THE CHLOROQUINE CONTROVERSY, WHO IS DR. DIDIER RAOULT?

Dr. Didier Raoult

Dr. Didier Raoult is the director of the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée infection in Marseille - Aix-Marseille University. He is in the first position for European researchers whose publications have been most cited by the international scientific community in the field of Infectious Diseases. 

This ranking was established in February 2017 on the basis of the analysis of the number of citation of publications published in scientifically recognized Microbiology journals during a period of 7 years between 2007 and 2013.

Professor Raoult published 636 articles between 2007 and 2013 and these articles were cited 18,128 times by scientists from the international community. This list was compiled from the Clarivate Analytics database, formerly Thomson Reuters.

On the other hand, Professor Didier Raoult as well as four other researchers attached to the IHU Mediterranean infection appear on the list of researchers most cited by the international scientific community published by Clarivate Analytics - Highly Cited Researcher list. 

Epidemic and spread of diseases

Whenever there is an epidemic, the true story about it or its origin is always suppressed. What matters most to world leaders is to find vaccines to fight the disease. 

At times, there is already a vaccine for the disease but the authorities may not make that information public to avoid the accusation that they are responsible for the disease, the reason they have already made vaccines to contain the disease.

This was the case about the Ebola biological weapon which was triggered in the West African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, in 2014, under the administration of Barack Obama.

The US government, the World Health Organization, and the Centers Disease Control claimed bats were responsible for the spread of the disease, yet many had no idea that the US government had already made Ebola vaccine ready called "EboBun." It's patent No. CA2741523A1, which was awarded in 2010. 

Did the US government had a dream about Ebola to make that vaccine? Not at all, they were aware that in 2014, there are going to test Ebola biological weapons in those West African countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea Liberia and in Congo simultaneously, the reason they made that vaccine.

The Coronavirus or COVID 19

About the Coronavirus, all that we were told is it started from a place called Wuhan in China. Since then, the virus has infected thousands of people around the globe and claiming its victims with destructive impact health workers are finding it difficult to control.

The coronavirus is now in Africa but the impact is not disastrous like that of the United States of America and some European countries. The disease has affected thousands of Americans and killed over 65,000 people worldwide, while it continues to take its toll on Belgium, Spain, and Italy, than any European country.

It seems there is no vaccine for the coronavirus yet because it ignited like a bush fire without any warning but the fact we can’t ignore is during an epidemic without any immediate vaccine to tackle the disease, Europe and America pharmaceutical companies always interested to use Africans as Guinea pigs to test drugs.

From the time of slavery, colonization and Apartheid era, till now Europe and America have clandestinely used Africans as guinea pigs to test drugs. This is what Dr. Didier Raoult wants to avoid after the outbreak of the coronavirus or COVID 19.

In early February, Dr. Raoult believed that this disease, which is now the subject of a pandemic, defended the use of chloroquine to counter it. Indeed, this molecule, used for 75 years against malaria, could, according to him, overcome the coronavirus.

And it is not the exponential evolution of this virus that made the scientist change his mind. He has treated 24 of his patients with hydroxychloroquine. After six days, Didier Raoult had obtained good results, since 75% of them had a negative viral load, that is to say, that the virus disappeared and the patients were no longer contagious. 

For comparison, 90% of patients treated without chloroquine, in Nice and Avignon, would still be contagious after the same number of days.

Support from Donald Trump

The scientist was also supported by Donald Trump, who praised the use of chloroquine to treat coronavirus, following trials in France and China: "We will be able to make this drug available almost immediately. It's very exciting. I think it could be a game-changer or maybe not but from what I've seen, it could be," he said.

In a world that greed, selfishness, power, and politics, dominate and corrupt governments, world leaders, including the US and the Chinese governments, want to make their vaccines ready on the market against the coronavirus. 

Without any trial, this could prove fatal, therefore, the need for the trial is necessary. However, since new medication and vaccine easily find its way to African markets without much difficulty, Bill Gates has an intention to test  new coronavirus vaccine in Africa.

Corruption in Africa has allowed such dangerous vaccines to be available on African markets because the leaders care about the money those millionaires and big pharmaceutical companies offer them than the health of the poor masses. 

This is what Dr. Didier Raoult wants to avoid but already he has become an enemy because it’s always easy for the ignorant to believe in lies than the truth. Raoult and his team have now decided to give hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to all infected patients. 

"We also decided, for all the febrile patients who come to consult us, to practice the tests for the diagnosis of infection with COVID-19," one specified on the side of the institute, which did not fail to create queues in front of the establishment from Monday morning.

"I don't care what other people think. I am not an outsider, I am the one who is the most ahead. In my world, I am a world star, I am not at all against the tide. I do science, not politics. Infectious diseases are not very complicated, they are diagnosis and treatment, said Dr. Didier Raoult, in the columns of" La Provence .”