Hydroxychloroquine Does Save Lives After All, New Study Finds
A brand-new scientific study compared hundreds of hospitalized recipients of hydroxychloroquine (and azithromycin) with thousands of controls who received standard hospital care.
This study was carefully done, peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal, New Microbes and New Infections.
It looked at very sick, hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and tried to see if hydroxychloroquine, given with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, would help save lives.
The authors selected matching controls to account for any possible confounding effects.
We conducted a retrospective analysis to compare the 28-day mortality rate in 352 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine with or without azithromycin (HCQ-group) in our hospital with a contemporary control group of 3,533 patients receiving standard of care from the Belgian Collaborative Group on COVID-19 Hospital Surveillance. (emphasis added, here and below)
The scientists found that hydroxychloroquine did save lives:
A statistically significant reduction in crude mortality rate at 28 days was observed in the HCQ-group compared to standard of care (16.8% vs 25.9%,p = 0.001).
For those not statistically inclined, p=0.001 means there is less than one-in-a-thousand possibility of this outcome being a random bit of luck. In other words, this is a finding of a very high degree of statistical certainty.
Scientists did their utmost to eliminate any possible confounding factors, such as the effect of age and so on.
After adjustment for these variables the OR for mortality was 0.635 (95%CI 0.464–0.875). Patients who did not receive HCQ had a 57% higher risk of mortality.
Read this again: those who did not receive HCQ had a 57% greater chance of dying, all other things being equal!
The authors conclude:
A Bit of History
Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) was known as a safe and effective drug for COVID-19 and was used in China from the beginning.
However, having a safe and effective medicine may have precluded expedited approval (emergency use authorisation) for the COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore, for the vaccine promoters, dismissing all safe and effective treatments was useful.
Indeed, a fake Surgisphere study was arranged that ‘proved’ the ineffectiveness of HCQ using a completely fabricated dataset. Based on this study and another industry-sponsored study intentionally administering harmful doses of HCQ, the FDA recommended not using hydroxychloroquine. Despite the Surgisphere study exposed as an elaborate fraud, HCQ was never reinstated as a recommended drug.
A part of this story was that, unluckily, President Trump touted HCQ as an effective treatment. The Pfizer-sponsored media, additionally suffering from Trump derangement syndrome, was quick to denounce anything recommended by Trump. Truth did not matter to them; neither did the lives of people who could die following wrong recommendations.
Suppressing safe and effective Covid drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, sadly costs lives.
How Many Lives Were Lost?
According to the official statistics, 1,178,411 people have died of Covid in the United States. If 37% of those lives could have been saved by using HCQ then about 436,000 people would not have had to die needlessly. They would still be with us, enjoying the company of their loved ones, children and grandchildren.
Instead, Pfizer made billions, the pandemic was never stopped, and the Pfizer-sponsored press has moved the object of its hysterical attention elsewhere.
Do you think that we will hear a ‘pandemic apology’?
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Strange to see this the same day that Amazon has removed Peter McCullough & John Leake’s book.
Yes, and even odder is that the book is still available on Amazon Audible, but not on Kindle.
So, as I have stated here repeatedly governments were complicit in mass murder.
“Do you think that we will hear a ‘pandemic apology?”
I would point out that way more than an apology is owed to the people of this world. Actually, the reality is that the C1984 Scamdemic was only a taster. Once the Pandemic Preparedness Treaty and the revised International Health Regulations are in place we can look forward to a massive assault on population numbers – that’s Orwell speak for more mass murder.
“as I have stated here repeatedly” will be your epitaph. I don’t think you’re the only one to have made this observation though! (Not that you’re wrong)
Murder implies intent, and I think there was none. Panic yes. Also a persistent refusal or denial the one could be wrong. That to me is almost a greater sin. If in the end there were to be criminal charges filed it would be for involuntary manslaughter, I suggest.
I disagree. They knew that the vaccine was both ineffective and dangerous from the tiny amount of testing carried out. That didn’t stop them from covering that data up and not passing it to the regulators. That is murder, with full intent to make loads of money however much damage was done. Then they stopped anyone using anything else. That was the second factor of intent. Guilty as charged, not murder, Genocide.
Absolutely.
Sasha Latypova goes into exhaustive detail to show that this event was planned at the highest levels of the USG as a deliberate depopulation strategy.
The programme was placed under the aegis of the US DoD, and so it was considered to be a military countermeasure, not a medical emergency.
