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turbinetree

(24,631 posts)
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:29 AM Apr 2020

GOP senator who pushed 'miracle' drug rejects study showing it may lead to death

By Emily Singer -April 21, 2020 4:46 PM

Texas Sen. John Cornyn questioned a study this week that showed a drug Trump has been pushing to treat COVID-19 actually led to more deaths.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Tuesday questioned a study by U.S. researchers that found a malaria drug Donald Trump has been pushing as a "miracle" cure for COVID-19 is no miracle at all — and might lead to death for some patients who take it.

"How about real clinical trials?" Cornyn tweeted, calling into question the validity of the government-funded study that found the drug, hydroxychloroquine, offered no apparent benefits.

The researchers also found that more patients who received the drug died than those who received routine care for the disease.

"The study was posted on an online site for researchers and has been submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine, but has not been reviewed by other scientists," Cornyn added, suggesting that it was not valid.

Cornyn himself has touted smaller — and more widely criticized — studies previously to push hydroxychloroquine.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/john-cornyn-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-donald-trump-gop-senate-texas-covid-19/

Well Barr and Cornhole..................your "guy" was Impeached and can't be trusted................and he is not a doctor..........

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GOP senator who pushed 'miracle' drug rejects study showing it may lead to death (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2020 OP
Sounds to me like someone invested heavily in this snake oil after Agolf Twitler told him to buy SoonerPride Apr 2020 #1
Yepper spot on.................... turbinetree Apr 2020 #2
It's generic greenjar_01 Apr 2020 #5
The manufacturing process may be quasi-proprietary DBoon Apr 2020 #12
My exact reaction. Somebody's "safe" investment is tanking. lagomorph777 Apr 2020 #8
And that's just one of my asshole Senators - I've got an asshole Rep, Gov, Lt Gov, Atty Gen ... marble falls Apr 2020 #3
Sen. Johnny Cornhole ResistantAmerican17 Apr 2020 #4
With Cornhole, you can always smell the stink of grifting. He makes no empirical sense. n/t MFGsunny Apr 2020 #6
Cornyn is a disaster. This is actually the fourth or fifth (small) study Mike 03 Apr 2020 #7
Texas is rife with assholes like cornhole. I have to live here. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #9
This. To infinity and beyond. ResistantAmerican17 Apr 2020 #16
I've already resigned myself to them getting in my face. cayugafalls Apr 2020 #17
Now all republicans are doctors too? There's an obvious and blatant conflict of interest in that... SWBTATTReg Apr 2020 #10
One of the death squaders bluestarone Apr 2020 #11
Let him take it then! Luciferous Apr 2020 #13
Even if it doesn't work drumpf already cashed in Takket Apr 2020 #14
"How about real clinical trials?" gratuitous Apr 2020 #15
Well, That Would Been Inconvenient! ProfessorGAC Apr 2020 #21
Waiting for Dr. Cornyn's scientific review of the study. Not likely to happen. NCjack Apr 2020 #18
CYA Baby!!!! Wellstone ruled Apr 2020 #19
Cornyn, How about a REAL clinical trial before pushing the drug. LizBeth Apr 2020 #20

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
1. Sounds to me like someone invested heavily in this snake oil after Agolf Twitler told him to buy
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:31 AM
Apr 2020

Now he's holding a bunch of worthless stock.

DBoon

(22,284 posts)
12. The manufacturing process may be quasi-proprietary
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:48 AM
Apr 2020

A competitor can't just start manufacturing a drug, there are regulatory hurdles that make market entry difficult

This is how they are able to increase the price of insulin and get away with it

marble falls

(56,353 posts)
3. And that's just one of my asshole Senators - I've got an asshole Rep, Gov, Lt Gov, Atty Gen ...
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:37 AM
Apr 2020

My wife's mom is the only reason I'm in Texas these days.

Traffic's back to normal. But more people are wearing masks at the HEB. The two ferals I feed needed kitty food. I'd like to think I see more birds because of it.

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
7. Cornyn is a disaster. This is actually the fourth or fifth (small) study
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:43 AM
Apr 2020

to show no benefit (but the first to show actual harm).

China (Journal of Zhejiang University study)
France (France's second study after the first paper was retracted)
Brazil EDIT: study halted after deaths
VA study

I think I'm missing another one, perhaps a study in the northeast US.

cayugafalls

(5,629 posts)
17. I've already resigned myself to them getting in my face.
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 12:50 PM
Apr 2020

For the foreseeable future, I will have to wear a mask, gloves and eye protection when shopping and I will screech like holy hell if some asshole gets in my face. I am done playing nice.

They have been brainwashed to believe we are evil or animals, well just try me, assholes. I've had it with their bullshit. I may be a pacifist, but a few choice words said correctly will have them shitting in their pants as they run away like the little babies they are.

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
10. Now all republicans are doctors too? There's an obvious and blatant conflict of interest in that...
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 11:47 AM
Apr 2020

rump owns supposedly owns shares in the company that sells that stuff, despite the fact that it is killed people too, who took the so called wonder drug after reading about it being a cure all for the CV. It killed them.

I guess that this is the so called republican death panel, that does the recommending of drugs that people should take for certain diseases.

And the Country that exports the drug (India) actually stopped the drug from being exported from India after worldwide outcries for this drug multiplied. Problem is, the drug will kill (and has) for other than the purpose it was made for (Malaria) and too, it will severely impact worldwide Malaria cases (in the millions) from getting the drug therapies that they need.

Cornyn is one of the top republican idiots too, I don't think you could get dumber than him, but I'm sure a lot of them in the background of Cornyn will try.

Takket

(21,421 posts)
14. Even if it doesn't work drumpf already cashed in
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 12:01 PM
Apr 2020

He was pushing it because he had business interests in it even though there was basically nothing proving its efficacy. So under that guise the Feds bought huge quantities of it. Drumpf could care less if it works he just needed the excuse to buy it up to line his pockets under the guise of being “prepared” if it became that standard of care. It will all probably rot in some warehouse now.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
15. "How about real clinical trials?"
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 12:04 PM
Apr 2020

That's a very good question, Senator. Why weren't you asking it when Needy Amin was touting this "miracle" cure because he needed to take some of the pressure and attention off his lethally inept response to the pandemic? How many additional deaths can we trace to Trump's reckless statements, buttressed by your all-too-credulous support? How will you answer for those deaths?

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
21. Well, That Would Been Inconvenient!
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 04:34 PM
Apr 2020

Politically they needed to hope for a magic bullet.
That need hasn't gone away.
It's convenient cherry picking. They've got nothing else.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
18. Waiting for Dr. Cornyn's scientific review of the study. Not likely to happen.
Wed Apr 22, 2020, 01:31 PM
Apr 2020

He doesn't have the time to study the science and get a degree that indicates he has knowledge in the relevant area. Just another Repuke firing bullets out of his ass.

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