields	Immunology
Institutions	National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Anthony Stephen Fauci ( /ˈfaʊtʃi/; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States.

As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States, he has served public health in various capacities for over fifty years. He has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAID at the NIH. The New York Times called Fauci "the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases".<sup>[1]

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Trump's not a doctor. He's only playing one on TV.
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Mar 23, 2020 - Trump's not a doctor. He's only playing one on TV. President Trump during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on Sunday.

Half of the US hydroxychloroquine supply has been abruptly cut off

Mexico runs out of malaria drugs over unfounded COVID-19 link
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Dr. Oz backs off aggressively pushing Trump-hyped drug on Fox & Friends after study shows it might be a bust

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April 22, 2020
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Brad Reed

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For the past few weeks, television doctor Mehmet Oz has been going on Fox News to aggressively promote treating people infected with COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that was singled out by President Donald Trump during his press briefings.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, however, Oz backed off his promotion of the drug and suggested more testing was needed to conclude whether it was effective in treating COVID-19.

“The fact of the matter is, we don’t know,” Oz said.

“Thankfully, these medications are prescription only, so doctors are desperately awaiting the completion of the higher-quality randomized trials… we are better off waiting for the randomized trials Dr. Fauci has been asking for.”

As Media Matters researcher Matt Gertz notes, this is an “astonishing turnaround” for Oz, who just days earlier was asking Fox News viewers to take part in a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in which they would be sent pills in the mail and asked to report how well they responded to it.

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CNN’s Oliver Darcy reports that Fox News in recent days has “all but stopped” mentioning hydroxychloroquine after promoting it as a treatment literally hundreds of times over the last month.

“The quite abandonment of hydroxychloroquine comes as studies indicate it is not an effective treatment against the coronavirus,” Darcy reports. “A French study found last week that the drug does not help patients with the virus. And on Tuesday, a study of hundreds of patents at US Veterans Health Administration medical centers found that patients who took hydroxychloroquine were no less likely to need ventilation and had higher death rates than those who didn’t take the drug.”

Watch the video below.

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Dr. Oz, on Fox & Friends, says the VA study on hydroxychloroquine shows that "we don't know" if it works and "we are better off waiting for the randomized trials Dr. Fauci has been asking for."

Just an astonishing turnaround for a network that has been aggressively promoting it.

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