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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OK so I guess it would have been better for her to die of the virus, not being able to breath hooked up to a vent!!
I was waiting for the anti Trump article of the day. Whoopee!
Medical errors still kill more than CV-19.
Sounds like someone fishing for an insurance payoff.
My dad was killed by a side effect of his cancer medication.
He could have died from that or the cancer. In the end it made little difference.
Where are all the “alleged” wordings?
Your Big-Pharma masters thank you NBC, this week’s check is on its way.
So good to know that there won’t be any side-effects at all in whatever concoction your paymasters come up with.
Reads like fake news. I have my doubts. Fredo’s bother would blame it on Covid if she fell in front of a subway train.
President Trump is not administering drugs. As always, the decision to prescribe drugs is between the doctor, patient and patient’s family. I suspect the patient died of heart failure because their lungs were unable to supply oxygen to vital organs. If the patient died of an improper does, they can sue the doctor, but I suspect this is just a grieving family looking to scapegoat the President when their family member was already too far gone to help.
Would be more believable if it came from a reliable news source rather than the Marxist State Media (aka fake news).
My guess is money-grubbing relatives looking to profit from an ambulance-chaser’s efforts.
An anti-Trump New Yorker getting ready to sue.
I’m sure she is hurting right now - so I’ll cut her some slack.
It’s possible. Low risk does not mean no risk.
This is NBC news. I would not be surprised if they made this whole thing up. But even if it is true. They have to dig real hard to find these examples. Nothing is perfect. People can die from taking aspirin.
The purpose of this article is to condemn Donald Trump. And to make the virus crisis last as long as possible.
NBC claims without evidence that HCQ caused the death.
“family members say she was not tested for COVID-19 or for heart problems before receiving the medication”
Helllo WTF and they gave her the medication?
I am very sorry to hear about your dad, but passing as he did he didn’t suffer a long drawn out painful death from the cancer, my father passed of cancer it was just awful!!
“Forget it, Jake. It’s New York!”
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