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Hydroxychloroquine banned by Ohio pharmacy board for coronavirus treatment

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Starting on Thursday, Ohio pharmacies, clinics and other medical facilities will be prohibited from dispensing or selling the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, to treat the novel coronavirus.

State regulations were updated on Wednesday to reflect the change but also included several caveats, such as if the prescription is for a pet or if it is part of a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of the drug when used to fight COVID-19.

“No prescription for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine may be dispensed by a pharmacist or sold at retail by a licensed terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, including prescriptions for patients residing in Ohio dispensed or sold at retail by nonresident terminal distributors of dangerous drugs as defined in rule 4729:5-8-01 of the Administrative Code, unless the prescription bears a written diagnosis code from the prescriber or a statement indicating its veterinary medical purpose,” the state website read.

“Prescriptions issued for chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for prophylactic use related to COVID-19 or for the treatment of COVID19 are strictly prohibited unless otherwise approved by the board’s executive director in consultation with the board president, at which time a resolution shall issue,” the statement continued. “Upon the effective date of this rule, all previous approvals for the use of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine shall be deemed void and must be approved using the process outlined in this paragraph.”

The Pharmacy Board went on to say the prohibition does not apply to prescriptions “issued as part of a documented institutional review board-approved clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the drugs to treat COVID-19. Prescriptions must include documentation that the patient is enrolled in a clinical trial.”

“Basically, it’s a patient safety issue,” Cameron McNamee, the board’s director of policy and communications told The Columbus Dispatch. “We’re looking at the best science to determine what’s best for the patients of Ohio.” She also said the decision has nothing to do with President Trump’s public support for the treatment.

In June, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reportedly revoked emergency authorization for the drug which had been prescribed to treat the coronavirus. However, Trump and others in the medical community have hailed it as a possible cure for COVID-19.

This news comes just one day after Twitter experienced public backlash for removing a video that showed what appeared to be a group of medical doctors outside the Supreme Court, giving testimonials about how their patient regiments of hydorxycholorquine, zinc and Zithromax had yielded positive results.

A Twitter representative told CNN that the action was taken “in line with” the tech company’s coronavirus misinformation policy.

One of the doctors, who was identified in reports as Dr. Stella Immanuel, claimed she treated more than 350 coronavirus patients — some with diabetes and high blood pressure — and not a single one died after being administered hydroxychloroquine, zinc and zithromax.

The video, which caught fire on social media, was shared by Trump and his son Don Jr. before it was taken down. Trump Jr. was temporarily suspended from Twitter for sharing the video and appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to respond to the tech giant’s decision.

“I’ve been saying this for a long time,” he told Carlson. “I wrote my first book about justice and censorship coming from the big tech giants from California — as homogenous a group as you could possibly imagine. If they are censoring my account, they are censoring others and they’ve been trying to do this for a while.”

“I’ve been talking about the de-platforming, that demonetization of people that are preaching conservative values,” he said. “Because you have to note, this never happens to someone saying something that benefits the left. It only hurts conservatives.”

This news also comes on the same day federal lawmakers grilled big tech CEOs about their policy on political bias and highlighted instances in which conservative voices were silenced for allegedly partisan reasons.

“I’ll cut right to the chase,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio., during the hearing. “Big tech is out to get conservatives….That’s a fact.”

He added, “If I had a nickel for every time I heard it was just a glitch, I wouldn’t be as rich as our witnesses, but I’d be alright.”

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First Covid-19 lawsuit filed against Chinese government in latest sign of bubbling unrest

When Zhang Hai checked his father into a hospital in Wuhan mid-January, he had no idea a novel coronavirus was sweeping through the city.

Chinese authorities had yet to sound the alarm, despite mounting evidence the virus was fatal and transmitting quickly – at least two were dead, and infections had spread abroad. But police pressured doctors to stay silent, and hospitals wouldn’t allow extra protective gear, even as medical staff fell ill.

So Mr Zhang never imagined his father, a 76-year-old veteran, would be infected with Covid-19 at the hospital while having a thigh fracture repaired, and die within a week.

“If the government didn’t cover up the disease in the early stages, my father wouldn’t have died,” Mr Zhang, 50, told the Telegraph. “I am furious… so many people lost their lives during this pandemic. What they did amounts to murder.”

On Wednesday, Mr Zhang filed the first lawsuit in China against the government that seeks restitution for its cover-up of the pandemic, according to lawyers and documents reviewed by the Telegraph.

He’s demanding nearly 2 million yuan (£215,000) from the authorities and the hospital to cover his late father’s government pension had he survived, the psychological toll on the family and funeral expenses, as well as an official apology.

The unprecedented lawsuit poses immense risk for Mr Zhang as it challenges the ruling Communist Party’s official narrative, which denies a cover-up, glosses over missteps, and instead focuses on containment success.

China has used a selective timeline to defend against growing criticism over its lack of transparency in the pandemic, even as lawsuits seeking punitive damages from Beijing pile up across the globe, including in the US, India and Nigeria.

“The case is very sensitive, so the court will probably give us a cold shoulder,” said Yang Zhanqing, Mr Zhang’s lawyer. “At the same time, the court will notify the local government, and the authorities will coerce him to withdraw the lawsuit.”

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Chinese authorities are working overtime to snuff out anger over its mishandling of the outbreak.

