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Hydroxychloroquine Succeeds While Government Hoards
John and Andy Schlafly, Town Hall, May 06, 2020
(https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2020/05/06/hydroxychloroquine-succeeds-while-government-hoards-n2568271)
There are many new examples of the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as an early treatment of COVID-19, yet stockpiles of it waste away in government warehouses. Most of the 100 million donated doses will expire without ever being distributed to help dying Americans.
Ever since President Trump suggested that HCQ could be an effective treatment for COVID-19, Democrats have worked overtime to prove the president wrong. They falsely trumpeted the death of a man who ingested fish tank cleaner, an incident which his friends say may have actually been foul play to harm him while hiding the crime.
HCQ is a 55-year-old, inexpensive medication that is widely used to treat malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Like any drug it causes side effects in a small fraction of the population, but 55 years of successful use proves that it can be taken safely by most people.
Democrats were humiliated when an African-American state representative, Karen Whitsett, publicly thanked President Trump after she was cured of coronavirus by taking the drug that Trump recommended. At a caucus in her legislative district in Detroit, held over Zoom last Saturday, 15 Democrats unanimously passed a resolution to censure Rep. Whitsett for giving credit where credit was due.
At nearby Wayne State University, a 92-year-old researcher, Dr. Ananda Prasad, was fortunate. He could prescribe an HCQ zinc therapy for himself when he contracted the virus, and he attributes his recovery to this treatment.
Other elderly patients have been lucky to have a child who prescribed them HCQ. Dr. Daniel Amen reportedly stepped in to save the lives of his elderly parents, age 88 and 90, by prescribing HCQ and azithromycin to enable them to recover from COVID-19.
Anna Fortunato is a 90-year-old Long Islander who was hospitalized with COVID-19. She was so ill that her daughter asked for a priest to give her the last rites of the church, but the hospital refused to allow a priest to visit her bedside because it was too risky.
After taking HCQ, she recovered and was discharged after two harrowing weeks in the hospital. Mrs. Fortunato is looking forward to celebrating her 91st birthday in June with her family.
“I had a good husband, and my children are beautiful,” she recounted to the AP. “I’ve lived to see grandchildren, and great-grandchildren … so I AM fortunate.”
At the other end of New York State, in the town of Albion near Buffalo, 94-year-old Norma Longrod was hospitalized with a fever and tested positive for the coronavirus. “We also did treat her with hydroxychloroquine, which is a medicine out there we’ve talked about in the press,” the hospitalist medical director explained.
“I’m much better – much, much better than when I came here. They thought that I was not going to make it,” Mrs. Longrod said after her recovery.
(Read more: https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2020/05/06/hydroxychloroquine-succeeds-while-government-hoards-n2568271)
Congressional committee demands these 5 public companies return coronavirus loans meant for small businesses
Chris Matthews, MarketWatch, May 9, 2020
(https://tinyurl.com/ybc253vw)
Pressure on larger companies to return PPP money is growing
A congressional panel tasked with overseeing coronavirus stimulus funds sent letters Friday afternoon to five public companies that took out Paycheck Protection Program loans, demanding they return the money on the grounds that businesses like theirs have access to other forms of funding so their seeking and acceptance of the funds deprives truly needy small businesses.
“Since your company is a public entity with a substantial investor base and access to capital markets, we ask that you return these funds immediately,” a panel of seven Democratic members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis wrote to each of the five firms.
“Returning these funds would allow truly small businesses — which do not have access to alternative sources of capital — to obtain the emergency loans they need to avoid layoffs, stay in business, and weather the economic disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis.”
The committee, chaired by South Carolina Democrat Rep. James Clyburn, issued these demands to public firms with a market capitalization of more than $25 million, more than 600 employees and which received PPP loans of at least $10 million.
(Read more: https://tinyurl.com/ybc253vw)
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Dr. Maurice Hilleman discusses with medical historian Dr. Edward Shorter how he found Simian Virus 40 (SV40) in polio vaccine in this censored segment of an undated interview. Date unknown.
However, while the interview raises questions, note this as well:
Vaccine Ingredients – SV40
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sept. 27, 2016
(https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/sv40)
Polio vaccines used in the late 1950s and early 1960s were contaminated with a virus called simian virus 40 (SV40) present in monkey kidney cells used to grow the vaccine. Subsequently, investigators found SV40 DNA in biopsy specimens obtained from patients with cancers such as mesothelioma (lung), osteosarcoma (bone) and non-Hodgkins lymphoma (lymph nodes). However, several facts should be noted:
SV40 was present in cancers of people who either had or had not received the polio vaccines that were contaminated with SV40.
SV40 has not been present in any vaccine since 1963.
People with cancers who were born after SV40 was no longer a contaminant of the polio vaccine were found to have evidence for SV40 in their cancerous cells.
Epidemiologic studies do not show an increased risk of cancers in those who received polio vaccine between 1955 and 1963.
Taken together, these findings do not support the hypothesis that SV40 virus contained in polio vaccines administered before 1963 cause cancers. In addition, available evidence suggests that SV40 virus is likely be transmitted to people by a mechanism other than vaccines.
References
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Reviewed by Paul A. Offit, MD on September 27, 2016