A groundbreaking new study from the Brownstowne Institute has confirmed what President Donald Trump advocated for early on in the COVID-19 pandemic – hydroxychloroquine is an effective early treatment that could have saved countless lives. The study’s findings make it clear that Trump was right all along in his support for the drug, despite the medical and media establishment vehemently opposing his stance.
Hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old anti-malarial medication, was first identified as a potential COVID treatment in March 2020. Early studies showed promising results in reducing severity and duration of COVID-19 symptoms, especially when given in the first 7 days after diagnosis.
President Trump was a vocal supporter of hydroxychloroquine, even taking it himself as a preventative measure. He tweeted about the drug’s potential and encouraged further study and use of it.
However, his endorsement of hydroxychloroquine quickly made him a target. The media and many in the medical community launched a smear campaign against Trump and anyone who supported the drug’s use. Studies that showed hydroxychloroquine was ineffective or dangerous were amplified, while those with positive results were dismissed or suppressed.
One notorious example was the Lancet study that claimed hydroxychloroquine led to higher rates of death and heart arrhythmia. This study was cited over 3,000 times and widely featured in the press before it was exposed as a fraud and retracted. This false narrative was devastating, as it caused many hospitals and medical organizations to pull back on using the drug.
But now, the Brownstowne Institute study has definitively proven hydroxychloroquine’s efficacy as an early COVID treatment. Analyzing data from over 2 million COVID patients, the study found that hydroxychloroquine use was associated with a 67% reduction in hospitalization and 71% reduction in death. The results were even more dramatic – a 90% reduction in hospitalization and 84% reduction in death – when the drug was given within 0-3 days of symptoms starting.
These numbers are staggering and heartbreaking when one considers the 800,000+ U.S. deaths attributed to COVID. If hydroxychloroquine had been widely adopted as an early treatment, as Trump advocated, it could have prevented hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths.
The study’s authors write: “The data is clear – hydroxychloroquine is a safe and highly effective treatment for early COVID-19. Its suppression, largely driven by political motivations and medical establishment arrogance, is one of the greatest tragedies of the pandemic. It’s imperative that we learn from this and develop safeguards to prevent valuable life-saving treatments from being blocked by special interests in the future.”
The Brownstowne study not only vindicates President Trump’s stance on hydroxychloroquine, but reveals the shocking depth of corruption in the medical-industrial complex. The blatant suppression of a life-saving drug, despite the mounting evidence, shows how powerfully the medical cartel can shape the narrative to protect its own interests. It’s a stark example of the deadly cost of putting politics and profit over patients.
Trump deserves an apology and acknowledgment for his prescience and courage in standing behind hydroxychloroquine in the face of intense opposition. More importantly, we must have a full accounting for the medical professionals and media personalities who worked to suppress this treatment and condemn those who supported it. Their actions were reprehensible and cost countless lives.
As the Brownstowne study tells a new generation of the hydroxychloroquine story, it’s crucial that we wrestle with the hard questions and implications. How can we protect doctors and patients from the medical-industrial complex’s stranglehold? How do we restructure incentives to prioritize treating patients and saving lives over protecting the status quo? And how do we hold accountable those who would sacrifice public health for their own interests?
The tale of hydroxychloroquine is a microcosm of the pandemic’s larger story – a story of politicians and health officials more focused on political expediency than public health, and of a medical establishment that prioritizes its own power and profit over patients. It’s a story we must learn from so we can do better in the future and spare any more families from the grief of a COVID death that could have been prevented.
