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".
My heart is sensitive to artificial sweeteners, alcohol and certain drugs. I don’t think I would be a good candidate for HCQ, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fine for most people.
What are the particular and exact mechanisms in the HCQ causing the cardiac arrhythmias?
Amiodarone is used for arrhythmias not because a lot of Europeans have a reduction in arrhythmias after using amiodarone but because there is a particular mechanism in the substance that reduces arrhythmias of a particular type
For instance:
“Amiodarone blocks potassium currents that cause repolarization of the heart muscle during the third phase of the cardiac action potential. As a result amiodarone increases the duration of the action potential as well as the effective refractory period for cardiac cells (myocytes).”
You show me that statement in relation to the opposite effect from HCQ and I will read on
Until then this is just propaganda
I don’t believe them. I’d have to see the raw data. I’ll bet they’re cherry-picking just a tad.
My wife was saved by this drug.
Fake news.
If they could have pinned one death on HCQ or IVM, it would have been front-page international news when they were pushing vaccines.
Just wait until their Ivermectin study comes down. Once again, murder is on their minds for wealth. Stock up!
The people of AFRICA a giggling at this “finding”. 🧐🫡
They are working to suppress easy cures before the next pandemic.
You can now buy abortion pills over-the-counter. But a safe & effective life-saving drug like IVM is suppressed.
It is one of the essential drugs on WHO's list of essential drugs.
IIRC governor Cuomo in New York, was given a supply of hydroxychloroquine to run an experiment early in the pandemic. He sabotaged it by giving HCQ in isolation and very late in the progression of the disease. All this so that Trump would not get any credit, but could continue to be demonized for suggesting (in the left’s words) “horse paste”. Leftist Democrats have absolutely no conscience and do not seem to care if people die as long as they stay in power
My niece and a good friend of mine were on it for a rheumatoid arthritis and then they were both exposed to many times and literally everyone in there family circle got it at one time or another they never got it.
HCQ definitely helps. However, you are best with added zinc and azithromycin, for COVID.
IIRC the “studies” conducted at that time were very late in what often was untreated bacterial pneumonia, if not confounded with additional mistreatment, and often with killer dosages and/or no accompanying zinc. That is, the studies were rigged for bad outcomes.
So if this study is based on those studies...
MAY so it must be true for the covidot’s
MAY so it must be true for the covidot’s
I wonder who funded this “study”?
The mRNA “vaccines” killed 17,000,000 worldwide, the conservative estimate made by Bret Weinstein in his interview with Tucker Carlson.
https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-encounter-bret-weinstein/
My PA doc warned me about using HDC, due to my heart problems, and said to get Ivermectin if I could, but he couldn’t Rx it for me. It was easy enough to find. All the docs were under severe pressure to stay out of that 2020-21 COVID-19 mess.
And the mRNA jabs are said to have killed millions.
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