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"The executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the Solidarity trial while the safety data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board. The other arms of the trial are continuing."The drug has been repeatedly endorsed by a world leaders including Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and US president Donald Trump — who yesterday said he had just finished a course of the medicine, which he claimed to have been taking as a preventative measure.
"Our large-scale, international, real-world analysis supports the absence of a clinical benefit of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine and points to potential harm in hospitalised patients with COVID-19."The same study concluded that patients receiving hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic faced a 45 per cent increased risk of death and a 411 per cent increased risk of serious heart arrhythmias.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has suspended the testing of 4-aminoquinoline derivatives - hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as a medicine in the treatment of coronavirus infection.See also:
The day before, the head of the Department of Health and Coordination of the Moscow Department of Health, Professor Yevgeny Nikonov, said that while according to preliminary data from a clinical study involving 4 thousand health workers, the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine does not reduce the likelihood of contracting SARS-CoV-2, but does however effectively reduce the severity of the disease.
"Hydroxychloroquine absolutely does not protect against a new coronavirus infection, it develops with or without administration, but the course of the disease in patients who take it is milder. These are preliminary results. Already at the end of May, we plan to give concrete results on this study,"
Meanwhile, other testing indicate that Nikonov's statements conceal an important truth, which hinges upon the definition of infection. Technically, infection means the detectable presence of a virus, whereas in the common usage it may seem to imply being symptomatic. Hydroxychloroquine may not prevent the contraction of the virus or its detection in the blood, but it has established itself as a drug that can work 'preventatively' against developing symptoms.
All existing treatments rely on the body building up an immunity and for the infection to pass, while the various drugs used work to alleviate the symptoms which may otherwise be life threatening.
Chinese scientists have discovered another promising drug against the new coronavirus. During the research, they found that Dipyridamole, which has been used for more than half a century to treat angina pectoris and diseases caused by disorders in the blood coagulation system, helps seriously ill patients.
The "vaccination roadmap" is not an improvised response to the Covid19 pandemic, but rather an ongoing plan with roots going back to 2018, when the EU released a survey of the public's attitude toward vaccines titled "2018 State of Vaccine Confidence".On the back of this research, the EU then commissioned a technical report titled "Designing and implementing an immunisation information system", on - among other things - the plausibility of an EU-wide vaccination monitoring system.
"We're now calling it voting at home because that's really what it's all about — enabling people to vote at home."Pelosi said the $3.6 billion in the House's HEROES Act is "necessary to conduct an election" where all voters would receive absentee ballots. The House Speaker also reportedly said this week $3.6 billion is just
"a small price to pay for our democracy and the good health of people going to the polls."[If Republicans "don't support the resources, then they have stood in the way of voting, which is in keeping with their voter suppression in general."The House Speaker has also said that more funds are needed for same-day registration services and to provide more and safer opportunities for voters to also "vote well in advance of Election Day."
Voting is "under assault both from a systematic national, nationwide campaign of voter suppression and from the coronavirus. People should not have to choose between voting and preserving their good health and that of their families."
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