Posted on 04/16/2020 5:45:54 PM PDT by nwrep
A New York woman with coronavirus symptoms died last week after being prescribed a drug cocktail with known cardiac side effects, and family members say she was not tested for COVID-19 or for heart problems before receiving the medication. The family’s experience suggests that at least some physicians are prescribing hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin — drugs President Donald Trump has promoted to treat the coronavirus — outside of hospital settings, underscoring why major medical organizations including the American Heart Association have issued warnings about the drug’s potential to trigger heart arrhythmia in some patients.
In early April, Ligia, a 65-year-old Queens resident, was given the drug by her general practitioner after she reported having a bad cough, fever and shortness of breath. Ligia’s last name is being withheld on the request of her children.
While Ligia’s symptoms were consistent with those of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, she was never tested for the virus, her brother-in-law, Lee Levitt, told NBC News. Ligia received the drug after speaking by phone with her doctor, Levitt said. She was never evaluated in person and received no heart screening or warning about the potential side effects. “It was handed over like a bag of cookies,” Levitt said. NBC News made two attempts to reach Ligia’s doctor for comment. A man who answered the office phone and identified himself as the doctor then said there’d been a misunderstanding and offered to take a message. Levitt acknowledged that the family does not know that the drug caused Ligia’s death. The family has not received a death certificate.
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No last name. With the grand tradition of fake victims and sources in stories, how do we even know this is even real?
Hydroxychloroquine alone has saved countless people GLOBALLY.
Look it up.
They were not supposed to be prescribing this medication outside of a hospital setting in New York.
And no physician should be prescribing a combination of medications by phone, without evaluating a patient first. It would be negligent to give this drug to someone who didn’t actually have COVID.
I guess SH!
Its probably true - drugs have side effects that have really bad results for some people who take them. This woman was one of the unlucky ones. But that doesn’t mean you stop handing it out. It still does more good than bad. It may sound cold and heartless, but a certain number of deaths are acceptable as a side effect of life-saving drugs.
Ban Chemotherapy, then.
And if you wonder why the process of finding a cure is so long and drawn out now you know.
The true saviors of North America aren’t the doctors.
They are the LAWYERS! Lined up, waiting on the sidelines for even the smallest medical mistakes!
She was never evaluated in person and received no heart screening or warning about the potential side effects.
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That’s total BS right there. Anytime you get a prescription nowadays you are given a printout detailing how the media should be taken along with details on any and all side effects and precautions.
That is a very good point. Any adult who says they didn't get a warning about side effects for a drug they received outside of a hospital setting is either illiterate, cognitively impaired to such an extent that those around them should be watching out for them, or not telling the truth.
Sounds like someone fishing for an insurance payoff.
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wonder if she had any risk factors like obesity, hypertension, heat disease,? Not test for covid? Why prescribe the drug.? there is more to this story than they are reporting.
“She’s a pimp for Big Pharma.”
She’s no pimp, just a common Big Pharma street-whore like the rest of the Mainstream media. Cable TV news is filled with Pharmaceutical ads, their programming is essentially a 24 hour Big Pharma infomercial.
So New Yorkers listen and follow Trump’s “advice?” How stupid do they think we are. Funny how much the media is trying to destroy Trump with this anti-medicine jihad, yet they along with the Fauci-Gates etc elites push a non-existent vaccine which will probably never come.
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Levitt acknowledged that the family does not know that the drug caused Ligia’s death. The family has not received a death certificate.
OK China.
That is idiotic.
One of the outcomes of Corona virus is heart attacks, as it reduces the oxygen in the blood and stresses the heart.
If anything the family should be blamed for not providing treatment Sooner.
I think this was a case of too little too late.
typical fake news..
Headline:
Family of New York woman blames hydroxychloroquine combo for fatal heart attack
Article:
Levitt acknowledged that the family does not know that the drug caused Ligia’s death.
Many thanks! That makes total sense.
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