South Dakota implements statewide
hydroxychloroquine clinical trial for
potential coronavirus treatment
Fox News,
by
Brooke Singman
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
4/13/2020 1:04:20 PM
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday announced a statewide clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine for the possible treatment of COVID-19, making her state the first in the country to institute a program exploring the potential effectiveness of the drug in treating and preventing coronavirus.
“From Day One, I’ve said we’re going to let the science, facts and data drive our decision-making in South Dakota,” Noem said in a statement provided to Fox News.
Noem, a Republican, announced the “comprehensive” clinical trial Monday after communicating with White House officials in the last week to “let them know that South Dakota’s medical community was ready to step up
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Texpub 4/13/2020 1:12:24 PM (No. 378276)
In stark contrast to Governor Whitmer, Michigan.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Plex 4/13/2020 1:39:45 PM (No. 378296)
Is she suggesting that some victims would get a placebo and be allowed to end up on a ventilator? Unethical, since the drug cocktail has been shown unequivocally to cure over 90% of patients. What is it with these people. Fauci used it for MERS without trials! (or was it SARS)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
valinva 4/13/2020 1:42:59 PM (No. 378299)
# 2 beat me to it. At this point in time with so much "anecdotal" evidence that the drug combination works, it is immoral to give one half of a group of deathly ill people a placebo. Give everyone who had the virus the drugs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/13/2020 1:49:39 PM (No. 378305)
South Dakota ??? That's flyover country. I doubt those hick farmers could even spell pandemic. Sarcasm off
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 1:49:53 PM (No. 378306)
The article states:
they will treat “up to 100,000 people including outpatient and hospitalized patients with COVID-19, in addition to frontline health care workers, and high-risk individuals who have been exposed to the virus.”
Nowhere does it state that they will deny anyone the treatments or use placebos, just an extremely wide use of the drug to as the Governor said:
..."to assess whether hydroxychloroquine can treat and perhaps even prevent COVID-19,”
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
tsquare 4/13/2020 1:55:35 PM (No. 378312)
The most widely used treatment for mac degeneration, worldwide and in the US, does not have fda approval. If I get this illness, the only ethical ethical way to help me will be to prescribe drugs that have tested around the world for safety and for which some real promise of cure has bern demonstrated, fda can pound sand. Placebos for lethal illnesses are truly unethical.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
volksford 4/13/2020 2:04:58 PM (No. 378319)
Great move Governor , by the way.........I would be happy to shelter in place with you.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Texpub 4/13/2020 2:09:02 PM (No. 378322)
The way the article is written states that there will be enough hydroxychloroquine for all the people in South Dakota who need it. The article also states that the NIH has started a clinical trial that will be using placebos, but that clinical trial does not appear to be associated with South Dakota as I read it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 2:25:16 PM (No. 378329)
#4, yeah, poor dumb farmers even got the pandemic wrong, not enough people got sick......totally kidding, but that is probably what a lot of the "Elites" think.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/13/2020 2:36:18 PM (No. 378332)
Bravo to this Governor. Leading the way! God bless her.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/13/2020 2:39:00 PM (No. 378333)
I applaud the governor. The possible side effects of the hydroxychloroquine are published, for all to see. As adults, we should be able to make the choice to take it, or not.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/13/2020 2:43:45 PM (No. 378340)
Great, we've have to give Dr. Fauci his data!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
nina584 4/13/2020 2:54:06 PM (No. 378344)
No randomized trial. She is giving out to high risk populations. Smart since among the patients that take it regularly there have been no reported cases of the virus.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 2:58:26 PM (No. 378347)
#13, do you have a good source for that information? I have been hoping someone would be checking to see if patients using the drug for other things were being prevented from getting this, haven't found any source.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 4/13/2020 3:05:12 PM (No. 378352)
#4 needs to stick to eating out of Bloomberg's garden. Those "hick farmers" you make fun of are probably a lotb better educated than you.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
smcchk 4/13/2020 3:05:47 PM (No. 378353)
It is best to give to patients before Day 5 but whatever - any information is good at this point of ridiculousness in not using our only possible treatment because people hate the President.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rubygram 4/13/2020 3:43:02 PM (No. 378365)
Somebody please enlighten me. I do not get the mystery of this drug. It is also called Plaquenil and has been used, successfully I might add, for years for people with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
The Remnants 4/13/2020 4:12:02 PM (No. 378387)
Sounds like a pretty intelligent idea to me, and you can get some really good data not like some of the fuzzy stuff we have been getting. Besides, it sounds like it has already been proven to be safe and effective with patients throughout Europe and the U.S. Fauci and company just want us to use Gates' vaccines.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/13/2020 4:29:55 PM (No. 378403)
But Wait! They say there are Side Effects!
