Despite many issues surrounding the data collected for the study, their use and the company that did the statistical work, Surgisphere, both the World Health Organization and France reacted immediately. WHO stopped a study of the drug and it took French Health Minister Olivier Véran only one day after the publication by The Lancet to ask the French High Council for Public Health (HCSP) to decide whether hydroxychloroquine should continue to be allowed to be prescribed in hospitals to COVID-19 patients. HCSP came back with its answer on May 26: all prescriptions in this context should be stopped, it said.

Serious doubts had immediately been cast on the validity of the Lancet study in various countries, leading to the medical journal's publishing of an "Expression of concern" on June 3.

The World Health Organization has since decided to resume its study. No such thing has happened yet in France where one of the world's top specialists on infectious diseases, Prof. Didier Raoult, has been targeted by Véran as "irresponsible" and "f…king things up" in repeated attacks against his promoting hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin as a treatment for COVID-19.

Prof. Raoult of Marseille said the Chinese coronavirus' game was up on February 25

This is just the latest step in a strange sequence of events that had its climax in February, just before the coronavirus pandemic went into full swing in Europe. It was at that point that Pr Didier Raoult of the Marseille special university hospital unit for in infectious diseases, IHU Méditerranée Infection, announced that a Chinese study had shown that 500 mg of hydroxychloroquine taken for 10 days when prescribed as soon as patients were tested positive had "spectacular results" against the virus.

It should have been no surprise, since that same drug had been found to be effective against SARS-CoV-1 (the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome linked to a coronavirus outbreak in 2003). In his video dated February 25, Raoult smilingly explained that the new Chinese coronavirus had been beaten, not by a vaccine that will take years to develop, but by a well-known drug that has been prescribed for various conditions for decades, and that COVID-19 "is probably the easiest respiratory infection of all to treat."

But that is not what happened. Instead, in France Raoult was ridiculed despite his status as a world-famous specialist of infectious disease. And in many countries, treating COVID-19 patients with chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine was discouraged by health authorities, and in many cases was even severely restricted.

Why was hydroxychloroquine severely restricted in many countries?

Why? This is a difficult question to answer if one is prepared to believe that public health authorities and political leaders actually have the public's best interests in mind, be it with the recommendations given to COVID-19 patients, or with their decision to "stop the world" and totally disrupt its economic equilibrium through a lockdown aimed not at isolating those who are contagious, but at keeping healthy people from the streets and preventing them from worshipping, earning their living, travelling, and so on.

The situation and its developments in France, including a number of facts that appear hard to explain as well as the frank hostility with which Prof. Didier Raoult was treated, indeed raise serious questions about the motivations of our civic leaders... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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