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Trump Derangement Syndrome: Was Hydroxychloroquine unfairly discredited?
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The mainstream media is just getting around to admitting COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Reporters have since confessed they dismissed the theory early on because former President Donald J. Trump entertained it.
The same maybe said for hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), after which Mr. Trump spoke of its promise last year, was turned into a political piranha that was quickly dismissed and discredited all without a proper scientific investigation into its effectiveness.
In April 2020, a small French study showed HCQ combined with azithromycin, an antibiotic, was safe and effective in lowering COVID-19’s virus count in patients who had first contracted the disease. Mr. Trump immediately cited the study as it was good news the world was at the height of the pandemic and HCQ had been approved and used by physicians for 85 years to tre
The mainstream media is just getting around to admitting COVID-19 may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Reporters have since confessed they dismissed the theory early on because former President Donald J. Trump entertained it.
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The state was investigating 991 outbreaks and “broad community spread,” Khaldun said. It was a week of horrid numbers, with Michigan leading the nation in new infections, hospitalizations and the percentage of people testing positive for the coronavirus.
“What s concerning,” Spectrum Chief Operating Officer Brian Brasser said in an interview, is “that our trajectory looks very, very similar to what it did in the first part of October.”
Which is why Spectrum was among those canceling some procedures.
“Any time we make a decision to defer procedures like this, it comes not lightly because we recognize that the risk that is associated with deferred care,” Brasser told the Free Press. “But we also need to make sure that we re providing good, safe and effective care and we recognize that with the spike of COVID inpatient activity and just a general high census overall, it was important for us to do that.”