Every drug has side effects. When I hear them on the television, I wonder why anyone would take such a med.
““drug-induced cardiac arrests. “
At what size and duration of dosage? How likely?
So I need a medication that can save me from death but I need to be careful that the drug I am taking to save my life may give me pimples on my a## or kill me anyway. What do you think Im going to do, how ridiculous!
“...infamously touted...”
Stopped reading right there.
Disinformation.
The French Dr. Just finished a study with over 1000 patients. Zero cardiac events. Zero.
Dr. Daniel Wallace says side effects from HCQ almost unheard of. And he’s prescribed it to tens of thousands of patients. Millions of doses. He gave a summary on Oz a week ago.
HQ had serious side effects. So they came out with the far safer HCQ. Since 1955 it’s been in use, one of the safest and most widely prescribed drugs in the world.
Big Pharma is trashing HCQ, on purpose. No big $$ in it.
Are the drugs killing anyone who takes them to prevent malaria? Surely there are sick and cancerous people in other countries that also take HCQ.
I have heard that there are very few, if any, deaths from such persons.
We already know HCQ users don’t appear to get the COVID-19 “side effect” of infection.
So, the drug which has been in common use for 7 decades and is prescribed today very commonly throughout the world, is a favorite for medical staff in NYC by doctors and their staff. There are many side effects by almost all drugs available by prescription. And this drug has some side affects as well, these side affects are well known. But most people have no side affects. This drug is commonly available. It has decades of research behind it. And it is cheap and plentiful. Plus three first world countries recommend it for treatment against Coronavirus. You could say bad things about aspirin as well. Some children have very bad affect from aspirin. Aspirin may cause excessive bleeding and stomach irritation. But if aspirin worked against corona virus we would look past these issues and prescribe it.
I’ve taken repeatedly in the military and on safari in Africa.
The fake pearl clutching is almost funny.
The article plays up the HCQ adverse effects on heart/cardiovascular patients and uses this basis to require that all patients receiving HCQ be in hospital, which is not what Dr. Zelenko advocates. He tries to treat all his patients early and at home with HCQ and has them monitored in this state by his staff. Not all patients will have pre-existing heart/cardiovascular issues. It looks to me to be another excuse not in the best interest of the patient.
NOTHING ABOUT THIS REMDISIVIR MAKES ME THINK THEY SHOULD CONTINUE WITH THEIR RESEARCH ..........
“Elsewhere, California-based biotech company Gilead Sciences has released a new report on the potential benefits of the Remdesivir for coronavirus patients. In a study of 53 patients with severe cases given the drug as a last resort, 36 showed improvements. It was also observed of the 30 patients on ventilators before taking Remdesivir, 17 were able to be taken off the devices.
Among the remaining patients, eight worsened, seven died, and two showed no difference.”
Lupus and rheumatoid arthritis sufferers take hydroxychloroquine unsupervised at home, long term. This fear-mongering over apparently rare arrhythmia is becoming rather obviously an effort to obstruct widespread rolling out of prophylactic use. I note they’re “touting” remdesivir side by side now, with none of the scare tactics regarding side effects although to my reading, remdesivir is not as effective. Our medical establishment appears to be owned by the drug companies, that’s the only explanation that makes sense. Such a conflict of interest needs to be laid bare and then cast out. We’re not their revenue stream no matter how hard they try to get it back on the rails. Trump just has a gift for that, blowing up the hidden places and exposing bad actors. I wonder if he knew when he first “touted” it? Wouldn’t be surprised.
I THOUGHT THE USA HAD THE FINEST MEDICAL MINDS IN THE WORLD. IT APPEARS THAT IS FAR FROM THE TRUTH. WE HAVE BIG PHARMA POLITICAL MINDS RULED BY POLITICS AND MONEY, DAMN THE PUBLIC. HCQ HAS BEEN AROUND FOREVER BUT FAUCI AND OTHER MEDICAL SPECIALISTS KEEP PUTTING ROADBLOCKS IN ITS USE FOR TESTING PURPOSES. THE DAY MY BODY TEMP GOES OVER 98.6 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT I WANT TO START ON THE HCQ MEDS.
Yeah it has some troubling side effects. You can get a rash.
Hard choice, itch or die of suffocation.
Hmmm, decisions, decisions...
Are the dosages different by any chance? That is, is HCQ being given to corona patients in significantly larger doses than with malaria sufferers? As far as I know, people taking it for malaria don’t drop dead on a routine basis.
Just give me the pills and I’ll deal with any side effects if I live through it. The operative word there is live.
I thought I read that the coronavirus by itself causes heart problems.
'Dangerous side effects' for HCQ ... so dangerous in fact that the drug has been used in the same dosing level and higher, for fifty years, treating RA and Lupus. Yeah, the biggest danger is finding a way to halt a virus that does not have $s written all over it.
Secondly, the cardiac side effects for HCQ are only appearing in 47 out of every million DAILY LONG TERM users. The Covid treatment is one 200mg poll per day for only 5 days. There are literally millions of people who have been taking it daily for YEARS, and only 47 per million show the arrhythmia side effect. Even fewer have the blurred vision issues. (Liberals are literally saying "it causes blindness", which it has never done.)
Thirdly, 47 per million with a slightly different cardiogram pattern is far better than 20,000 dead per million. Anyone arguing otherwise clearly has another agenda in mind, aside from patient health and recovery.