Orwellian “Doublethink”: A New York doctor would not use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 because it is against “The Party Line” (March 29, 2020).

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Daniel Griffin, MD, used to give an impression of a sharp infection disease specialist. His involvement in propaganda activities apparently clouds his mind. This may be dangerous to his COVID-19 patients.

Griffin is at the frontline of fighting against COVID-19 in one of New York’s hospitals. In a podcast that came out on March 29, 2020, Griffin gave several interesting updates on COVID-19. However, Griffin was again critical of the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 “because one of the patients in the most recent study died”. Then, Griffin said that some data showed that it was ok to use steroids again in treating COVID-19.

The most recent study that Griffin refers to is the study by the group of Didier Raoult ( Gautret, 2020 (29)). The authors showed that a combination of hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic was effective in clearing viral load in a group of 80 patients with the exception of one.

Gautret (the group of Didier Raoult), 2020 (29):

Virus cultures from patient respiratory samples were negative in 97.5% patients at Day5. This allowed patients to rapidly de discharge from highly contagious wards with a mean length of stay of five days.

It is noteworthy that the only patient who did not survive in the study by Gautret, 2020 (29), was an 86 years old male who was on corticosteroids from the day of the onset of the symptoms.

Supplementary Table 1. Detail of patients who were transferred to the intensive care unit or who died Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Supplementary Table 1. Detail of patients who were transferred to the intensive care unit or who died Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Figure 2. SARS-CoV-2 culture from nasopharyngeal samples overtime. Black bars: number of patients with available results, grey bars: number of patients with positive culture, solid line: percentage of patients with a positive culture, dashed line: polynomial regression curve. Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Figure 2. SARS-CoV-2 culture from nasopharyngeal samples overtime. Black bars: number of patients with available results, grey bars: number of patients with positive culture, solid line: percentage of patients with a positive culture, dashed line: polynomial regression curve. Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Clinical status at admission. Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Clinical status at admission. Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Treatment and outcome. Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).
Treatment and outcome. Source: Gautrer, 2020 (29).

The study by Gautrer (the group of Didier Raoult), 2020 (29), showed positive results. Hydroxychloroquine is toxic, but COVID-19 turned out to be a deadly disease. Staggering mortality rates of 5 to 10% in many European countries show that doctors do not know how to treat viral pneumonia effectively. Why is Daniel Griffin opposed to the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19?

Daniel Griffin is involved in very dubious HIV research and in diverse “educational activities”. These educational activities very often involve outright propaganda. Separating information and propaganda of the Party Line is a challenge when you listen to Griffin.

Daniel Griffin is involved in very dubious HIV research and in different "educational activities". These educational activities very often involve outright propaganda. Separating information and propaganda of the Party Line is a challenge when you listen to Griffin.
Daniel Griffin is involved in very dubious HIV research and in different “educational activities”. These educational activities very often involve outright propaganda. Separating information and propaganda of the Party Line is a challenge when you listen to Griffin.
Propagandist Hotez is an associate of Daniel Griffin. Daniel Griffin is involved in very dubious HIV research and in different "educational activities". These educational activities very often involve outright propaganda. Separating information and propaganda of the Party Line is a challenge when you listen to Griffin.
Propagandist Hotez is an associate of Daniel Griffin. Daniel Griffin is involved in very dubious HIV research and in different “educational activities”. These educational activities very often involve outright propaganda. Separating information and propaganda of the Party Line is a challenge when you listen to Griffin.
"Doublethinking": A New York doctor would not use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 because it is against "The Party Line" (March 29, 2020)." Daniel Griffin, MD, seems like a sharp infection disease specialist. His involvement in HIV research and propaganda activities apparently cloud his mind.
“Doublethinking”: A New York doctor would not use hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 because it is against “The Party Line” (March 29, 2020).” Daniel Griffin, MD, used to give an impression of a sharp infection disease specialist. His involvement in propaganda activities apparently clouds his mind. This may be dangerous to his COVID-19 patients.

An update (April 25, 2020): “Orwellian doublethink” of New York doctors-propagandists may have contributed to the catastrophic COVID-19 mortality in New York.

Catastrophic COVID-19 mortality rates among the hospitalized males in the New York City area: above 80 years old – 60.6%, 70-70 years old – 35.8%, 60-69 years old – 18.7%, 50-59 years old – 12.2%, 20-49 years old – around 7%.

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References can be found in the original post linked below:

Our notes on the “Corona Virus” SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes (COVID-19).

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