Remember... (Updated)

...when Trump was being vilified (and Cuomo was ignored) for suggesting that Chloroquine might be effective in fighting the Wuhan virus?  Remember when Trump was blamed for a couple of people who decided to skip all the consulting a physician nonsense and self medicate with fish tank cleaner?  Well, it looks like science is catching up with Trump and Cuomo.

A French Dr is having virtually a 100% success rate with Chloroquine.

https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-researcher-in-Marseille-posts-successful-Covid-19-coronavirus-drug-trial-results

Novartis is preparing to donate 130,000,000 doses and Reuters reports the following.

"Novartis Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan said his Sandoz generics unit’s malaria, lupus and arthritis drug hydroxychloroquine is the company’s biggest hope against the coronavirus, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported on SundayNovartis has pledged to donate 130 million doses and is supporting clinical trials needed before the medicine, which U.S. President Donald Trump also has been promoting, can be approved for use against the coronavirus.

“Pre-clinical studies in animals as well as the first data from clinical studies show that hydroxychloroquine kills the coronavirus,” Narasimhan told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung."

The French are on board as well.

“The French government has officially sanctioned prescriptions of chloroquine to treat certain coronavirus patients,” France 24 English reported Saturday.
“This ensures continued treatment of patients who have been treated for several years for a chronic condition with this drug, but also allows a temporary authorization to allow certain patients with coronavirus to benefit from this therapeutic route,” said Jérôme Salomon, France’s director general of health.
According to a report from Trustnodes, France’s move comes after infectious disease specialist Didier Raoult announced new clinical results… that show 78 out of 80 patients treated with chloroquine recovered within five days."

Oh, look the FDA...

"On Sunday night, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs often used to treat malaria and recently touted by President Donald Trump as a possible “game-changer” in the fight against the China-originated novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.
The United States Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced in a statement on Sunday that the FDA will allow the drugs to be “donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible,” a Politico report said.
The statement noted that “Sandoz donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile and Bayer donated 1 million doses of chloroquine.”
Trump made it clear weeks ago that his administration would work to fast-track promising drugs like hydroxychloroquine with the FDA, all in an effort to combat COVID-19."

 Back to Cuomo

" Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is on the same page as President Trump when it comes to the popular anti-malaria drugs, permitting trials of hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine, and azithromycin to commence in his state.  “Let’s see how it works,” Trump said Sunday, with regard to the New York trials. “It may. It may not.”



The New York Post reports:

"Two coronavirus patients in New York City are off ventilators and out of intensive care after they received an experimental drug to treat HIV and breast cancer.
[…]The drug, leronlimab, is delivered by injection twice in the abdomen, the Daily Mail reported.
Of seven critically ill patients who received the drug in New York, two were removed from ventilators and two showed significant improvement.
[…]CytoDyn, the drug’s manufacturer, could get FDA approval in six weeks if leronlimab continues to show promise. No drugs currently have FDA approval to treat the novel coronavirus."

So, will be be hearing or seeing all the folks who said Trump had blood on his hands retracting and apologizing?   Will we see the acknowledgement that Trump is following the advice of doctors and scientists and that by cutting the FDA red tape might actually lead to lives saved?   Will we see all the people decrying Trump's comments about being open by Easter, admit that they were wrong?  (Remember, they weren't criticizing the timeline, they were criticizing him for not following the advice of experts)  FYI, I personally think the new deadline is too much and am hoping that he'll be willing to pull it back if circumstances warrant. 

I think I know the answers to these questions, and I hope I'm wrong.  I really hope that the media gets away from pushing a narrative, starts reporting the news, and admits that they were wrong.



It's easier to post the one link to WK's post, which contains multiple links to sources for this, so here it goes.


 https://winteryknight.com/2020/04/07/so-much-good-news-in-the-battle-against-the-chinese-wuhan-virus/


Here is my question.   If Chloroquine and/or Zithromax have any prophylactic effect at all, wouldn't it be cheaper to prescribe a course to everyone in the country and start lifting all the quarantine restrictions?