Well he finally gets there. But just another hostile, left wing hit piece.
“ “I treated more than 3,700 patients with this medication, with 0.5 percent mortality and no cardiac toxicity,” he told Le Parisien newspaper in an interview published Tuesday. “What more do you want?”“
Hydroxychoralqunidene has been used for many years for Malaria prophylaxis and treatment. I myself took it when I worked in Nigeria as did all others that worked on my drilling rig. The minor risk profile is well known. The drug was available on the rig at the breakfast table in the mess. I did not use theirs as I already had my own from my physician in the USA that I took with me.
If you have a QT prolongation (a cardiac electrical conduction function) you might not take it but that is a decision of your physician. If you have a G6PD deficiency you should not take it. It could give you a fatal hemolysis. This is a rare condition but easily identified via testing.
I took this drug for years. I was 17 years in the oilfields world wide. I took this drug a lot. Went back to school again and became a clinical pharmacist now retired.