House debates

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Statements by Members

COVID-19: Hydroxychloroquine

1:46 pm

Photo of Craig KellyCraig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

On 31 August, the member for McMahon tweeted, in relation to the drug hydroxychloroquine, 'No, there aren't a "range of views expressed by people on all sides".' Well, to assist the opposition's shadow health minister, here is a list of a few medical professionals that might disagree with him: Dr Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari, Dr Luis Francisco Sucre, Professor Harvey Risch, Dr Scott Atlas, Dr Kulvinder Gill, Professor Michael Keane, Dr Zelenko, Dr Roland Derwand, Dr Martin Scholz, Dr Richard Urso, Dr Andrew P Harris, Dr John Campbell, Dr Simone Gold, Dr Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Dr Francisco Sanchez, Dr Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Dr Ramiro Da Silva, Dr James Todaro, Dr George C Fareed, Dr Michael M Jacobs, Dr Donald C Pompan, Dr Devesh Patel, Dr Mohammad Hussain, Dr Lowell Phipps, Dr Christian Perronne, Dr Shiva Ayyadurai, Dr Mikko Paunio—and the list goes on and on. There's also the Indian Council of Medical Research, headed by Professor Balram Bhargava, and 107 authors of the latest peer-reviewed medical research, published in the European journal of medical literature, that concluded: 'Hydroxychloroquine use in the latest peer-reviewed study is associated with a 30 per cent lower risk of death in hospitalised COVID patients'—a 30 per cent lower risk of death!

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