“HCQ use was associated with an 11 per cent increase in the mortality rate in a meta-analysis of randomised trials,” the study noted, citing a meta-analysis published in 2021 in Nature which the researchers used to calculate the number of deaths induced by the drug.
‘It’s not gone. It’s changing. It’s killing’: The COVID variants the WHO is watching closely The estimated number of deaths in European countries was roughly 240 in Belgium, 199 in France, 1,822 in Italy, and 1,895 in Spain.”
As a student of pharmacology I woul like to see it explained to me tge particular and exact mechanism in the HCQ tgat causes cardiac arrhythmia
They give amiodarome for instance to patients with arrhythmias not because a lot of Europeans have a reduction in arrhythmias after using amiodarone but because there is a particular mechanism in the substance that reduces arrhythmias of a particular type
For instance:
“ It blocks potassium currents that cause repolarization of the heart muscle during the third phase of the cardiac action potential. As a result amiodarone increases the duration of the action potential as well as the effective refractory period for cardiac cells (myocytes).”
You show me that statement in relation to the opposite effect from HCQ and I will read on
Until then this is just propaganda
In the US HCQ is used for some diseases like Lupus. I took it 40 years ago when I worked in Africa but even then there was resistance and I got malaria.
In the 1990s one group supporting suicide recommended it as a painless way to kill oneself because there was no known treatment. Then some docs in Paris found an antidote and the death pushers stopped recommending it.
Back then,this group was telling people that if they couldn't find the pills to use fishtank cleaner, when that story came out I wondered if it was a case of murder.
I have a friend who has lupus and she’s been taking Plaquenil for years. Plaquenil is HCQ.
She does get tested regularly for potential adverse effects but the main one that they watch for is vision related.