Brazil's Medical Council Authorizes Hydroxychloroquine Use, after Meeting with Bolsonaro

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Folha (Brazil)


The entity's president said that there is no strong scientific evidence to support the use of the drug for the disease

Apr.24.2020 2:05PM

Ricardo Della Coletta
BRASÍLIA

Brazil’s Federal Council of Medicine has authorized the use of hydroxychloroquine, even though there is no scientific evidence that the drug is an effective treatment for the novel coronavirus.

The announcement was made by Mauro Luiz Britto Ribeiro, CFM president, after a meeting with President Jair Bolsonaro and with Health Minister Nelson Teich.

During the meeting, Ribeiro gave the council’s opinion on the administration of the substance in people with Covid-19.

Bolsonaro is an enthusiast of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the treatment of the disease. He has already defended that they are used even in the initial stage of the disease, and his defense of medications was one of the central points of the conflict with former minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, who was against the broad recommendation of the remedy for the coronavirus.


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[spudspud]

1. Wonder how many Brazilians will drop dead from using that crap...

to fight a COVID infection, before they pull it? Most of the articles I've seen so far regarding this medication's use for treating COVID say it's too dangerous to continue testing it because patients keep dying from its use.

[Javaman]

8. They will only use it in the poor.

They will be the test subjects.

[DFW]

2. Once Trump is gone

I wonder if Bolsonaro will change his tune (or a coup will change it for him)?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. One of the main studies torpedoing the chloroquines comes from Brazil: risky heart failures

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Brazilian chloroquine study halted after high dose proved lethal for some patients
Source: The Guardian

Brazilian chloroquine study halted after high dose proved lethal for some patients

Concerns grow as the journal Nature raises alarm on serious heart risks associated with Covid-19 patients taking the drugs

Jessica Glenza
Last modified on Sat 25 Apr 2020 02.32 BST

A Brazilian study investigating whether the anti-malaria drug chloroquine was effective in treating patients with Covid-19 was halted on safety concerns, after a high dose of the drug proved lethal for some patients.

Chloroquine, and a related drug, hydroxychloroquine, in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin, has been touted as a potential treatment for coronavirus by Donald Trump despite a lack of evidence.

The findings were published as a letter in the journal Nature raised alarm about serious heart risks associated with Covid-19 patients taking the drugs and the US Food and Drug Administration warned of serious heart complications.

Donald Trump has previously urged Americans to take hydroxychloroquine, although he has apparently backed away from the drug in recent days, and on Thursday even suggested that injections of disinfectant could cure Covid-19 – an idea that was swiftly refuted by experts, who warned the public “please don’t inject bleach”.

The Brazilian study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open (Jama), was halted by a safety monitoring board before even one-quarter of the planned 440 patients were enrolled. Eighty-one patients with Covid-19 or suspected Covid-19 were given a daily regimen of chloroquine. The randomized clinical trial separated the patients into a high-dose and a low-dose group.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/chloroquine-study-coronavirus-brazil

[lark]

5. He too is killing his people on purpose and one assumes for profit.

Why else would he do this when the hospital system ran a test and found the death rate was more than twice that of the control group so suspended the test due to the excessive death rate?

[IronLionZion]

6. Conservatives everywhere can remove themselves from this world

if they believe their leaders. Bolsonaro must be getting some kickbacks from the companies that make it.

[DAngelo136]

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[paleotn]

7. I'm just not getting the hydroxychloroquine deal when it comes to Brazil. Or anywhere else.

What am I missing? Using a drug that doesn't work won't make the pandemic go away. It just won't. And the propaganda value ends when the bodies start stacking up. No matter how much you made from your hydroxychloroquine investments, hoards of people WILL come to your house and do a Mussolini on your ass. This is Brazil and they're a bit more active politically than lazy Americans. Even if you do manage to skip, you'll always be looking over your shoulder for someone akin to Simon Wiesenthal. And where are you going to stash your cash so it won't be found and confiscated? There are places, but they also severely limit your ability to enjoy your cash. I don't think the Brazilian people will simply let this slide. Around 5 to 6% of the population dead, maybe 10 to 15% as their healthcare system is quickly overwhelmed. Hell, that might even make Americans storm a motorcade headed for Andrews.

[Greybnk48]

9. Who's profiting from the sale of this drug? n/t