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Low Coronavirus Fatality Rates for Countries Using (HCQ) Hydroxychloroquine

    Nickie Louisetechstartups.com Posted On July 23, 2020

    The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a non-partisan and non-profit professional association of physicians founded in 1944. According to the information on its website, AAPS has been dedicated to the highest ethical standards of the Oath of Hippocrates and to preserving the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and the practice of private medicine. Its motto is: “omnia pro aegroto” means “all for the patient.” The group is reported to have about 5,000 members in 2014.

    We wrote about AAPS back in April after the group published a report of its study that showed hydroxychloroquine to have about 90 percent chance of helping COVID-19 patients. At the time, the group reported that a total number of 2,333 coronavirus patients were treated with HCQ, with or without zinc and the widely used antibiotic azithromycin. The report was based on observational data from China, France, South Korea, Algeria, and the U.S. Of these, 2,137 or 91.6 percent improved clinically. There were 63 deaths, all but 11 in a single retrospective report from the Veterans Administration where the patients were severely ill.

    In late June, the group filed its motion for a preliminary injunction with court to compel release to the public of hydroxychloroquine by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), in AAPS v. HHS, No. 1:20-cv-00493-RJJ-SJB (W.D. Mich.).

    As part of the filing with the court, AAPS also includes a chart showing how countries that encourage HCQ use, such as South Korea, India, Turkey, Russia, and Israel, have been far more successful in combatting COVID-19 than countries that have banned or discouraged early HCQ use, as the FDA has.

    According to AAPS, nearly 100 million doses of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) were donated to federal agencies, and yet they have not released virtually any of it to the public.

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