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Hydroxychloroquine Use During COVID Pandemic May Have Induced 17,000 Deaths, New Study Finds
Euronews ^ | 06/01/2024 | Oceane Duboust

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".


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KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; covid1984; deathdrug; fakenews; followdirections; hcq; hydroxychloroquine; hyped; jeanchristophelega; mortality
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To: cpdiii

Exactly. More DS baloney.


61 posted on 01/07/2024 2:25:21 PM PST by curious7
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To: nickcarraway

This is obviously about blaming Trump.


62 posted on 01/07/2024 2:26:10 PM PST by I want the USA back (Delusionary people should not be given power over normal people.)
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To: Pollard

“Same drug that’s been on the WHO’s List of Essential Medicines for years and is sold over the counter in countries with prevalent malaria”.

BINGO!


63 posted on 01/07/2024 2:26:42 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: nickcarraway

I have my doubts about the veracity of this research. I would like to see a disinterested take on the findings.


64 posted on 01/07/2024 2:27:06 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: laplata

You have found the pearl of regulation they hope would be hidden.


65 posted on 01/07/2024 2:28:14 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: gitmo

My wife has been taking HCQ for decades for an autoimmune disease. During COVID, our pharmacy cut her off. We had to get this vital drug from alternative sources for a while.
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That’s terrible. They knew she was taking it for what the medical profession considered a valid reason. Incidents like that — and many others during the lockdown — make me so mad.


66 posted on 01/07/2024 2:29:35 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: Pollard

Severe side effects from a prescribed medication!!!! How can that be? Why is this never mentioned on all those TV promotions for said medications!!!?? I am astonished at this discovery!


67 posted on 01/07/2024 2:30:04 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: nickcarraway

This is the top international news on Google today. In the days ahead, it will be reported and repeated verbatim by all US media outlets. By the end of next week, HCQ will be known as a bigger killer than COVID, a bigger killer than agent orange, and will all be blamed on Trump, agent Orange himself.


68 posted on 01/07/2024 2:30:06 PM PST by nwrep
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To: week 71

Predictive programming, for the next virus... About the beginning of summer, one would speculate.


69 posted on 01/07/2024 2:32:51 PM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: week 71

HCQ has been given literally billions of times in Africa and they are just now claiming it is risky
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I wonder if they will deny it to Africans now.


70 posted on 01/07/2024 2:33:54 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: bobrlbob
My wife was saved by this drug.

My own doctor used the hydroxy/zinc/azithromycin cocktail on himself when he caught it. He was staunchly anti-clot-shot. Recommended that I go out and catch it, and he would do it for me. I being 75 at the time, overweight and diabetic, natural immunity was the best course for me, he said. I failed. Never did catch it.

71 posted on 01/07/2024 2:35:02 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: nickcarraway

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.


estimated numbers


72 posted on 01/07/2024 2:35:32 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: cpdiii

It was approved here in 1956 for the treatment of lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

It can cause retina problems with long term use. (but in 20 years of practice I never saw one!)


73 posted on 01/07/2024 2:36:02 PM PST by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

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.


Reading past the headline..............................


74 posted on 01/07/2024 2:37:30 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Night Hides Not
said, "HCQ and Ivermectin cured"

yeap. The Antigen for Covid and HIV is malaria.

Two antiparticle should work very well against both of them.
Which covid is 72% HIV.

What I just said is from Perez and Montagnier(Nobel peace prize winner for discovering HIV.)
Found here:
Plasmodium Yoelii (malaria) and Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) (HIV) and SARS(RaTG13) found here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342926066_COVID-19_SARS_and_Bats_Coronaviruses_Genomes_Peculiar_Homologous_RNA_Sequences_Jean_Claude_perez_Luc_Montagnier

In the same paper shows that HIV(SIV) antigen is Plasmodium Yoelii (malaria.)
Search paper for this line. Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) (HIV)
SIV 24/33 bases 3/14 amino acids
75 posted on 01/07/2024 2:38:34 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn
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To: cpdiii

Excellent Post and it is exactly what they are doing. Evil bastards!


76 posted on 01/07/2024 2:39:19 PM PST by mazz44 (http://knowledgeofhealth.com/why-animals-age-they-produce-less-vitamin-c-same-for-humans/)
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To: nickcarraway

Avoiding COVID was about more than just keeping 2 metres apart,


From a early 1900’s study that thought spitting distance correlates with air transmission.

6 ft was the average spitting distance. This meant that half the people could spit further. But that was back when spitting was an art form...................


77 posted on 01/07/2024 2:39:45 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: nickcarraway

TRANSLATION:

“We better come up with some way to prevent the masses from saving themselves with hydroxychloroquine.”


78 posted on 01/07/2024 2:43:37 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: metmom; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Jan_Sobieski; Roman_War_Criminal; grey_whiskers; Enlightened1; ...

Which, no doubt, was the whole point of the study.


Exactly.

FRoctors probably sponsored it, as this is the SAME nonsense we heard from them, two - three years ago.


79 posted on 01/07/2024 2:45:23 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: reasonisfaith

Probably preventing too many cancer cases.


80 posted on 01/07/2024 2:45:46 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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