In Wuhan, ground zero of the pandemic, police have threatened to arrest people organising to file complaints if they meet in groups of five or more, said Chen Jiangang, a lawyer trying to negotiate settlements for families of those who died.

“The pressure comes from everywhere – not only from the police, but also the Communist Party neighbourhood committees, in the workplace, even relatives at home,” he said.

One state-owned company employee was pressured by her manager to stop complaining to journalists that a hospital refused to issue a coronavirus diagnosis, even though she tested positive and needed a positive diagnosis to file an insurance claim. Her boss warned doing so was a “political mistake,” her lawyer told the Telegraph.

Others have been compelled by police and local party officials to abandon their pursuits for reparations. Lawyers in China have also been told to cease providing assistance.

“If you show you are indignant or critical, they can immediately locate you and get information about your family and movements, including who you talked to and where you have been,” said Mr Chen. “There’s 24-hour monitoring.”

Most people acquiesced out of fear, but Mr Zhang continues to defy threats. His social media posts have been censored and police have made clear they’re watching him.

Police waved a printout of his comments in a group chat – since shut down by the authorities – with more than a hundred people hoping to seek reparations for relatives’ deaths, chiding him for “meddling with ‘anti-China’ forces,” he said.

The Chinese government frequently blame dissidents for unpatriotic behaviour by siding with “foreign” forces, an argument that has gotten louder as countries call for an independent inquiry into coronavirus origins.

“If we say anything, they accuse us of handing a knife to ‘anti-China’ agents,” said Mr Zhang. But “they’re the ones wielding the knife, hurting me, so why am I not allowed to speak up?”

His lawyer was so concerned for his safety that he immediately feared police had detained Mr Zhang after he stopped replying to messages for two hours the day after filing the lawsuit.

For now, a draconian mix of surveillance and the threat of consequences has kept social unrest at bay. Authorities have managed to rein in public anger that hit a peak when whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang died in February and government censors struggled to delete the surge of critical comments online.

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But in Wuhan, discontent continues to brew. Families remain angry with hospitals and quarantine facilities for not accepting patients and negligence, while others are upset at companies for mandating work and offering inadequate protective supplies.

A woman whose father-in-law died is quarrelling with quarantine facility staff for refusing to deliver medicine to him and failing to provide a health certificate that would allow the family to apply for reparations.

Protests have also sprung up. As quarantines lifted in April, dozens of shopkeepers at a mall demanded lower rents after being forced to shutter all year. Other residents were outraged at property management for high prices for groceries and home essentials during the lockdown. Last month, outrage flared after another doctor died from the coronavirus.

The pressure campaign could last decades – even now, Chinese authorities will detain people who lost relatives in the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre when the military gunned down peaceful pro-democracy protesters, an event the government still won’t acknowledge.

Despite the risks, Mr Zhang refuses to give up.

“Many families have fallen silent under pressure, which I understand,” he said. “But I won’t be gagged. If I am, my father will have died in vain, and that wouldn’t do him justice.”

Additional reporting by Lya Cai

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George Weisz, inventor of COVID-19 ventilator, dead at 90

George Weisz, a tinkerer-turned-mechanical engineer who designed a popular ventilator being used to treat the coronavirus, has died in the UK at the age of 90, according to a report.

Weisz, who was born in Hungary in 1929, fled Budapest for London with his mother and two sisters in 1939, two weeks before the outbreak of World War II, The Times reported.

His father had paved their way after moving to England the year before amid a rising wave of anti-Semitism. His uncle and cousin both perished during the Holocaust.

The family settled in north London, where his mother inculcated him with her love of art and he lived by his father’s philosophical words: “Where is it written that life should be easy? Life is hard,” the newspaper reported.

Weisz’s path to engineering began when he was a mere 6-year-old, when he disassembled his dad’s pocket watch.

“I managed to put it back together again,” he said. “From that point onwards, everybody said I was going to be an engineer.”

In 1950, he graduated from Birmingham University with a degree in engineering and joined the English Electric Co., an industrial manufacturer based in London.

Weisz was the youngest works manager the company — whose aircraft designs became landmarks of British aeronautics — had employed, The Times reported.

In 1960, he bought a small factory that supplied components to several car manufacturers, then signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence to provide it with parachute release actuators used by RAF pilots.

Six years later, he launched Kay Pneumatics, which specialized in automation using compressed air — technology that was used on train and bus doors across Britain.

In 1972, he invented an artificial ventilator pneumatically powered by its own oxygen tank.

Today, thousands of his Pneupac machines are helping hospitals across the UK to manage the coronavirus pandemic, according to the news outlet.

In 1986, Weisz’s marriage to Edith Teich ended in divorce. He married Judith Szekacz, a fellow Hungarian who is a psychoanalyst, in 1994.

Weisz received a Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement in 1993.

At age 84, he produced a documentary, set in Nazi Germany, about the little-known story of Regina Jonas, who became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi. She later died at Auschwitz.

“I feel very emotional about the Holocaust. It is something that casts a shadow and should not be forgotten — and that is one of the reasons I wanted to do this film,” Weisz said when the film was released.

In addition to his wife, Weisz is survived by his children, Rachel, the Oscar-winning actress; Minnie, a photographer and visual artist; and a stepson, Mark, a literary translator and writer.

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