Special Report: Bolsonaro bets 'miraculous cure' for COVID-19 can save Brazil - and his life

[riversedge]

Source: Reuters




July 8, 2020 / 5:06 PM / Updated 2 hours ago



RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has gone all in on hydroxychloroquine to help his coronavirus-ravaged country beat COVID-19. He has pushed his government to make the malaria drug widely available and encouraged Brazilians to take it, both to prevent the disease and to treat it.

Now the far-right populist is putting his convictions to the ultimate test: Bolsonaro on Tuesday announced that he had tested positive for the disease and was taking hydroxychloroquine.

Bolsonaro said in a televised interview that he had taken an initial two doses, in conjunction with the antibiotic azithromycin, and felt better almost immediately. His only regret, he said, was not using it sooner.

“If I had taken hydroxychloroquine preventively, I would still be working” instead of heading into quarantine, Bolsonaro said.

Later, in a separate video, he gulped down a third pill. He said he was aware of other treatments, but noted none of them had been proven to work.

“I trust in hydroxychloroquine,” he said. “And you?”

Bolsonaro’s illness is a potent symbol of his government’s botched response to the outbreak. More than 1.7 million people in Brazil have tested positive for coronavirus and nearly 68,000 have died. Only the United States has performed worse. ..................................

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-hydroxychlo/special-report-bolsonaro-bets-miraculous-cure-for-covid-19-can-save-brazil-and-his-life-idUSKBN249396

[denem]

1. COVID gets critical in week 2

... watch that space.

[oasis]

2. Could be a ruse to cash in on a hydroxy-c stockpile that Bolsonaro

and his North American partners have been sitting on. We have only this crook's word that he has the virus.

[soothsayer]

3. Let him keep gulping them down

[mpcamb]

4. Did trump sell it to him?

Didn't Donald or Jared try to corner the market in Feb. or May

[Maxheader]

9. Yeah , I thought I heard cheetox ..

Stood to gain $$ .. instrumental in the supply chain...

What is it we will start seeing in Brazil, unfortunately , increased

heart attacks, or, cardiac arrest? Hopefully the people are smarter

than stumpy's minions...

[gab13by13]

5. Here's my take,

He never tested positive, and he isn't taking hydrocloroxidine. He's a Trump clone how can anyone believe him?

[hamsterjill]

18. You aren't the only one.

That’s my take, too.

[Warpy]

20. Exactly

and I've got a pro tip for him, anything that requires a miracle isn't going to work.

The reason they were discarded here was due to the association with long q-t syndrome, something that occurs with both choloquine drugs and azithromycin. The combination was particularly lethal.

I give it 50-50 odds that he either hasn't tested positive or he has and he's a true believer with a whopping case of placebo effect. The problem with the latter is that it isn't going to last through the second week of this illness, when microclots are going to hit a heart that is already compromised by the drugs he's insisting on taking.

His best hope in that case is that it really is a placebo effect and that he's been given sugar pills by doctors who can presumably read about the real drugs and their lethality in Covid patients.

In any case, this disease has a weird course in a lot of people, a few days of feeling wretched followed by a day of feeling like you've beaten it and then wham! back it comes. My case of presumptive was like that, the fever spiking and breaking for a full two weeks, the cough lasting for six.

[rockfordfile]

21. I agree. The guy is a pos fascist

[Laelth]

6. Magical thinking.

This proves it. Brazil has a Cluster B personality-disordered President TOO!

-Laelth

[DFW]

7. I posted this before, but once more:

If the treatment helps, then good for him.
If not, then good for Brazil.

[Laelth]

8. LOL. Well said. n/t

-Laelth

[usajumpedtheshark]

10. He should embrace all of Rump's cure

and wash those pills down with some bleach will shoving a uv light into an orifice.

[47of74]

13. sounds good to me

[gab13by13]

11. I don't believe that Trump took hydrocloroxidine

I don't believe that Bolsonaro tested positive. I don't believe that Bolsonaro is taking hydrocloroxidine.

[LisaL]

12. We stock piled so much of this so-called cure.

[samsingh]

14. i don't believe he tested positive or has taken hydro.

but how many Brazilians will die because of his lies.

[Hugin]

15. Yep, color me skeptical after this announcement.

It's too convenient.

The only thing this series of events indicates is the Mandarin Quid-pro-quo has this joker on speed-dial in the tweet-o-phone.

[NCjack]

16. If he has Covid-19 and is taking HCQ, then I have a question for him:

Are you a high stakes gambler?

[Javaman]

17. just like the orange asshole promising miraculous cures to save us all

aka full of shit.

[lagomorph777]

19. It's delicious if you stir it up with some Clorox. He should chug it by the gallon.