Below is the powerful personal testimony of one of the few people in northeast Georgia who have contracted the Wuhan virus.  According to James Harper, from White County, Georgia, his wife Emily (shown below) started showing symptoms of the Wuhan virus last Saturday (April 4).  According to Mr. Harper: 

Back on March 16, President Trump said he had been told Hydroxycloroquinine (sic), which was developed to fight malaria, could be used to fight the virus. He said he was having it looked into so it could be used for that. Almost on immediately, CNN and other lame stream news outlets said he was wanting to use a 'snake oil,' which would not work. One Democrat Governor threatened to pull the medical licenses of any doctor who prescribed it for anything other than malaria in her state. 

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine saw an interview on TV with a man who had been saved by Hydroxychloroqinine (sic). He was at the point of death and his family asked his doctor about the medicine. The doctor told them he could only administer it if they requested it and signed a waiver because it wasn't 'approved' by the FDA for anything but malaria. Four hours later the man was sitting up in bed talking to his family and three days later he walked out of the hospital.

Mr. Harper goes on to say that his wife did test positive for the Wuhan virus, and thanks to hydroxychloroquine and President Trump's promotion of the drug, he got to bring his wife home from the hospital yesterday.  Just days ago, the state of Georgia received a huge donation of 200,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine from Amneal Pharmaceuticals.  Also recall that when our (Georgia's) media reported on the story of the donation, they were very critical of the drug and its prospects.  As Mr. Harper might put it, the "lame stream news" was at it again. 

The title of the AJC piece reporting on the donation declared, "Georgia gets trove of malaria drug unproven in fighting coronavirus."  The very first sentence of the piece notes that hydroxychloroquine is a drug that "President Donald Trump has aggressively promoted to fight COVID-19 even though it has yet to be proven safe for that use." 

The article goes on to say Georgia's "top health official has cast doubt about the efficacy of the drug to combat COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus."  On Tuesday, April 7, in its report on Georgia receiving a large donation of hydroxychloroquine, my local newspaper, the Gainesville Times, said, "It has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19, although President Donald Trump has expressed his support for it as a possible treatment option."

The article on the Gainesville Times website expressed the same sentiments until my wife Michelle made the paper aware of the FDA's emergency authorization for use of hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of the Wuhan virus.  In the Facebook comments section, Michelle revealed:

This is from the CDC website: "FDA issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to authorize use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine from the Strategic National Stockpile for treatment of hospitalized adults and adolescents (weight ≥50 kg) with COVID-19 for whom a clinical trial is not available or participation is not feasible." 

To its credit, the Gainesville Times edited its website article to reflect this information.  However, its Facebook page still has the misleading teaser.  As we have often seen — in this instance and countless others — the mainstream American media are again guilty of gross media malpractice.  This malpractice comes at a time when reliable media efforts are greatly needed. 

Thousands of Americans are dying (though far less than we were led to believe — another result of media malpractice!) — and tens of millions of Americans are suffering financially — and are mostly getting ignored by the media.  A trustworthy, reliable media establishment could do much to help in both situations.  Alas, we have an agenda-driven media establishment dominated by a perverse leftist worldview, and tragically, their evil agenda takes precedence over almost everything else.  In moments like these, we need testimonies like those from Mr. and Mrs. Harper more than ever.  Thank you, James and Emily!  May God continue to bless you as only He can!

Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
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Trevor is the author of the The Miracle and Magnificence of America
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