Thus, the CDC / Pfizer / DHSS etc were only ever subcontractors, and so all their supposed oversight of medicines was waived, and the poisons were inflicted on the people without any sort of safety or efficacy testing.
Correct.
The article quotes ‘official’ death figures, but as you could die from being run over by a bus within 14 days of a positive test, and still have Covid on your death certificate, can I suggest that these numbers are taken with a pinch of salt.
This is the whole problem with drawing conclusions about anything related to,the Fakedemic, the data (such as it is) is so iffy, that any conclusions based on it are entirely unreliable and impossible to validate.
Lol – a loudmouth narcissistic property developer with weird hair knows more about treating illnesses then the entire global medical establishment! “Public health” – if Orwell were around today he’d include the “Ministry of Public Health” which specialises in killing people off alongside the others:
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
Of course it does.
Why else would Macron have pulled it from the OTC shelves in French pharmacies 2 months before the ‘plandemic’s’ official starting date?
Found this while looking for a reference to the withdrawal from sale in France
UK bans parallel export and hoarding of three Covid-19 drugs – Pharmaceutical Technology (pharmaceutical-technology.com)
“The export of the US-based AbbVie’s Kaletra / Aluvia, a combination lopinavir and ritonavir, the generic drug chloroquine phosphate and the generic drug hydroxychloroquine is being restricted to meet the needs of UK patients, the government said.”
So they had a pretty good idea it would be useful, then someone told them to forget it…
Trump will never have come upon HCQ by himself – he was fed it by Fauci, who published a 2005 paper on SARS discussing its effectiveness in vitro. It was also probably Fauci who then set out to shoot the idea down as being sold by a buffoon. Fauci’s primary public health role was to sabotage everything, we know that thanks to FOIA. This criminal’s face rag is in the Smithsonian, where it is credited as belonging to “infectious disease superstar” Fauci (comments are turned off). Superstar all right, if they mean creates and spreads infectious diseases. It doesn’t really matter, Trump never mentioned IVM and that got the same treatment. I’ve mentioned before, in October 2020 a retrospective analysis was carried out among a group of (I think) approx. 12 hospitals belonging to the same health care system here in NL. In spring 2020 they all used what drugs seemed a possibility, about half used HCQ and the retrospective analysis showed that 50% fewer of their corona patients went to ICU than in the hospitals that didn’t use HCQ. This was briefly mentioned in the news and then just disappeared, with no attention being paid to it. HCQ was… Read more »
Amen
The idiocy continues. My husband is set to get a fourth booster along with a flu shot tonight. My heavily boosted daughter just got over her first bout of covid. She was sick for a week, with temps over 102, fatigue, and a sore throat. Those symptoms don’t seem mild, like all the politicians say they experience after multi covid bouts and shots. Mild to me is a runny nose. Is covid still causing weeklong illness?
It is if you have had all the shots. They actually prevent normal immune response (T cell) to infection! Basically they are lethal. Watch Dr John Campbell on Youtube, its all there, along with all the expert proof you will need. I fear for his safety, not from Covid but lead!
Their immune systems have effectively been disabled by the jabs and with every booster they have it will get worse. Watch Dr John Campbell’s interview with Prof Andrew Dalgleish on YouTube.
I’m not defending the efficacy of the vaccine in any way, but a lot of people misunderstand “mild” – in medical terms it just means anything not requiring treatment, particularly hospital treatment. You can feel horrendous and the illness is still classed as “mild”. As we know, for most non-elderly healthy people covid would fit into this definition of mild, vaxxed or not.
For those not statistically inclined, p=0.001 means there is less than one-in-a-thousand possibility of this outcome being a random bit of luck.
For those who want to understand statistics this is false. It means that if the treatment makes no difference then there is less than one-in-a-thousand possibility of getting this outcome or one more extreme. That is quite different.
The statement in laymans terms is as stated, p=0.001 is as near a certainty as any experiment is ever going to produce unless the result is deliberately controlled. Why try to confuse people, perhaps you don’t like the result? To get an even more certain result (say p=0.0001) would require a huge test and a huge control group, but you may not know that!
