Oklahoma tries to return its $2 million hydroxychloroquine stockpile

lol

essentialsaltes said:

The drug was ultimately discredited as a treatment option and the National Institute of Health released a report in November that the drug had “no clinical benefit to hospitalized patients.”

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The whole point of using Plaquenil + Zinc sulfate + Azythromicin in tandem was as prophylaxis for high risk groups to keep them out of the hospital setting. That worked, wherefore the Reset crowd wanted nothing to do with it (too soon a cure, not to mention it was well known and cheap). They cranked out a quick study showing that Plaquenil on it's own didn't help the too far gone (cytokine storm). Duh.

Womp womp

GOD Shines Forth! said:

The whole point of using Plaquenil + Zinc sulfate + Azythromicin in tandem was as prophylaxis for high risk groups to keep them out of the hospital setting. That worked, wherefore the Reset crowd wanted nothing to do with it (too soon a cure, not to mention it was well known and cheap). They cranked out a quick study showing that Plaquenil on it's own didn't help the too far gone (cytokine storm). Duh.

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That was the *claim*. But it was nonsense.

GOD Shines Forth! said:

The whole point of using Plaquenil + Zinc sulfate + Azythromicin in tandem was as prophylaxis for high risk groups to keep them out of the hospital setting. That worked, wherefore the Reset crowd[...]

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This is where I stopped reading.

GOD Shines Forth! said:

The whole point of using Plaquenil + Zinc sulfate + Azythromicin in tandem was as prophylaxis for high risk groups to keep them out of the hospital setting. That worked, wherefore the Reset crowd wanted nothing to do with it (too soon a cure, not to mention it was well known and cheap). They cranked out a quick study showing that Plaquenil on it's own didn't help the too far gone (cytokine storm). Duh.

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Odd that the Republicans in Oklahoma didn't follow this obviously SIMPLE procedure that you have outlined above.

Was it a secret?

Didn't you tell them about it?

Weren't they shown the exhaustive medical literature about it working as you describe?

essentialsaltes said:

[Gov.] Stitt was criticized last year for the $2 million purchase, a move viewed by some as a partisan move to curry favor with conservatives who were defending Trump amid criticism of his own support of the drug.

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Maybe they could donate it to a country where it is frequently used for malaria.

Hank77 said:

Maybe they could donate it to a country where it is frequently used for malaria.

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They could, but that would be communism.

bekkilyn said:

They could, but that would be communism.

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Well then they should sell it, along with some build-the-wall raffle tickets.

essentialsaltes said:

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of a malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as a way to treat the coronavirus.

[Gov.] Stitt was criticized last year for the $2 million purchase, a move viewed by some as a partisan move to curry favor with conservatives who were defending Trump amid criticism of his own support of the drug.

The drug was ultimately discredited as a treatment option and the National Institute of Health released a report in November that the drug had “no clinical benefit to hospitalized patients.”

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LOL! It serves them right. If you look at some of the posts on Gab, there are still people that are absolutely convinced that hydroxychloroquine is a proven cure for Covid and that the media and drug companies are trying to hide it from the public, so that they can sell vaccines.

Maybe Stitt will get lucky and a bad case of malaria will break out in Oklahoma, and he'll look like hero. Maybe hell will freeze over too.

It simply amazes me that anyone believed that Trump had any medical expertise in the first place, let alone trust him enough to invest millions of dollars in an unproven claim. How gullible does one have to be to trust a guy that talked about putting disinfectants inside the body to kill Covid? It serves him right.

My favorite part of the the article was this little gem:

Stitt wasn’t alone in his support of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the coronavirus. In August, Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, promoted hydroxychloroquine as a viable treatment after he had contracted COVID-19.

Though the drug had been widely discredited at that point, Humphrey, who has recently made news for seeking to establish a Bigfoot hunting season in Oklahoma and made waves in 2017 when he referred to pregnant women as “hosts,” encouraged Oklahomans to “take courage and begin treating COVID with Hydroxychloroquine.”

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Emphasis mine. I guess that says it all.

I don't think there's a prayer's chance in hell that the company that sold them the drug is going to take it back after 8 months. I sure wouldn't do it. Stitt would be way better off talking to some sub-Saharan African nations and offering them a great deal on a malaria drug that they might actually need and use.

durangodawood said:

Well then they should sell it, along with some build-the-wall raffle tickets.

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But only in Mexico.

essentialsaltes said:

The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office has been tasked with attempting to return a $2 million stockpile of a malaria drug once touted by former President Donald Trump as a way to treat the coronavirus.

[Gov.] Stitt was criticized last year for the $2 million purchase, a move viewed by some as a partisan move to curry favor with conservatives who were defending Trump amid criticism of his own support of the drug.

The drug was ultimately discredited as a treatment option and the National Institute of Health released a report in November that the drug had “no clinical benefit to hospitalized patients.”

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Wait, you're telling me that taking medical advice from a guy who had to be reminded not to stare at the sun might have costly consequences? Why, I'd never have guessed.