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One of the French responded: “Paris is on red alert.”
A hydroxychloroquine it is normally used to treat diseases such as arthritis, while chloroquine is used to treat malria.
By rejecting the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, and affirm, through social networks, that the federal government has no intention of buying the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac in collaboration with the Institute Butantan, President Jair bolsonaro (no party) used a technical argument to justify his position.
Bolsonaro said that before the population is available, the vaccine must be scientifically tested by the Ministry of Health and certified by the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa). He added that it does not justify “a multi-million dollar financial contribution on a drug that has not even passed its testing phase” and “that the Brazilian people will not be a guinea pig.”
However, since the beginning of the pandemic, Bolsonaro has neglected and harassed scientific arguments and studies in defense of the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19, despite the lack of evidence of the efficacy of the drugs. The statements on Wednesday, claiming the observance of scientific rules to reject the Chinese vaccine, surprised experts and the scientific community.
“It remains to learn, choose leaders who start from environmental science, global warming, reproduction, evolution, etc. Ask partisan science that also takes care of your health. And throw their health in the trash in favor of rhetoric, “said the biologist and researcher. Attila Iamarino posted on Twitter.
Marcelo gomes, a public health researcher at Fiocruz, also commented on the contradiction in Bolsonaro’s positions. “In this political struggle with the AstraZeneca / Oxford / Fiocruz vaccine (” from Bolsonaro “) x the Sinovac / Butant vaccine (” from Dria “), there is a winner and a clear loser: the virus (v) and the Brazilian people (d). playing with our lives “, accused the scientist in social networks.
In defense of chloroquine, even without scientific proof
Study published in May by the scientific journal The lancet led the World Health Organizationwho) discontinue studies with chloroquine. The Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases (OSE) posted a note stating that the use of hydroxychloroquine should be discontinued at any stage of COVID-19 treatment. The SBI warning is based on the results of two studies in the United States and Canada that found that using chloroquine in the early stages of the disease had no results.
In July, Bolsonaro displayed a box of the drug on the table and even took it in his hands during a live Facebook speech. At the time, the president was confused and stumbled over words when talking about the remedy, but made his position in defense of the remedy clear.
“If you have no alternative, why ban? “Ah, there is no scientific proof that it is effective.” But there is also no scientific proof that there is no effective proof. It’s not that you don’t, or that you don’t, ”Bolsonaro said.
The president also revealed that he took the vermfuge nitazoxadine, which, like chloroquine, has no scientific proof that it can be used to treat coronavirus.
On July 22, when he announced that he tested positive for COVID-19, the CEO said he was taking hydroxychloroquine and said he felt better after using the drug.
“I took chloroquine and azithromycin. Yesterday (Monday 07/22) they gave me the first pill and I confess that after midnight I managed to feel an improvement. At 5am, I took the second chloroquine pill and am perfectly fine. The reaction was almost immediate. A few hours later, I was already feeling great, ”he said.
In an event held in August at the Palcio do Planalto called “Brazil winning COVID-19”, the president returned to defend medicine. At that time, the country reached almost 115 thousand deaths from COVID-19. At the ceremony, Bolsonaro gathered enthusiastic doctors of hydroxychloroquine and members of the government in defense of the use of the compound to combat the disease.
“I know it doesn’t (scientific proof). As I always mentioned the Korean War where soldiers arrived wounded, there was no one to donate blood, and they ended up getting coconut water in their veins. And it worked. If I had waited for scientific evidence, what in the future could be seen that many lives could have been saved with coconut water, “he said.
* intern under the supervision of assistant editor Vera Schmitz