I think there is a misunderstanding. I have no axe to grind about Hydroxychloroquine and this study appears to be a good contribution to the evidence. I made my comment because whenever I see a misrepresentation of p values I can’t resist it. It is nothing to do with whether the p-value is 0.001 or 0.0001 or whatever. It is to do with what that p-value means. As a “real engineer” you are presumably familiar with the literature around the interpretation of p values. As this link puts it – a low p-value does not mean: The p-value is the probability that the null hypothesis is true (which is what Chudov was claiming). (1 – the p-value) is the probability that the alternative hypothesis is true. A low p-value shows that the results are replicable. A low p-value shows that the effect is large or that the result is of major theoretical, clinical or practical importance. Having got that off my chest, the paper is important evidence (the authors do not make the same mistake as Chudov). What I don’t buy into is the idea that prior studies showing no effect were a deliberate attempt to hide the evidence. There were many… Read more »
Also, they claim a 57% reduction in mortality in relative terms, but the absolute reduction as I understand it from the article above is closer to 9%. Still a decent amount, but it’s trickery along the same lines as the vaxx reduction in mortality.
The absolute reduction would depend on the population under consideration. They were looking at population that had an underlying mortality rate within 28 days of 25% i.e. extremely high and as you say this gives an absolute reduction of about 9%. For a less sick population the absolute reduction would be far lower. That is why this:
According to the official statistics, 1,178,411 people have died of Covid in the United States. If 37% of those lives could have been saved by using HCQ then about 436,000 people would not have had to die needlessly.
is rubbish. Those million deaths wouldn’t all have been among the very sick category that had a 25% chance of dying when they came into hospital.
Good point. My brain is getting a bit confused at this point though. Wouldn’t most of the deaths been among the very sick? Assuming accurate death attribution anyway, which is another matter. Since generally you need to get very sick before you die. So even though the absolute reduction would be much lower for someone young and healthy, they were never likely to die anyway. Much like the vaccine, if you believe it had some benefit for the elderly and unwell.
Yes – I take back that comment. The whole idea of RR is that it is meant to apply to all populations while AR only applies to a specific population. If that were true the reduction in deaths would in theory apply whatever the population. However, I doubt the assumption that the RR can be applied across a broad range of populations.
Yesterday evening I listened to over 3 hours of a live scientific discussion by a group of international scientists on the potential ramifications of the plasmid DNA contamination of mRNA vaccines.
It is clear these products need to be taken off the shelf pronto until scientific research catches up. Nobel prize or not….
In a few days the whole discussion will be available on:
worldvouncilforhealth.org
Not much chance of taking MRNA off the shelves when the government has a tax payer funded partnership with Moderna to produce this toxic stuff here in the UK
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/projects/moderna-mrna-vaccine-facility-uk/
The essence of the discussion I assume would have been that the plasmids tend to reverse transcribe the mRNA back into the DNA, and thus every generation subsequently has artificial DNA in it, and thus is a patentable and owned entity.
There is also SV40 viral promoter sequence in the shot – which has no place whatsoever in being there, as SV40 is a known carcinogen – and in fact was found in the original polio “vaccine” – one wonders if this is simply a tried and tested way to kill people.
Incidentally, it now seems that polio wasn’t caused by a “virus” anyway, but by the arsenical pesticides that fruit growers were encouraged to spray their trees with; but of course this fact can never be admitted by the “peer reviewers” etc who doctor all the information we receive so as to protect their own backsides, and those of the corporations who fund them in producing these poisonous substances.
I think it was the editor of the BMJ or Lancet who did an expose on this practice not so long ago.
Science is totally compromised, and bought and sold, for those who still cling to it.
The best thing you can take in this regarrd if you can’t get hold of the pharmaceuticals is green teatextract and Zinc supplements. I wouldn’t recomend high doses of Zinc because there are indications that high levels of Zinc can lead to higher levels of certain illnesses. You can certainly double the RDA to 30mg but I wouldn’t go above that. We live in a very Selenium deprived environemnt. I would say double the RDA but don’t go above that. I have recently moved from 3 grams of Vitamin C a day to six grams and the difference is amazing. I would say find the optimum amount and remember that natural vitamin c is far better, If you haven’t supplemented with Selenium before I guarantee that you will notice the difference in hours.
Also copper and vit D.
Vitamin D is the thing to take, almost all humans of whatever country and skin colour are deficient. Dark people in the UK are particularly deficient. 2000 iu per day has kept me and my wife completely free of any infections of note for years, and of course no covid, without masks, lockdowns or any other nonsense! We are supposedly in the higher risk group too…
Important to add vitamin K to the D.
200 mcg ( microgrammes ) is a reasonable dose – or eat a cupful of dandelion leaves.
This is because D promotes the absorption of calcium from the diet, and without K to carboxylate the protein osteocalcin, this calcium will deposit randomly in the body, including in the arteries, where you don’t want it.
