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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You beat me to it.
Great minds think alike, I guess.
You’ve read part of the excerpt“
Ok Yeah it’s a bad habit many of us have. I am trying to break it.
“Sounds like someone fishing for an insurance payoff.”
I posted as much. The deceased was diabetic with high blood pressure. Diabetic prolly meaning here also obese.
I wish my father had passed that way, it is funny but I can’t remember him before the cancer I only remember how frail he was how painful it was for him very sad!! A year of watching him suffer that way!!
People have been taking this medication for a long time.
Sadly the democRats have demagogued it to the point some
in the public probably think you’ll grow horns if you use
it, and live.
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Hydroxychloroquine is an immunomodulatory drug that has been
used for 60 years to treat malaria and autoimmune diseases
such as systemic lupus erythematosus and inflammatory
arthritis, and potential new uses and benefits continue to
emerge. Toxicity concerns have been addressed with updated
prescribing recommendations.
https://www.ccjm.org/content/85/6/459
Contraindications
The drug label advises that hydroxychloroquine should not be
prescribed to individuals with known hypersensitivity to
4-aminoquinoline compounds.[13] There are a range of other
contraindications[14][15] and caution is required if
patients have certain heart conditions, diabetes or
psoriasis.
Side effects
The most common adverse effects are a mild nausea and
occasional stomach cramps with mild diarrhea. The most
serious adverse effects affect the eye, with dose-related
retinopathy as a concern even after hydroxychloroquine use
is discontinued.[2] For short-term treatment of acute
malaria, adverse effects can include abdominal cramps,
diarrhea, heart problems, reduced appetite, headache,
nausea and vomiting.[2]
For prolonged treatment of lupus or rheumatoid arthritis,
adverse effects include the acute symptoms, plus altered
eye pigmentation, acne, anemia, bleaching of hair, blisters
in mouth and eyes, blood disorders, convulsions, vision
difficulties, diminished reflexes, emotional changes,
excessive coloring of the skin, hearing loss, hives,
itching, liver problems or liver failure, loss of hair,
muscle paralysis, weakness or atrophy, nightmares,
psoriasis, reading difficulties, tinnitus, skin
inflammation and scaling, skin rash, vertigo, weight loss,
and occasionally urinary incontinence.[2]
Hydroxychloroquine can worsen existing cases of both
psoriasis and porphyria.[2]
Children may be especially vulnerable to developing adverse
effects from hydroxychloroquine.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxychloroquine
Many medications have a terrible list of side-effects that
are seldom if ever seen in real life.
Companies put every little think in there they can think of
to cover their posterior if something should happen.
This medication has been used for 60 years, and it’s still
on the market for the purposes it was intended.
And now COVID-19...
It was my first thought “fake news” aka NBC. If they said the sun rises in the east. I’d get up tomorrow to see. If it did I’d tell my wife “well I’ll be damn”. It’s my natural reaction to the MSM.
While Ligia’s symptoms were consistent with those of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, she was never tested for the virus...
Partisan Media Shills update.
LOL!
This drug has been in use to treat other illnesses for a long time without side effects, so the media’s blame game doesn’t wash.
They are already on Mars.
what i believe.
the powers that be, deepstate/globalists,
believed there would be a very long time of home imprisonment.
the chloroquine working as well as it does was an unexpected event.
they have put all their efforts at dismissing it, doscrediting it, physically denying it, making it illegal to try and prescribe
beause this makes getting the country back to normal possible WITHOUT MADATORY DAMAGING VACCINES AND ORWELLIAN TRACKING THEY SEEK TO INSTALL ON ALL OF US.
She was pumping the news about the fish-tank cleaner couple [end of March] as if it were a fact that Trump made them take it.
You know it will count as a corona death.
Who wouldda thunk it....malpractice lawyers!
Anything to blame President Trump.
How do these people know what the patient and doctor said to each other?
My wife is a pharmacist and says that is a known side effect.
Yes. In that article she left out the fish tank cleaner part til the end too.
That is pretty paranoid thinking. Problem is I agree. I chose to think they (the government will find me no matter what”. Then it’ll end fast with me going down hard. Fight on your feet or die on your knees ain’t no choice but inevitability.
That’s a known side effect.
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