A viral video showing a group of Doctor led be a Houston-based doctor Stella Immanuel claiming that antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is a cure for covid-19 has been remove by Facebook
The video which was even tweet by President Donald Trump before taken down had been watched 17 million times
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The video which shows Dr Immanuel and other calling themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors”, standing on the steps of Capitol Hill labelled studies casting doubt on the effectiveness of the antimalarial drug as “fake science.”
Immanuel claimed that she is using the antimalarial drug because of a 2005 study, published by the National Institutes of Health, which claims Chloroquine, a more toxic version of hydroxychloroquine, can prevent the spread of coronavirus in cells.
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According to her, she put herself and other staff on hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis, and that she treated more than 300 patients and “none of them died.”
Yet last month, the NIH halted a clinical trial of the drug, saying that while a study showed that treatment caused no harm, the drug was “very unlikely to be beneficial to hospitalized patients with COVID-19.”
The NIH also advises against using the drug as a treatment for coronavirus.
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The video has since been removed from Facebook and YouTube, with Facebook’s policy communications director Andy Stone tweeting: “We removed it for sharing false information about cures and treatments for COVID-19.”
Source: Forbes