Posted on 01/07/2024 1:23:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The drug hydroxychloroquine was prescribed off-label during the pandemic and touted in particular by a prominent French researcher.
The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine may have induced nearly 17,000 deaths in six countries during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This molecule was presented during the pandemic as a miracle cure by a minority of health professionals, among them the French microbiologist Didier Raoult.
The scientist’s belief that the drug was a cure for COVID-19 was soon echoed by some policymakers. French President Emmanuel Macron notably visited his facility and US President Donald Trump recommended the drug in 2020, stating that he had already taken it.
Avoiding COVID was about more than just keeping 2 metres apart, study finds The use of the drug sparked controversy as many health specialists noted the lack of research or scientific evidence of its effectiveness against COVID-19.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorisation of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in March 2020 but revoked it in June.
The drug was found in particular to cause severe side effects such as heart rhythm abnormalities.
Nearly 17,000 deaths induced by hydroxychloroquine A new study published in Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy now estimates the fallout from the drug’s off-label use.
Researchers led by Jean-Christophe Lega, a Professor of Therapeutics in the Lyon, France hospital system, investigated studies conducted in France, the United States, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Turkey from March 2020 until July 2020.
"HCQ use was associated with an 11 per cent increase in the mortality rate in a meta-analysis of randomised trials," the study noted, citing a meta-analysis published in 2021 in Nature which the researchers used to calculate the number of deaths induced by the drug.
'It’s not gone. It’s changing. It’s killing': The COVID variants the WHO is watching closely The estimated number of deaths in European countries was roughly 240 in Belgium, 199 in France, 1,822 in Italy, and 1,895 in Spain.
"What we need to bear in mind is that this is a rough estimate, in the sense that it only concerns a few countries over a short period, and that the total number of deaths is probably much higher," Lega told French broadcaster France 3.
The results should be taken with caution as it is a statistical analysis. One limitation of the study was that in France, Turkey, and Belgium, in particular, data concerning exposure to the drug was scarce.
Yet the researchers say: "This result argues in favour of tightly regulating access to off-label prescriptions during future pandemics".
Well done...!
“The estimated number of deaths in European countries was roughly 240 in Belgium, 199 in France, 1,822 in Italy, and 1,895 in Spain.”
Here’s another galling thing. They admit the numbers are estimated and rough and yet go on to present numbers to a single digit. No, not 200, 199!
These people should be kept far away from numbers and statistics, they’re liable to hurt themselves and others. Idiots!
pharma looking to play the blame game before it gets pointed at them.
During COVID, the principal purpose for HCQ was as an ionophore to drive zinc into cells to prevent replication of the virus. Azithromycin was given to deal the bacterial infections secondary to the viral SARS-CoV-2 infection. Given alone, HCQ has little efficacy against an active COVID infection.
How many killed by remdesivir?
And the NUMBER ONE drug for Lupus.
“If you’ve been diagnosed with lupus, your provider might prescribe hydroxychloroquine or another antimalarial drug. Hydroxychloroquine is the most commonly prescribed treatment for lupus, and most providers will put a patient who has lupus on this medication for the duration of their lives, not just during flare-ups.”
****for the duration of their lives, not just during flare-ups.”****
How many doses is THAT?
How many have died? I’ll bet almost no one.
A peer-reviewed study analyzing the effectiveness of a triple drug cocktail including hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients found that the treatment was effective and that it significantly reduced hospitalization and mortality rates for those in the treatment group.
The study, authored by the controversial Dr. Vladimir Zelenko in partnership with two German doctors, was accepted for peer-review and will be published in the December issue of the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. An online-only version of the study was published Oct. 26. […]
The study found that treated patients were 84% less likely to be hospitalized than untreated ones. Of 141 treated patients, four were hospitalized, which was significantly fewer than 58 of 377 untreated patients who were sent to the hospital. Additionally, the mortality rate for treated patients was lower. Only one patient in the treatment group died versus 13 patients in the untreated group. The patient who died had a history of cancer and only took one daily dose of the triple therapy before hospital admission.
Euronews?
Ok - I understand why Big Pharma wanted Ivermectin and HCQ suppressed - they couldn’t push the clot shots as long as there was alternative treatment available. But why the coercive push to make us get the clot shot? Just illicit profits for BP? Or is there a more sinister reason? If it was meant as a mass weapon to depopulate the earth it’s failing - it’s made a dent but a small one. To make women infertile? Some other sinister purpose yet to be revealed? Does it make people vote rat?
Just curious - the coercion was so over the top that there has to be a reason other than making a few guys billionaires. I’ve seen lots of speculation but nothing that rings true.
“ It’s not gone. It’s changing. It’s killing’”
Yeah.
It’s Captain Trips now.
Whatever.
/Cibola! Bumpty bump!
Jonty30 wrote: “What evidence outside the lies do you have that shows that the vaccines saved any lives?”
Simply this: compare the number of deaths from covid prior to the vaccines to the decline in the deaths after the vaccines.
And, no, the vaccines didn’t kill millions of people.
It is indeed crap.
Be sure to note the rampant use of weasel wordage.
This is about getting Trump and has ZERO to do with protecting public health.
Those in charge of policy acted like prevention and early treatment did not exist for Covid. They did everything they could to prevent research into early treatment and pushed miracle drugs like Remdesivir, when there was little evidence meeting Fauci's "gold standard" that it worked.
Rault, Zelenko and others are pushed for HCQ as prevention and early treatment, not ICQ. It is really easy to claim HCQ didn't when it was deliberately used wrong.
I’m sure they will say the same thing about Ivermectin.
When’s that article coming out? I helped hundreds of people
with my contact in India.
LOL! In other words, it's all made up and nonsense. It's been prescribed for decades with little to no side effects, but suddenly its deadly because it countermands the agenda.
I took Hcq when I got COVID, and by the next day my fever was gone and was already feeling better. As far as I know, I did not die.
I take two a day for years
Nothing
I had very mild Covid
It first came out four days ago
A bludgeon on Trump
His advice to take it
Video of him saying “what do you have to lose” shown too
Somewhere a Fusion GPS like apparatchik team put this together
The idea that HCQ could work against Covid 19 comes from a 2005 study found at PubMed.
That study was actually done using CQ against the SARS-1 virus but that’s pretty close to HCQ and SARS-2.
So it made sense to try HCQ when little was known about Covid other than it was another SARS virus.
The 2005 study was done in a lab using Green Money tissue. SARS-1 was no longer around to run in vivo tests on humans. The first opportunity to do that came in early 2020 and what had worked in the lab didn’t work in real life.
I have a friend who has lupus and she’s been taking Plaquenil for years. Plaquenil is HCQ.
She does get tested regularly for potential adverse effects but the main one that they watch for is vision related.
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