Hydroxychloroquine has a long history of use for the prevention of malaria. It has been considered to be a very safe drug for several decades.
The “off label” policy of the FDA allows doctors to prescribe medications for any condition, as they see fit. An approved drug does not need additional approvals for a doctor to choose to use it for another purpose that was not part of the initial application for approval. Additional conditions for which a drug has been found to work may be added to the label information later, but doctors are able to prescribe for those conditions at any time after the drug’s initial approval. Once approved, the drug is legally available for any use.
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https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=overview.process&ApplNo=009768.
Food & Drug Administration. - April 18, 2019. US Food & Drug Administration. “Understanding Unapproved Use of Approved Drugs ‘Off Label.’”
https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and-other-treatment-options/understanding-unapproved-use-approved-drugs-label.
Food & Drug Administration. - Drugs.Com. “Hydroxychloroquine Uses, Dosage & Side Effects.”
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This article explores chloroquine use for prophylactic prevention of SARS as well as for treatment and prevention of spread. The testing was done with chloroquine (CQ) on cell cultures. Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a variant of CQ. COVID-19 is a SARS-like illness.
This article is in the NIH database. Thus we see that a potential treatment for COVID-19 was already known at the time SARS-CoV-2 was released.
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- August 22, 2005. Martin J. Vincent, Eric Bergeron, Suzanne Benjannet, Bobbie R. Erickson, Pierre E. Rollin, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Nabil G. Seidah, and Stuart T. Nichol. “Chloroquine Is a Potent Inhibitor of SARS Coronavirus Infection and Spread.” Virology Journal 2 (1): 69.
https://doi.org/10.1186/1743-422X-2-69.
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]]>Full peer-reviewed study has been released by Didier Raoult MD, PhD. After 6 days 100% of patients treated with HCQ + Azithromycin were virologically cured.
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- March 19, 2020. Hank Berrien. “French Peer-Reviewed Study: Our Treatment Cured 100% Of Coronavirus Patients.” The Daily Wire.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-peer-reviewed-study-our-treatment-cured-100-of-coronavirus-patients.
News. - March 18, 2020. Philippe Gautreta, Jean-Christophe Lagiera, Philippe Parolaa, Van Thuan Hoanga, Line Meddeba, Morgane Mailhea, Barbara Doudiera, et al. “Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin as a Treatment of COVID-19: Results of an Open-Label Non-Randomized Clinical Trial.” Google Docs.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/186Bel9RqfsmEx55FDum4xY_IlWSHnGbj/view?usp=embed_facebook.
Research Journal, PDF.
According to Dr. Zelenko, he had spoken to Pres. Trump about his clinical work and protocol prior to this tweet. It would be about this time that Pres. Trump ordered that HCQ be made available to the public for prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Instead, those in the health agencies sought to circumvent this order by making it illegal to prescribe HCQ for COVID-19.
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- March 21, 2020. Joseph Curl. “Trump Says These Two Drugs Could Be ‘Game Changer’ In Fight Against Virus.” The Daily Wire.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-these-two-drugs-could-be-game-changer-in-fight-against-virus.
News. - July 9, 2021. Claire Chretien [LifeSiteNews]. Dr. Zelenko: “Life Saving Information…Is Being Criminally Suppressed” by Big Pharma. Runtime: 17:00.
https://rumble.com/vjnael-dr.-zelenko-life-saving-information…is-being-criminally-suppressed-by-big.html.
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]]>- March 27, 2020. Pepe Escobar. “Why France Is Hiding a Cheap, Tested Virus Cure.” Asia Times.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/why-france-is-hiding-a-cheap-and-tested-virus-cure/.
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- April 6, 2020. Katie Pavlich. “Thousands of Doctors: Yes, Hydroxychloroquine Works Against Wuhan Coronavirus.” Townhall.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/04/06/here-are-five-doctors-whose-patients-have-seen-recovery-with-hydroxy-chloroquine-n2566409.
News. - April 2, 2020. Niki Franklin. “Largest Statistically Significant Study by 6,200 Multi-Country Physicians on COVID-19 Uncovers Treatment Patterns and Puts Pandemic in Context.” Sermo.
https://www.sermo.com/press-releases/largest-statistically-significant-study-by-6200-multi-country-physicians-on-covid-19-uncovers-treatment-patterns-and-puts-pandemic-in-context/.
Research Journal.
Named after the Latin word for conversation, Sermo was built by physicians, for physicians to connect the global medical community.
- April 6, 2020. Solange Reyner. “AMA President on Trump’s HCQ Pitch: ‘You Could Lose Your Life.’” Newsmax. Runtime of embedded video: 1:52.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hydroxychloroquine-hcq-american-medical/2020/04/06/id/961629/.
News, Video. - April 9, 2020. “AMA Prefers Death to Treating without Data, States the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).” Yahoo! News.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200412113905/https://news.yahoo.com/ama-prefers-death-treating-without-154500445.html.
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Prophylactic use means use for the purpose of prevention.
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- April 29, 2020. “Where’s the Evidence on COVID-19 Treatment?” AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
https://aapsonline.org/evidence-hydroxychloroquine/.
Doctor Organization.
According to Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, the New York doctor who pioneered the use of Hydroxychloroquine and zinc to treat the coronavirus shares shocking statements of how Big Pharma is suppressing life-saving treatment, this journal article was created expressly for the purpose of defying and subverting Pres. Trump’s order to make HCQ available to all American citizens.
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- May 1, 2020. Mandeep R. Mehra, Sapan S. Desai, SreyRam Kuy, Timothy D. Henry, and Amit N. Patel. “Cardiovascular Disease, Drug Therapy, and Mortality in Covid-19.” The New England Journal of Medicine.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2007621.
Research Journal, Hoax. - July 9, 2021. Claire Chretien [LifeSiteNews]. Dr. Zelenko: “Life Saving Information…Is Being Criminally Suppressed” by Big Pharma. Runtime: 17:00.
https://rumble.com/vjnael-dr.-zelenko-life-saving-information…is-being-criminally-suppressed-by-big.html.
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The AAPS filed a lawsuit, AAPS v. FDA, against the Food and Drug Administration to end its arbitrary interference with the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), which several world leaders have taken as a prophylaxis against COVID-19. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The article includes PDFs of the court filings.
Source:
- June 21, 2021. “AAPS Sues the FDA to End Its Arbitrary Restrictions on Hydroxychloroquine.” AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
https://aapsonline.org/hcqsuit/.
Doctor Organization.
One of the requirements for issuing an Emergency Use Authorization for a drug is that no other treatment be available. Not only was the use of CQ and HCQ not explored by the NIH or CDC during the initial phases of the COVID-19 outbreak; but, as we shall see, manipulated and fake research was created to motivate the blocking of its use. The media echoed these fake results to make them widely known. “Wrap Up” Smear tactics were used on HCQ. The prescribing of HCQ for COVID-19 was banned by governors in some states. Furthermore, during hearings for the vaccine Emergency Use Authorizations, the testimonies of doctors in the field who were successfully using HCQ-based protocols went ignored. Had the HCQ-based protocols been recognized as a viable treatment option, the Emergency Use Authorizations should never have been issued.