Macron meets with controversial chloroquine doctor touted by Trump

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French President Emmanuel Macron met with professor Didier Raoult, who has been pushing for a controversial chloroquine-based treatment for coronavirus

Raoult has been touting the use of an antimalarial drug as a treatment for COVID-19,

results were based on a small sample of patients and not up to scientific standards for published studies — drawing criticism from the medical community. “A visit doesn't legitimize a scientific protocol, a visit marks interest by the head of state, for the executive, for clinical trials, whether they are promising or not,” the official said.Officials in Macron's office denied he was getting ahead of the results of those clinical trials, bowing to popular pressure or politicizing the issue despite Raoult's lightning rod profile.

 

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What's so controversial other than the refusal to accept it works with a sector of the infected? Stupid politicking is not conducive to good science. Keep your idiotic politics out of the scientific community. Enough with the GlobalWarmingManipulationOfData

I thought Macron was more sensible than that. Disappointing.

Controversial? Only to deranged liberal media.

They actually withdrew support for study 1, which was then superseded by study 2 (expanded to 80 patients). Now, we’re talking about study 3 (1061 patients), for which only the abstract and baseline table have been released — and of which your article makes no mention.

Trump embraces conspiracy theories. This is telling... Trump is impulsive & impatient. He does not like where the economy is right now because he's been USING it as his 're-election' ploy. So he wants people back to work without testing endangering LIVES for his 'economy' image.

A family friend of ours husband died of the corona virus and she was in critical condition and they gave her chloroquine plus z-pac and it saved her life. I know that is only one person and it may not be effective with others but I'm glad they tried it.

That's shocking, very disappointed that Macron would give this quack any credibility. Dr. Raoult has been discredited by all serious researchers so far.

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