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The signs are all there, it is a dangerous game of political brinkmanship where the doctors and patients are being used as pawns⏤in what appears to be nothing more than political posturing. Successful treatment protocols using hydroxychloroquine exist that describe low dose, short duration over 5 to 7 days treatment early in COVID-19 to help reduce severity, rate of spread and need for hospitalization.
So then why the political firestorm against hydroxychloroquine? “It simply makes no medical sense,” explains Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet.
More than a third of America’s Covid-19 deaths occurred in NYC—a city of just 7 million of our nation’s approximately 330 million citizens. New York Governor Cuomo’s executive order prohibits pharmacists from dispensing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, except when the prescription is for a US FDA approved indication, part of a state-approved clinical trial. New York county executives, according to Steve McLaughlin of Rensselaer County, are perplexed as to why Cuomo prohibited the treatment from being dispensed to different parts of the state. “I think most of us would say, ‘Why are our doctors and pharmacists being prevented by Cuomo from even prescribing it?’ Which right now, he put a block on that, and you can’t even really get your hands on it.”
We are seeing the politics of saving lives play out across America as the media war against hydroxychloroquine continues. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci is on record saying that we need to wait for a vaccine to safely re-open the country, yet he better than anyone knows the safety issues of vaccines rushed to market without adequate testing⏤as they can take years to bring to market.
We will take a deeper look on the politics behind using hydroxychloroquine on The Voice of a Nation with: Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. – an independent physician specializing in Preventive and Climacteric Medicine. ViveLifeCenter.com has patient services in Tucson AZ and Dallas TX, and Telemedicine. Image: AP