Top French Doctor in Disciplinary Hearing for Using HCQ to Treat COVID
A prominent French infectious disease doctor on Friday faced a disciplinary hearing for his controversial recommendations on Covid-19 that won him global fame at the height of the pandemic.
Didier Raoult (pictured) championed the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus treatment at a time when the method was also being touted without evidence by former US Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro.
But while seen as a folk hero by some in the southern French city of Marseille, which prides itself on its independence from Parisian orthodoxy, he was also accused by peers of spreading false information about the benefits of the drug.
Raoult, 69, was present as the hearing presided over by the order of doctors in the southwestern Nouvelle-Aquitaine region got underway at a courthouse in the city of Bordeaux.
He gave no comment on arrival, acknowledging some thirty demonstrators who had come to support and applaud him.
“Raoult, our beacon in the night”, “Don’t touch our Raoult” were among the slogans banners testifying to the popularity of a doctor who prides himself on confronting establishment orthodoxy.
He stands accused of several breaches of the medical code of ethics related to the promotion of hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19 as non-validated treatment.
The disciplinary chamber, chaired by a magistrate, can decide on sanctions against the doctor ranging from a simple warning to a temporary suspension. It must deliver its ruling between 15 days and eight weeks after the hearing.
A familiar figure on French TV with his shoulder-length blond hair and grey beard, Raoult was also visited for advice by French President Emmanuel Macron in April 2020 as the pandemic was in full swing in a meeting that stunned many observers.
Raoult and his Marseille infectious diseases institute are also facing accusations at of carrying out allegedly illegal “clinical trials” against tuberculosis since 2017, claims which they deny.
Raoult must leave his job at the end of June at the latest due to retirement rules.
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MattH
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HCQ acts as an ionophore. An ionophore (from Greek ion and -phore, “ion carrier”) is a chemical species that reversibly binds ions. Many ionophores are lipid-soluble entities that transport ions across the cell membrane.
Googling ionophore on Wiki suggests HCQ will carry zinc ions across the membrane.
Google ‘zinc fingers’ and ‘vitamin D regulates T cells’ and one gains some basic understanding of the importance of therapeutics for natural immunity.
Thank you to Charles for his very important insights.
In New Zealand covid has finally got out of control and people who test positive are sent home without any therapeutic advice. Crimes against humanity repeat.
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Moffin
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Didier Raoult deserves more acknowledgement than being the victim of an immoral, incompetent, group think, corruption compromised medical establishment witch hunt.
There was a time people thought doctors were health professionals and the drug distributers realm was in the shadows, dealing out enhanced recreation, lives shattered and death.
When people exposed to the Wuhan vascular virus were sent home to battle alone the fight of life or death Dr. Raoult went the extra mile to explore and practice how best to provide victims a better chance of survival.
Bless Didier Raoult.
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jamesbbkk
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Trump and Bolsonaro were touting HCQ “without evidence” other than, you know, the statements and actions of this guy.
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