From a thread BTT:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3985411/posts?page=108#108 (h/t Jane Long)
Hydroxychloroquine, the Coronavirus drug endorsed by Trump causes no heart complications despite previous concerns, study by a team of European scientists finds
MSN ^ | 09/25/2020 | Alexandra Thompson
Posted on 9/25/2020, 11:35:21 AM by SeekAndFind
A controversial drug taken by Donald Trump to ward off the coronavirus may be safer than sceptics initially thought, research suggests.
The president announced in May he had been taking the anti-malarial medication hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half, causing first-time prescription rates and online searches for the therapy to soar.
Hydroxychloroquine is not approved for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in the UK or US.
The World Health Organization (WHO) stopped testing the drug after a Harvard study found patients on hydroxychloroquine were more likely to develop de-novo ventricular arrhythmia, the sudden onset of abnormal beating in the lower chambers of the heart.
This can cause the heart to beat too fast, preventing oxygen-rich blood from reaching the brain or triggering a cardiac arrest.
A team of European scientists has since found, however, hydroxychloroquine was not associated with deadly heart rhythms among patients with a low risk for arrhythmias.
My reply, in that thread....
THIS is EXACTLY what Dr Zev Zelenko AND Dr Harvey Risch have said!
In fact, Dr Risch said that HCQ may have even helped, in certain cardiac situations.
Dr Zev said, in his interview with Dr Drew Pinsky, that the ONLY cardiac events were in less than 1% of patients WHO HAD AIDS, as an underlying condition, and were given HCQ...for issue other/NOT RELATED TO China Flu.
FRAUDci needs to be fired, yesterday. He lied about a successful treatment, for secondary AIDS infections, as well.
He’s only in it for the money, to enrich himself and his cronies.
8 posted on 9/25/2020, 11:40:36 AM
And, this....Dr Risch’s Senate testimony....
So what did I find about hydroxychloroquine in early use among high-risk outpatients? The first thing is that hydroxychloroquine is exceedingly safe. Common sense tells us this, that a medication safely used for 65 years by hundreds of millions of people in tens of billions of doses worldwide, prescribed without routine screening EKGs, given to adults, children, pregnant women and nursing mothers, must be safe when used in the initial viral-replication phase of an illness that is similar at that point to colds or flu. In fact, a study by researchers at the University of Oxford showed that in 14 large international medical-records databases of older rheumatoid arthritis patients, no significant differences were seen in all-cause mortality for patients who did or did not use hydroxychloroquine. The Oxford investigators also looked at cardiac arrhythmias and found no increase for hydroxychloroquine users. This was in more than 900,000 hydroxychloroquine users. This is examined at length in my paper in the American Journal of Epidemiology in May.
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Risch-2020-11-19.pdf
One of the America’s Frontline Doctors said the cardiac issues were caused by gross overdoses of HCQ. They recommend 200mg/ day. The patients who had cardiac issues were given doses of 2000 mg. I think that was part of the plan to discredit the drug. If it were indeed so toxic most of the world would be dead as HCQ is over the counter in most countries.