K then, is the intelligent overseer of the process; it takes calcium out of the arteries, and puts it into the bones.
Echineacea and Green Chiretta are natural products used to boost the immune system and help you resist/treat respiratory illnesses.
I take Vit C, D, Zinc and Cod Liver Oil every day and Echinacea from November – March.
There had to be no other treatment for covid, if any off the shelf drugs where discovered to work there would have been no EUA for the miracle award winning sludge. It doesn’t matter who promoted HCQ or IVM it was all about getting mRNA into as many arms as possible. We’ve witnessed pure evil over the last three years.
The reistance is better than expected which tells me that there is a native intelligence in the British people. It is a long slow march but we should feel that we cherish our countrymen.
Yes it looks like one Long March will have to be countered by another…
So did we all think that the mRNA jabs manufacturers were being given immunity for wholesome, altruistic reasons?
I am actually surprised by the strength of the effect. HCQ is one of the drugs used in autoimmune rheumatic diseases and is generally considered to be weak, and so used in conjunction with others. But that it works at all is additional fuel for the argument that COVID-19 is an immune disorder. Of course the recommended management now for severe disease is steroids and tocilizumab, which I recommended for the UK in May 2020 using a protocol designed by Marik and Kory on the basis that both were established treatments for cytokine storm syndrome. They are likewise drugs used in autoimmune disease management. The delay in their introduction thanks to an inexplicable decision to reinvent the wheel by running a trial to prove what was already known caused, in my opinion, several thousand avoidable deaths here.
I am sure that you are aware that the vaccine reduces the effectiveness of the immune system, blocks T cell response etc. See the Prof Dalgleish interview with Dr John Campbell on you Tube. The evidence for both is very clear from the Oncology data, the vax increases the virulence of cancer by many times, and the speed of development much higher due to immune system damage. Metastasis data is appauling, breaking out all over the body in many patients.
Difficult to assess the impact of this, as Covid-19 is a hyperimmune state and the drugs used for Covid-19 are themselves immune suppressants (steroids and tocilizumab). The theoretical risk of suppressing tumour necrosis factor in rheumatoid arthritis was a worry when biologics were first introduced, and so the British Society for Rheumatology set up a register (BSRBR-RA) which has run for over 20 years and has as yet found no evidence of increased cancer risk despite the extension of biologics to include interleukin antagonists (of which tocilizumab is one) and both T- and B-Cell antagonists. The whole thing is extremely complex, not least as on the one hand immune suppression works in Covid-19 as well as in autoimmune disease, while on the other there is some evidence that SARS-CoV-2 may, if it persists, stimulate autoimmune disease (and the vaccines may also).
What I would reiterate is that such uncertainty kills the construct of “settled science” stone dead. After all, many research papers conclude “More research is needed”. I think we are years from the whole truth.
” ….according to the official statistics, 1,178.411 people have died of covid in the US.” I think we should be well past the stage at which we need to remind people that “of covid” and “with covid” are entirely different concepts; and that “with covid” should probably be read here. Furthermore, it is probably a good idea to point out that ivermectin / HCQ are simply ionophore / zinc donors, and so something even more efficacious in this regard is zinc itself and quercetin. The latter comes, inter alia, from apples – have we ever heard the saying “An apple a day … ” etc? and of course zinc is found in shellfish and many other places. Zinc needs to get into the cell so that the DNA can manufacture the so called zinc finger proteins, which are always generated when infections need to be dealt with. Overall then, a reasonably healthy diet should protect people from sickening and dying, even though eventually we all have to face this necessary and inevitable moment in our lives. So one wonders how many people would have died normally during the assessed period; I suspect something like the number quoted, and probably far… Read more »
Terminology matters. “With Covid” implies a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, but having SARS-CoV-2 does NOT mean you have Covid-19, which is the severe hyperimmune state that can be induced by SARS-CoV-2 – as well as by other coronaviruses and indeed numerous other triggers. Dying “From Covid” implies that the hyperimmune state has developed (and was not treated in a timely fashion).
Then it must be ‘effective’ against all respiratory virus infections and pneumonia.
How did the Common Cold Research Unit miss it during its 50 year search for a cure?
HCQ is a weak immune suppressant (we rheumatologists have been using it thus for decades). Thus it works against the hyperimmune state induced by SARS-CoV-2, not against the virus per se. It would probably stop the hyperimmune state developing in other conditions where that might be an issue, which it isn’t for most sufferers from respiratory infections