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America’s Frontline Doctors successfully challenged the narrative that HCQ was unsafe. In
response to our efforts, many states were forced to revert back to the pre-COVID rules of
no restriction on HCQ. We have also made it possible for any person to obtain HCQ legally
by consulting with a telemedicine physician. We did this because Americans are dying and
we felt an obligation to help, and also because we care deeply about our profession and
watching the media and politicians lie to the American people that a drug was unsafe when
it was not unsafe was unacceptable to us as practicing physicians.
We are here for the same reason today.
We did not think it bold to stand before the American people and declare that a drug that
has been used hundreds of billions of times, by everyone from newborns to the extreme
elderly by the healthy and the critically ill, all over the world for decades was safe. We
thought it was self-evident.
Likewise, we do not think it is bold to stand before the American people and declare that an
investigational biological agent that did not exist four months ago, that has only been given
to a few thousand people, and not tested at all on the elderly, not tested at all in women
who are or intend to become pregnant, should NOT be considered safe. We think this too is
self-evident.
It is impossible to say that a drug with an extensively documented and strong safety record
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for fifty years is dangerous but a brand new medication is safe.
17 US Food & Drug Administration. FDA Adverse Events Reporting System (FAERS) Public
Dashboard. https://fis.fda.gov/sense/app/d10be6bb-494e-4cd2-82e4-0135608ddc13/sheet/7a47a261-
d58b-4203-a8aa-6d3021737452/state/analysis
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