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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

CDC website drops guidance, anecdotal data on Trump-backed hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 treatment

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has abruptly switched its guidance for use of a drug touted by President Donald Trump as a possible treatment for COVID-19, dropping its reference to anecdotal dosages to say simply that there are no approved drugs for dealing with the disease.

The CDC's online advice for hydroxychloroquine was updated April 7, three days after Reuters reported that the CDC was offering what the news agency called "highly unusual guidance" for the drug's use based on "unattributed anecdotes rather than peer-reviewed science."

The updated, and shortened, guidance says simply that "hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are under investigation in clinical trials” for use on coronavirus patients and "there are no drugs or other therapeutics approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent or treat COVID-19."

The CDC originally told Reuters that the earlier guidance was crafted for doctors at the request of a White House coronavirus task force, which had urged prompt action.

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8 comments:

  1. It's literally been shown to be ineffective.

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  2. Very ironic the President is pushing a drug his family trust has high stakes in. A drug that has shown to be clinically ineffective at treating COVID19

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    1. 7:47 - The drug has been proven to be very effective in fighting the covid 19. I don't care if satan has high stakes in it, use it if it works !!!!

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    2. 7:47 Very ironic you didn’t do your research before you came on here spouting lies Einstein. That’s been proven false. 🙄

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  3. To be trusted, the CDC should promote only fact and science supported information.

    We may not like it, but in the long run it does the most good, and saves the most live. Anecdotal evidence should always be viewed extremely skeptically.

    If this medication turns out to work, that's great news... but to report that it does before a consensus and peer review can happen is foolish.

    Might as well tell people to indulge in homeopathy to cure Covid-19.

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  4. I would prefer to take a scientists or doctors advice thank you

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  5. If Trump likes it and it works, the media and it's puppet drs. will hate it. Give it to me if I get the virus. I trust Trump more than crooked,l left leaning scientists and doctors.

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