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Dr. Fauci Destroys Fox & Friends’ Efforts To Play Coronavirus Doctors And Promote Unproven Drug

Posted by Brian -5pc on April 04, 2020 · Flag

Fox & Friends tried – and failed miserably – to push Dr. Anthony Fauci into endorsing the experimental coronavirus treatment Dear Leader Donald Trump is promoting, hydroxychloroquine, along with the suggestion that the lack of its widespread use is to blame (i.e. not Trump) for the growing number of deaths in the U.S.

Early in Fauci’s appearance on Fox & Friends yesterday, a graphic was posted saying a Sermo survey of 6,227 doctors found that 37% found hydroxychloroquine to be “the most effective” COVID-19 treatment.

Cohost Steve Doocy added that “only about 23%” of U.S. doctors prescribe it, “far less than in other countries.” He played a clip of (discredited, except on Fox) Dr. Mehmet Oz, who wanted the Friends to ask Fauci about “the Chinese study that we discussed yesterday from Wuhan that reflected statistically significant improvement in recovery from fever, from cough, and in pneumonia as well.”

Fauci was having none of it.

FAUCI: That was not a very robust study. It is still possible that there’s a beneficial effect, but the study that was just quoted on a scale of strength of evidence, that’s not overwhelmingly strong. It’s an indication, a hint of it. But getting back to what you said just a moment ago that x percent, I think you said 37% of doctors feel that it’s beneficial. We don’t operate on how you feel, we operate on what evidence is and data is.

So, although there is some suggestion with the study that was just mentioned by Dr. Oz – I mean granted that there is a suggestion that there’s a benefit there, I think we’ve got to be careful that we don’t make that majestic leap to assume that this is a knockout drug.

We still need to do the kinds of studies that definitively prove whether any intervention, not just this one, any intervention, is truly safe and effective. But when you don’t have that information, it’s understandable  - and I grant that it’s understandable - why people may want to take something anyway, even with the slightest hint of it being effective, and I have no problem with that.

Cohost Brian Kilmeade tried to play doctor, too. He said, “75% of everybody in Spain is taking it with success. French and Chinese take it and their doctors are taking it. There’s a lot of positive things and I will be very curious, Doctor, to see if anyone who’s taken this for lupus or arthritis has gotten the coronavirus. That would be one way to go, the other way to see about this study.”

“Obviously, this is a good drug in many respects for some of the diseases you mentioned,” Fauci replied, “and the one thing we don’t want to happen is that individuals who really need a drug with a proven indication don’t have it available.”

“But I can’t escape getting back to you said 75% of doctors think that it worked,” Fauci continued. “We really don’t care what 75% think it works, that’s not the issue.”

“No, no, no,” Kilmeade said. “I should clarify, because I said Spain, 72% of the doctors in Spain are prescribing it.”

Dr. Fauci “That’s fine. “

Cohost Ainsley Earhardt took her turn. “If that drug is available, if we do have enough of those drugs, why aren’t we giving that to people in New York that are so hit, we’re hit hard here, and people are dying.”

Dr. Fauci “This is an approved drug for another indication, and doctors can, and the FDA has made it very clear that doctors can prescribe it on what we call off label.”

Fox and Trump have repeatedly exaggerated the drug’s effectiveness. It’s caused real harm, too. There were three overdoses of the drug in Nigeria, and an Arizona man died from taking a nonmedical form of chloroquine in the days since the drug entered the conversation surrounding the pandemic.

Fortunately, the attempt by Fox & Friends to get Fauci to go along fell flat on its face.

You can watch it below, from the April 2, 2020 Fox & Friends.

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Bemused commented 2020-04-06 10:50:48 -0400 · Flag
Ah shucks, John.
John McKee commented 2020-04-06 05:38:05 -0400 · Flag
What a welcome surprise it was to find that the string of ‘New Comment’ alerts on my email was not in fact yet another assault on our collective senses by an illiterate spammer, but pearls of wisdom from our beloved Bemused.

If this was a dating site and I wuz down with da kids, I’d be swiping that gal right, left and centre :)
Bemused commented 2020-04-06 04:41:32 -0400 · Flag
Y’gotta give Dr. Fauci credit for having succeeded in not being fired (yet) for cleaning up after Trump during the latter’s daily campaign rally.

Dr. Brix is a lame duck in the pond of misinformation that the daily press briefing on COVID-19 has become. While she stands back with a stony face (no longer nodding, I note), Dr. Fauci steps in with firm resolve to “place the issue in context”: i.e. refute what the President has just said.

