FDA denies Henry Ford Health request to use hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients

[demmiblue]

Source: Detroit Free Press

Weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration revoked emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, saying the drug doesn't help coronavirus patients and has potentially dangerous side effects, Henry Ford Health System filed for permission to continue using it.

The Detroit-based health system told the Free Press this week that it sought emergency use authorization July 6 to resume treating some COVID-19 patients with the drug, which is commonly used as an anti-malarial medication and for people with autoimmune diseases like lupus.

The request came four days after Henry Ford published a controversial study in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases that suggested hydroxychloroquine slashed the COVID-19 death rate in half. The peer-reviewed observational study contradicted other published reports that showed the drug doesn't help coronavirus patients and could cause heart rhythm problems in some people.

The FDA denied Henry Ford's request this week.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/08/13/henry-ford-health-hydroxychloroquine-covid-fda/3360940001/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

[pandr32]

1. Good

[rockfordfile]

13. I agree

[IronLionZion]

2. Might as well inject disinfectant or use UV light

[Initech]

4. Or drink some Clorox.

I heard a guy on TV say that!

[Docreed2003]

3. Good for the FDA

This study out of Ford is a joke. If you look at the details of the study, the real reason patients got better was because of steroid therapy in the form of dexamethasone,a drug which has been shown repeatedly to be effective in the treatment of critically ill patients with Covid.

[NickB79]

11. Bingo

[Roy Rolling]

5. The Ford Study

That fiasco has been the holy grail for disciples of Doctor Trump too long. Every ZuckerBerg Zombie is required to share rewrites of the article on Facebook.

And this action by the FDA won’t shut them up. They are already rung. You can’t Un-ring that bell.

[TheRickles]

6. On the other hand, there's this recent, very pro-HCQ paper by a Yale epidemiology professor

It was in Newsweek a few weeks ago: https://www.newsweek.com/key-defeating-covid-19-already-exists-we-need-start-using-it-opinion-1519535

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. Ummm, Newsweek departed the realm

of journalism some time ago. I think it started when they started printing headlines in all caps.

[TheRickles]

8. But has Yale?

I agree about Newsweek, but Yale is still pretty reputable last I checked and the guy is a full professor there. It's an opinion piece, an easy read, so perhaps worth having a look.

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. The guy who just said Kamala Harris

isn't qualified to be VP was also a credentialed academic, published in Newsweek. We are running into the problem that "experts" are willing to debase themselves for cash. It used to be that publications would point out conflicts, or major deviations from orthodoxy, but that is becoming a thing of the past. Hell, I no longer consider the NYT to be reliable given its behaviour over the last 20 years.

[NickB79]

10. Yes, Yale has said his research is an outlier

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/26290/

And his fellow researchers were even more harsh.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/08/04/statement-from-yale-faculty-on-hydroxychloroquine-and-its-use-in-covid-19/

[mackdaddy]

12. India has gone to Ivermectin as a Covid treatment.

Will be interesting if they can do an actual double blind study on this.

I guess worst case you won't have tapeworms.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/up-new-protocol-ivermectin-to-replace-hcq-in-treatment-of-covid-patients-6545236/