Dr. Oz urges Gov. Cuomo to lift his ban on malaria drugs to treat coronavirus
Dr. Mehmet Oz urged New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to reverse his executive order that bans doctors from prescribing the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to fight the Wuhan coronavirus.
Under Gov. Cuomo’s order, prescriptions of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are limited to a 14-day supply with no refills, and doctors cannot prescribe the drugs outside of FDA-approved uses or clinical trials.
Dr. Oz — a cardiothoracic surgeon — said Cuomo probably did that in order to prevent people from asking their doctors to casually prescribe the drugs so they can hoard it.
“I suspect there were concerns for the folks with rheumatoid arthritis and lupus who are dependent on chloroquine and couldn’t get it,” Oz told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “I think Cuomo passed that law to prevent people from taking it and putting it in their cupboards just in case.”
Dr. Oz said he believes that Americans will not try to hoard chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine if they don’t need it and urged Cuomo to reverse his ban.
“I have more confidence in Americans than that,” Oz said. “It’s an old malaria drug. We’ll have enough of it. We ought to lift the ban.”
(Source: Hannity)
The media has fomented panic about the malaria drugs after a Democrat supporter of Hillary Clinton drank chloroquine phosphate — a toxic chemical fish-tank cleaner — in a bid to prevent the coronavirus.
Naturally, the leftist blamed President Trump because she ingested a poison without reading the label that specifically warned that fish-tank cleaner is not for human consumption.
Woman who blamed Trump for drinking fish tank cleaner is a ‘prolific’ Dem donor who backed Hillary https://t.co/vnSyo8LCBp
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) March 31, 2020
Last weekend, the FDA approved an emergency authorization to allow coronavirus patients to be treated with the anti-malaria drugs, which were shown to be effective in a small French study and in several anecdotal cases.
“Many doctors are prescribing it,” Dr. Oz said. “Until we get randomized clinical data — which I’m hoping we’ll have over the next months — we are not going to know for sure. But there are centers all over the world in France and China who are researching this actively, as we are in America.”
In fact, some physicians say they take small doses of the drugs to prevent themselves from getting COVID-19 amid their constant exposure to coronavirus patients.
Hospitals hoard hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that cured coronavirus in French study https://t.co/sE4WKQTJ32 pic.twitter.com/vuizFVFRKK
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) March 22, 2020
Dr. Oz continued: “We probably have 100 reasonable candidates of solutions that could impact whether you can block the virus before it gets into your nose or block it from getting in the cells in your nose and your lungs or blocks it from replicating what’s in your cells or just stop the bad side effects that it causes. Any of those places we can attack it … and we will win. I’m confident about that.”
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richard
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Sorry if this has already been posted- “Professor John Oxford of Queen Mary University London, one of the world’s leading virologists and influenza specialists, comes to the following conclusion regarding Covid19: „Personally, I would say the best advice is to spend less time watching TV news which is sensational and not very good. Personally, I view this Covid outbreak as akin to a bad winter influenza epidemic. In this case we have had 8000 deaths this last year in the ‘at risk’ groups viz over 65% people with heart disease etc. I do not feel this current Covid will exceed this number. We are suffering from a media epidemic!“
John Oxford. John Oxford is the UK’s top expert on influenza and Emeritus Professor of Virology at the University of London.
The ARTE documentary „Profiteers of Fear“ from 2009 shows how the mainly privately financed WHO „upgraded“ a mild wave of influenza (the so-called „swine flu“) to a global pandemic so that vaccines worth several billion dollars could be sold to governments around the world. Some of the protagonists of that time are again prominently represented in the current situation
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NecktopPC
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And does the New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, have any valid reason as to why he had not banned Oxycontin?
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NecktopPC
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I’m not sure when the video with Dr. Oz done but it seems to me that they are ‘all over the ball park’ not no where near the ‘middle.’ They go from 2.2 million deaths, to 1.7 million deaths, to 100 thousand to 150 thousand (middle of the ball park) – and now he’s even betting that we can do even better through ‘social distancing and seriously separating yourselves from one another’ we could beat that 100 thousand number. And then Hannity plugs for BAYER. That’s when I clicked on stop.
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