Trump is so desperately eager to appear more competent than anybody around him that he’s trying to out-expertise the experts. A triumph of willful ignorance.
Tony Muse commented 2020-04-05 09:58:22 -0400 · Flag
Fauci just might the only person associated with the Trump administration with any dignity and class.
John McKee commented 2020-04-04 19:54:55 -0400 · Flag
I happened to catch this in one of my increasingly rare zoo visits to Planet Fox. The three stooges sounded desperate, almost to the point of hysteria. Something’s gonna shatter there before too many moons have passed.
Mintas Lanxor commented 2020-04-04 15:34:48 -0400 · Flag
This is the fifth major disaster of the 21st c. under the Republican rule, for which they are directly or indirectly responsible:
1. 9/11 – could’ve been prevented had the Bush admin taken seriously the red flags by the intelligence services about a planned Al Qaida attack in the U.S. involving Saudi pilots training in American flight schools.
2. The Iraq War, started under the false pretenses and manufactured evidence about Saddam’s biological weapons stockpile. In reality, Saddam was a de facto ally of ours at the time because he had AlQaida bottled up in the north-eastern part of Iraq.
3. Bush’s totally incompetent handling of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans. His FEMA director at the time was a former president of a horse breeders association with no emergency assistance experience.
4. The Great Recession of 2008, caused by the Bush admin’s deliberate lack of oversight over the financial industry running rampant.
5. Trump didn’t cause COVID, but he did everything by his inaction and incompetence to make it much more serious than it should’ve been. In 2017, he got rid of an agency designed to plan and organize activities related to pandemics. He was briefed by the intelligence agencies in January of this year about the potential disaster that is taking place now, but he and his admin did nothing and kept minimizing it even when it was clear that it has reached our shores.

The Republicans are evil geniuses when it comes to politicking and subverting Constitutional rules for the purpose of keeping power in their hands, but they are total nincompoops and dangerous animals when it comes to protecting the American people.
A Ogilvie commented 2020-04-04 14:52:55 -0400 · Flag
PINO
A Ogilvie commented 2020-04-04 14:43:29 -0400 · Flag
Follow the science, not what the PONI says
w d commented 2020-04-04 13:48:42 -0400 · Flag
Personally, I’m tired of playing nurse-maid to the right wing. They simply don’t care about anything unless it affects them personally. The bobble-heads should know better, but they kneel at the altar of cash cash cash, so what can you expect. But the rubes they are duping, their own very audience, they don’t know better. Perhaps in this case Hannity is right: let the market decide. I can’t try and convince people they need to protect themselves any more. Want to roll the dice with your life? Hey MAGAts, head on down to PetCo and stock up on the Q. JesusTrump says it’s okay, so bottoms up …
w d commented 2020-04-04 13:45:53 -0400 · Flag
I don’t know — maybe it’s time for us to get out of the way of Fox and the right wing. Want to believe the drug works? Then take it. This is America; you are free to make stupid decisions with your life. Want to think this is a hoax? Then load up on the salad bar (or meat bar) and have at it. me? I’m laying low until this blows over. Yes, it’s painful, but the “strongest economy ever” in the galaxy should bounce right back, right?
Ai Ruisheng commented 2020-04-04 13:18:44 -0400 · Flag
The Covid-45 Hoax Virus really sucks as much as the tЯump and Moscow Mitch Patriots Show and nearly as much as every judicial appointment made by these Constitution Surfers.
Eyes On Fox commented 2020-04-04 12:09:08 -0400 · Flag
Oh, it can get worse. Fox News’ Laura Ingraham just retweeted a Federalist article pimping “herd immunity”. It’s the idea that if you just do nothing and let the virus run its course once you reach a 60%-70% infection rate problem solved, coronavirus is beat. I didn’t see a mention of the potential death toll.

https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1246465554975776769

So maybe I shouldn’t bitch about Fox & Fiends pimping potential snake oil. At least they’re still advocating fighting coronavirus.
Eyes On Fox commented 2020-04-04 09:58:38 -0400 · Flag
I should add China gave out HIV drugs to COVID-19 patients too. The few cases I followed survived. Yet apparently Dear Leader didn’t catch Alex Jones (or whoever) shilling that so not a peep from Fox News on that front. Of course, HIV drugs and that gay thing, well, it probably unnerves the MAGA cult. Never mind.
Eyes On Fox commented 2020-04-04 09:51:49 -0400 · Flag
The tremendous take down of the bobbleheads and Dr. Oz I mentioned earlier starts around 2:35. He doesn’t even bat an eye. It’s a classic! Thanks for posting this Ellen.

The root of Fox ‘News’ research on hydroxychloroquine is Dear Leader, renown COVID-19 know-nothing, pimps it.

What I don’t understand is Ainsley Airhead asking ‘why aren’t we giving hydroxychloroquine to people in New York’. Didn’t Gov. Cuomo announce weeks ago a widespread hydroxychloroquine study in his state? TrumpTV™’s entire point seems to be just give it out like candy because Dr. Trump recommends it and we’re kissing his ass by data-mining certain facts to prop him up. MAGA medicine at its greatest – sheesh!








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