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Coronavirus: the Order of Physicians warns of an "anti-Covid protocol" circulating on the Internet

2021-02-11T16:28:38.904Z


Proposed by the Free Health Coordination collective, this protocol is considered dangerous by many doctors.


The Order of Physicians has alerted to a "protocol", which has been circulating for a few days on the Internet and which is supposed to prevent Covid-19 thanks to substances, such as essential oils or hydroxychloroquine, without proven effectiveness against the disease.

"The National Council of the Order (Cnom) wrote to the High Authority for Health (HAS) and to the Medicines Agency (ANSM) to ask them to verify the compliance of this protocol with the data acquired from science" , said a spokesperson for the Council on Thursday.

As indicated by @lemondefr, the Order has entered the @HAS_sante and the @ ansm.

He recalls that any doctor must practice medicine in accordance with the data acquired from science, both in the development of the diagnosis and in the proposal of a treatment.

https://t.co/EbQSOw2VYc

- Order of Physicians (@ordre_medecins) February 9, 2021

This “therapeutic proposal to treat Covid-19 in the early phase” comes from the Free Health Coordination, which claims to represent 30,000 doctors.

Widely relayed on social networks, tables detail a "protocol" mentioning in particular relaxation therapy, zinc, vitamin C, homeopathy, vitamin D, ivermectin, hydroxycholoroquine, etc.

No proof

The collective of doctors No Fake Med - which fights against disinformation in the field of health - considered that "the presentation of a therapeutic protocol in the absence of evidence of efficacy and of a positive benefit-risk ratio demonstrated in patients endanger the lives of others ”.

In addition, there are proposed "combinations of contraindicated and therefore dangerous drugs," adds the collective in a press release Thursday.

"Certain treatments can prove to be toxic, and their ineffectiveness on Sars-CoV-2 infection can lead to delayed treatment and are likely to worsen the prognosis of this potentially fatal pathology".

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With the exception of a corticosteroid, no substance listed has so far proven its efficacy, neither preventive nor curative against Covid, while researchers around the world have been seeking an effective treatment for more than a year. .

Currently, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended corticosteroids "in patients with severe or critical form".

Protocol relayed by MP Wonner

Cautious, the authors of the protocol affirm that it is not a question "not of prescriptions, nor of recommendations, but of a feedback of field experiences of the doctors of the Free health coordination" and that "it cannot be taken or advised in self-medication ”.

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This "protocol" was relayed in particular by the former LREM MP Martine Wonner via Twitter but also during questions to the government at the National Assembly on Wednesday, arousing the exasperation of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

Martine Wonner said last year that masks were useless against Covid.

Early outpatient treatment: @MartineWonner (LT) asks why these "working" treatments are not encouraged and "she asks the Gvt to finally put the means for the prevention and early therapy against COVID" #DirectAN #QAG pic.twitter .com / Zylt92Z4Z8

- National Assembly (@AssembleeNat) February 9, 2021

Source: leparis

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