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Originally Posted by SailinAway

Questions:

(1) What is the source of this graph? It doesn't appear in the Newsweek opinion piece. Please add a link for the chart.

(2) What exactly does the graph show? The title says "Country CFR by HCQ Usage." Does that mean (a) fatality rate in patients who received HCQ specifically for treatment of COVID-19? Or (b) COVID-19 fatality rate in countries that use HCQ for treatment of ANY illness (e.g.) malaria, regardless of whether the COVID-19 patient received HCQ or not? Or some other meaning?

Your question #2 has an abbreviated "Cliff Notes" version appearing below, with previous annotations described: https://aapsonline.org/wp/wp-content...020/06/cfr.jpg

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More support has appeared in the form of a court injunction to release government-stored huge quantities of HCQ.

"AAPS files with the court 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. Last week the FDA even misled the public by falsely stating that HCQ should not be used to treat COVID-19, when multiple studies show its benefits, and thousands of patients have been successfully treated worldwide.

“The interference with public access to hydroxychloroquine is disrupting our political processes,” notes AAPS General Counsel Andrew Schlafly. “Perhaps that is what some want, in order to deter Americans from attending political conventions and even voting, but it is unconstitutional for the FDA to infringe on these constitutional rights by blocking access to this safe medication.”

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Member Newbiesaukee may know of my most recent doctor—Dr. Bruce Boros (ret.). Or Dr. Hyman Merlin of years past? Another, whose name escapes me, was a teaching doctor at the University of Miami. He put me on a life-long prescription of statins—starting with Mevacor—which has probably saved the day.

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So who should appear in favor of HCQ but my own erudite Florida medical specialist—above, now retired. (And thusly allowed to speak freely—a local print-newspaper reports this week):

[We] spoke at length with Dr. Boros on July 29 and asked him to explain his statements about Big Pharma and Fauci, who has headed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and has become the nation’s authority on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Boros, who was incensed by the vitriol of comments posted by former patients, neighbors and friends, repeated his accusation that Fauci is a fraud “because his NIAID is taking money from groups like Gilead Sciences, a drug company that makes remdesivir,” which, Dr. Boros said, is the only drug Fauci has endorsed by name.

“He’s never mentioned any other drugs that doctors in other countries are finding success with, including Ivermectin, which has been around for 40 years, only costs $4 a pill and is used to treat pinworms, lice and scabies in children, because there’s no money in Ivermectin for Big Pharma,” Dr. Boros told [this weekly]. “But I’m getting raked over the coals for wanting to try alternative medications that have been shown to work in people in other countries.”

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The zeal of SailingAway is appreciated, and details are certain to be thoroughly checked and researched.

To your question #1, the (missing) link to the graph you saw appears in post #1.

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Dr. Boros, on social media, apparently has a low opinion of Dr. Fauci!