Those Published “17,000 Hydroxychloroquine Deaths” Never Happened

heritage.org ^ | Sep 23, 2024 | David Gortler, PharmD

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Early January of 2024, Americans learned about the publication of an article from Elsevier’s Journal of Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy overseen by Dr. Danyelle Townsend, a professor at the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy’s Department of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences. As Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Townsend reviewed, approved, and published the article titled: “Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: An estimate.” 

The article was always a hypothesized estimate of people that might have died, but now even that estimate has been retracted. The reason for the retraction was that the Belgian dataset that was one of the bases for the piece was found to be “unreliable” (but in reality was fraudulent). The article also repeatedly referenced the New England Journal of Medicine’s 2020 RECOVERY trial. The RECOVERY trial is well known to be a deeply flawed study which, in addition to implementing late treatment in severely ill Covid patients, used extremely high doses of HCQ. 

The now retracted publication authors were all French or Canadian, with the primary author a pharmacist by the name of Alexiane Pradelle. According to a rudimentary internet search, Dr. Pradelle had never published before. Subsequently, listed authors were degreed as physicians, pharmacists, and/or professors of their respective disciplines. The main, corresponding author, Jean-Christophe Lega, runs the Evaluation and Modeling of Therapeutic Effects team at the University of Lyon. 

Hydroxychloroquine’s Fabled Safety History Contrasts Data

In addition to being a hypothesized estimate, the article also attacked the legendary safety of HCQ, contradicting centuries of the safety of quinolines as a class. 

[Salman]

It's like they wanted people to die, am I right?

[MountainDad]

Remember all the crap we got when we tried to tell them?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I only knew about the 1 moron that drank his fish tank cleaner.

[Tymesup]

What’s that noise? It’s silence!

Thread has been up for six hours and none of the usual gang have turned up to debunk the article. Maybe they’re no longer employed.

[Political Junkie Too]

Here is the January 7, 2024 FR thread on the publication of this study, with 188 posts.

Hydroxychloroquine Use During COVID Pandemic May Have Induced 17,000 Deaths, New Study Finds

-PJ

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Thank you, PJ! :D

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[Gaffer]

It was an ‘estimate’. A very bad, and duplicitous one.

At the time, I believe doctors and hospitals were incentivized to declare some malady COVID because of pressure from Biden’s government, and the extra government funding they’d receive for treatment for COVID. I don’t even think their tests for COVID were accurate or widely used, either. Just a ‘diagnosis’ and that was that.

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The PCR ‘test’ used to identify Covid was not developed to identify Covid. The CDC said the Covid virus was unavailable when the test was created, so the test was designed to identify a ‘related coronavirus.’ So we don’t know what sick people had - one of any number of ‘related coronaviruses’ or what. Dr. Michael Yeaton, former Chief of Science at Pfizer’s Infectious Diseases wing, has made the point that the PCR test had a 100% false positive rate, as it was looking for a ‘related coronavirus’ and not Covid.
Besides, Fauci said that Covid was not related to anything our immune systems would recognize.