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".
I’m not a doctor, but HCQ and Ivermectin cured me the second time I had Covid. I had it bad, losing 30 pounds in a week. I was back at work 4 days later.
Nothing says red flag when that term is used. Either the study showed conclusively that it is dangerous, or it isn't.
But we must air the desired conclusion, after all that is the point of this article. Needed in order to get those "vaccines" being administered once again for the sake of investors. With the extra added value of helping in the depopulation of useless resource consumers (read as all not of the elite or desired future slave classes), in the brave new sustainable world to be created to provide the kind of life the elites so richly deserve.
How many millions have died in the Southern Hemisphere after billions of doses were dispensed to protect people from malaria?
Correction: “HDC” = HCQ
Yeah, another “meta study”. The most abused tool in the statitician’s bag of tricks. Meta-analysis must be applied with extreme care to be of any validity which is seldom the case.
I call BS. This is in response to their deteriorating position in the fake vax / Covid plague PR war.
Nothing from these people is as it seems.
Horse manure. My oldest son, now 57, has been on Plaquenil, twice a day for many years for treatment of his arthritis, and has never had any issues with it.
I’m going to call a gigantic pile of bullsh*t on this.
Tucker Carlson interviewed someone that puts deaths related to the vaccine at 17,000,000. And then add all the people that were intentionally mistreated in hospitals, to die alone.
https://twitter.com/TCNetwork/status/1743422128035438876
This is nothing but a very feeble attempt to try and take some heat off the vacciens.
https://twitter.com/denisrancourt/status/1743735976420093986
Total BS.
Total BS.
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I have a family member who’s been taking the same daily dose, as your son, for MANY years, with NO issues.
Truth be told, likely providing *other* benefits, as well.
I know 2 people down with Covid who took HCQ and recovered in a few hours…
Yet the researchers say: “This result argues in favour of tightly regulating access to off-label prescriptions during future pandemics”.
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The key part of the article. They want more control.
-PJ
Which, no doubt, was the whole point of the study.
This is ridiculous. HCQ has been given literally billions of times in Africa and they are just now claiming it is risky - lol!
Conservative and GOP Americans are now living in an upside down Soviet world where we are accused of killing fellow citizens with a medical drug that has been safely prescribed for more than a billion people over the last 70 years.
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