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Family of New York woman blames hydroxychloroquine combo for fatal heart attack
NBC News ^ | April 16, 2020 | Heidi Przyla

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2020election; bigpharmapimp; covid19; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; fakenews; gilead; hcq; hcqtreatment; hcqwarning; heidiprzybyla; hydroxychloroquine; mediawingofthednc; nbc; nyc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; remdesivir; smearmachine; twitter
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To: nwrep

And...?


21 posted on 04/16/2020 5:55:58 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: nwrep
drugs President Dr. Donald Trump has promoted to treat the coronavirus...
22 posted on 04/16/2020 5:56:04 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: nwrep
Ligia’s last name is being withheld on the request of her children.

"children" seems out of place for a 65 year old woman. I would think 'sons', 'daughters' or family would be more appropriate.

23 posted on 04/16/2020 5:56:54 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
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To: nwrep

They just cant help themselves, much rather die from the virus than take a risk with meds that might save my life. Hey its a gamble anyone would want to have when your are facing death. The scumedia has its own agenda


24 posted on 04/16/2020 5:57:13 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: All

Better Call Saul! ;)


25 posted on 04/16/2020 5:57:52 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: nwrep

LOL!!!!!

NBC is a parody of itself. They would have gone to Mars to find this story.


26 posted on 04/16/2020 5:58:46 PM PDT by LeonardFMason (Lou Dobbs)
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To: nwrep

There is always a trade off. If a drug cures 10,000, but kills one, do you ban the drug?


27 posted on 04/16/2020 5:59:24 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: nwrep

Levitt acknowledged that the family does not know that the drug caused Ligia’s death. The family has not received a death certificate. But lets run the story anyway.


28 posted on 04/16/2020 5:59:36 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: gibsonguy

You’ve read part of the excerpt, which is better than some here, but now read some more.


29 posted on 04/16/2020 5:59:36 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Same thing with my grandmother. After many years on medication due to cancer the side effects of one of the medications is what likely caused her death. She can have either died years prior due to cancer or Spent nearly a dozen relatively healthy years taking medication.


30 posted on 04/16/2020 6:02:22 PM PDT by matt04
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

No. Actually the way the side effect took him was quick and merciful. They were beginning to talk to him about experimental pain clinics. God works in mysterious ways.


31 posted on 04/16/2020 6:02:23 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: nwrep

Where’s the study demonstrating this claim?


32 posted on 04/16/2020 6:03:24 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: nwrep

anecdotal!?!

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/older-adults.html

8 out of 10 deaths reported in the U.S. have been in adults 65 years old and older

insufficient info— is it established as a proven fact that the patient informed the doctor correctly that she had a history of heart disease, or that the doctor did not inform the patient that taking hcq had an associated risk? if not, why not? if no prior history of heart disease, then why is the doctor at fault? why are these simple questions not asked and answered in the “news article”?


33 posted on 04/16/2020 6:03:59 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: ARW

Exactly, the article states she was taking the medications and died while on the medications but they do not know what the actual cause of death was. It is simply a hit piece on Trump because NBC can’t allow any potential good news to come out during the coronavirus outbreak.


34 posted on 04/16/2020 6:04:21 PM PDT by matt04
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Levitt acknowledged that the family does not know that the drug caused Ligia’s death.

WAY TO GO NBC! You saved that til the very last sentence!
35 posted on 04/16/2020 6:05:12 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: nwrep

Bull bull bull

I take it

Nuff said


36 posted on 04/16/2020 6:05:28 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: nwrep

Isn’t this just ‘anecdotal evidence’...???


37 posted on 04/16/2020 6:05:32 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: nwrep

She neber received no this, no that. The family is going for a lawsuit, Show me the Benjamins!


38 posted on 04/16/2020 6:05:54 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: nwrep

Would they feel better if he would have just died of the virus?


39 posted on 04/16/2020 6:06:04 PM PDT by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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To: Equine1952
Did you read the last sentence?

Levitt acknowledged that the family does not know that the drug caused Ligia’s death.

NBC is a communist enemy.
40 posted on 04/16/2020 6:06:33 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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