President Takes Anti Malarial - Is Dettol Next?

[Peter Pedant]

The President cleared the room when he admitted taking hydroxychloroquine.
He had also found a doctor to prescribe it

and MY question is : if a relative did that and died - would you complain to the authorities ( GMC and courts here ) that the doctor had NOT acted in the patients ( your relative that is!) best interests and should pay you ( the estate ) much moolah and lose his licence

Note to help posters - hydroxyChlor does NOT have a licence to be used in warding off covid

[Spicerack]

^ That was to Danny.

[cassa333]

Oh for goodness sake.

If this site would allow emojis I would simply have the facepalm pointed at all you who are so aggrieved by Trumps every move.

They have had trials with this for ages. Some have been successful and some haven’t. In the successful trials it has depended on the combination of the use of antibiotics and zinc.

If you are so flabbergasted by his use of a trial set of drugs just look on him as a human gerbil. If he dies you’ll probably be happy while pretending something else. If he lives and proves it works you’ll probably not be happy because you won’t believe it was the drugs because, well he just can’t be right can he.

[Spicerack]

Sp. ' Sandoz, the generics division of pharma giant Novartis has already donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile while German pharma company Bayer has donated one million doses of chloroquine.'

http://www.pmlive.com/pharma_news/fda_grants_emergency_authorisation_to_chloroquine_for_covid-19_1331981

[sp1814]

Spicerack / cassa333

I see.

[sp1814]

cassa333

Out of interest - can you point me to the trials and the outcomes which would encourage the use of hydroxychloroquine //outside// those trials.

[THECORBYLOON]

SPICERACK, from your link,

"The drug has already been touted as a potential treatment by President Donald Trump, who implied that the drug was approved for use in COVID-19 on 20 March.

However, the FDA swiftly rebuked this, stressing that the drug is still being tested clinical to determine its potential against COVID-19.

Although the drug has now been approved for emergency use, this authorisation only applies to certain COVID-19 patients, who must meet specific criteria to access the treatment."

[sp1814]

Spicerack

From the article you helpfully forwarded:

//The drug has already been touted as a potential treatment by President Donald Trump, who implied that the drug was approved for use in COVID-19 on 20 March.//

//However, the FDA swiftly rebuked this, stressing that the drug is still being tested clinical to determine its potential against COVID-19.
Although the drug has now been approved for emergency use, this authorisation only applies to certain COVID-19 patients, who must meet specific criteria to access the treatment.//

//In a statement from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency said it will allow for 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”.//

Could it be that the last statement is key here?

[sp1814]

THECORBYLOON

I see someone else take the trouble to read links, rather than just headlines.

Congratulation on hitting 'Answer Now' faster than me though.

[mushroom25]

// Is Dettol Next? //

Mr Trump will probably be washing his hydroxyChlor tablets down with a vodka and domestos.

[Spicerack]

Yes, chaps, and if you could read between the anti-Trump rhetoric you'd be able to see that DT calling it a potential treatment and the FDA sanctioning it's use in trials and general use (with bloody obvious provisos) amounts to the same thing.
You must learn to read media-speak properly.

[sp1814]

Spicerack

Our mistake. I thought from the report he was actually TAKING hydroxychloroquine.

I assume you've found something different.

Let's put this to bed - what do you have?

[Spicerack]

At the time of the report, they rebuked Trump for calling it a 'potential' treatment while testing it's potential. Nothing to do with him taking it, which he announced yesterday.

[sp1814]

Ha ha...LOL.

Okay Spirerack.

I’m sure that many would agree with you. I suppose it’s just one of those things where different people interpret the same story different ways.

I think we can agree to disagree on this.

[Spicerack]

Listen, I know you were taken in by the poor old Trump supporters who drank fish-tank cleaner.
'We always supported Trump and did everything he said. Now my beloved husband is dead and no-one should ever trust anything he says again'
An Oscar winning performance from a scheming Democrat who probably murdered her husband.
Even I never saw that twist coming. Get over it.

[dannyk13]

SR //Lots of medicines are taken and prescribed by UK Doctors for purposes other than their original use//
And you have proof of this?

[jim360]

Cassa:

// If [Trump] lives and proves [HCQ] works... //

By definition, the survival or death of one patient proves nothing. That is why full clinical trials are vital, and why the entire point of your post is flawed from the outset.

I hope Trump was made aware of the medical risks of HCQ, although if it is being delivered by a certified doctor then I suspect that the risk to his health will be low.

[Spicerack]

It's just common knowledge, Danny, I thought.
Aspirin for one.

[sandyRoe]

Is this the same anti malaria drug that some ex-servicemen say has caused them on-going mental health problems?

[maggiebee]

Oh dear Sandy, think POTUS has enough mental health problems without adding to them.

[Spicerack]

Don't know, sandy. Got a link?