The thing about death - there are no side effects.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
kono 4/13/2020 4:38:56 PM (No. 378415)
Receiving FDA approval (ref #6) involves double-blind tests including 'control' groups, some of whom receive placebos.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
kono 4/13/2020 4:42:31 PM (No. 378419)
(Either #15 didn't see #4's "sarcasm" flag, or doesn't get what sarcasm is.)
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 4:43:38 PM (No. 378423)
Read closer, #15, he was poking fun at the elites, and was supporting those farmers.
Note the "sarcasm off", often written here as "/s off".
The lack of facial expressions and tone of voice makes some parts of communications more
difficult.
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#1 - Smarter than whitmer; better-looking, too.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
laurenc 4/13/2020 5:54:24 PM (No. 378502)
How long before the media starts attacking this governor as a brain dead shill for President Trump? I'm guessing not very long at all...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/13/2020 6:42:17 PM (No. 378528)
I work in a COVID ICU. I haven't seen one person benefit from this drug with COVID. I'm am sure one died because of toxic side-effects of this drug. The canard that this is a miracle drug is the usually fake news hysteria aimed at ratings, not information. Studies are desperately needed. Good studies. I have been around long enough to see many drugs touted as miracles and unethical to withohold them pending studies only to find out later that the drugs kill, not heal. If I were sick with COVID and facing death, would I take this drug? Only if it was in a well designed scientific study, not some willy-nilly Democrat dreamed up anti-Trump, fake news hit job. And yes the media is hyping the drug for political purposes, not scientific purposes.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/13/2020 8:51:00 PM (No. 378611)
give me the services of a dozen nerdy graduate assistants, and access to the med9ical records of those ny city area residents who were taking the drug in question for lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, and I could give a pretty reasoned opinion as to the preventive efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for kung flu.
And I could do it in one month,. tops.
And I'm a retired Business professor, not a science guy. drs. Fauci and Birx couyld do it in a week or less.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
nina584 4/13/2020 9:24:41 PM (No. 378635)
#25 what toxic side effects have you seen? I have prescribed this drug for more than 30 years and have seen none. Your testimony here contradicts thousands of patients an doctors.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
proximo 4/14/2020 12:11:51 AM (No. 378740)
The media is hyping hydroxychloroquine??? Quite the contrary. Since Trump first brought it to the public's attention, the media has been on a jihad against it. On the other hand, doctors in the field have been "hyping" it based on "anecdotal" results seen in the field with its use.
You're going to wait for a clinical trial while your life is on the line? B.S.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
ariel 4/14/2020 3:24:48 PM (No. 379522)
Mar 23, 2020 · New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Sunday that New York State has acquired 70,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine, 10,000 doses of zithromax and 750,000 doses of chloroquine to implement drug trials to treat patients with coronavirus, which will begin on Tuesday.
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So, the Republican governor of South Dakota is doing the whole world a huge favor, in addition to her own people.
In contrast, due to TDS, two Dem governors quickly banned the use of the drug in their states. And Cuomo has banned it's use outside of hospitals in NY.
Bravo to Gov. Noem. Clearly a smart lady.