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White House trade adviser Peter Navarro defied scientific evidence Wednesday with his continued defense of hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for Covid-19.
But he declined to address President Donald Trumps praise for a Houston-area physician who falsely touted the antimalarial medication as a coronavirus cure and has promoted other conspiracy theories related to alien DNA and demon sperm.
In an interview on CNN, Navarro argued there are two gigantic sides to the hydroxychloroquine debate despite the Food and Drug Administrations recent decision to withdraw its emergency-use authorization for the drug and the results of at least three new studies showing it is not helpful to Covid-19 patients.
Navarro, who is assisting with the administrations coronavirus vaccine development efforts and coordination of the supply chain for personal protective equipment, has clashed repeatedly with public health officials including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the countrys top infectious disease expert, over the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine since the early days of the pandemic.
Im pleading with you and the American people to look at this drug again, Navarro said. Because I literally have tens of millions of tablets sitting in the Strategic National Stockpile that if we were allowed under the doctors advice to get this stuff to people at the first sign of their symptoms I guarantee you it would cut the amount of time of the symptoms, reduce the duration of the symptoms and save lives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flouting-scientific-evidence-white-house-trade-adviser-defends-debunked-covid-treatment/ar-BB17kslV?li=BBnb7Kz
Does this asshole own stock in the company?
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)The wouldn't look like such damn fools.
They don't even have to admit they were wrong. Just stop talking about it. They must be miserable spouses.
Moostache
(9,897 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)See if theyll take it
Arkansas Granny
(31,544 posts)Why else would they continue to push a drug that has been proven ineffective at best and harmful to some.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'm guessing those pills are getting close to their expiration date, and the big investment is about to be wasted. Although considering the ethical standards of this administration, I can't really see them having any qualms about peddling expired medications.
ProfessorGAC
(65,459 posts)The ten million doses this idiot is talking about is what they have, plus inventory safety stock.
I doubt that this drug has a scientifically valid expiration, though.
Quinine derivatives have incredibly slow rates of entropy.
While the law might say pharmaceuticals must have an expiration date, the chemistry of these compounds would suggest efficacy for decades, if not centuries.
That is an amazingly stable structure. Only the ether linkage is particularly susceptible to attack by oxidation.
The ring structure needs something very, very electronegative to add or substitute or highly aggressive conditions.
If it worked, I would take it if it was 100 years old!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I wondered about the expiration date, but the websites I found only gave the usual warning of not taking drugs that had passed their expiration (or expiry, if you're Australian) date. They didn't specify how long HCQ tablets were good for.
Of course, considering the cumulative brainpower of this administration, they may have taken the pills out of their sealed containers and put them out in bowls like grandmas put out ribbon candy.
ProfessorGAC
(65,459 posts)They added bleach, disinfectants, and hit it with uV light to make it more better.
Then everything I wrote is useless!
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)It's absolutely bizarre.
LiberalFighter
(51,393 posts)tanyev
(42,688 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)Not a single experiment has found hydroxychloride useful. The studies finding it useful are all only correlational reports. The rooster crows and then the sun rises. Every single study finding the drug useful has that structure. And two big experiments, involving patients in several countries, found it completely useless for covid. Those studies randomly assigned the drug to some patients, but not others. With neither patients nor health care workers told which patients got the drug. That kind of study is called an experiment and the experimental method has been proven effective for hundreds of years. That Dr Navarro does not understand why experiments are better guides to truth than mere observations is shocking.
crickets
(25,993 posts)Translation: Dumb donnie literally bought up tens of millions of doses of this drug to sell back to you, hoping he'd cornered the market on a quick fix. C'mon, beg us to let you buy it! (Even though your tax money paid for it in the first place...)