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Hydroxychloroquine and The Risk of Death 

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A second interesting piece of rubbish that's making the rounds concerns the large risk of sudden heart death that supposedly comes with the use of hydroxychloroquine. It stems from this April 7th statement by a single Mayo clinic cardiologist:

"What disturbed me the most was when I was seeing not political officials say these medications are safe but seeing on the news cardiologists and infectious disease specialists say" hydroxychloroquine "is completely safe without even mentioning this rare side effect," Ackerman said in an interview.

"That's inexcusable," he added.

Ackerman and his Mayo Clinic colleagues created a cardiac algorithm, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, to help physicians more safely prescribe hydroxychloroquine by identifying patients at greatest risk for drug-induced sudden cardiac death.
A few days ago, the FDA issued a statement supporting the Mayo doctor:
The Mayo cardiologist was good enough to reference this study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.02.20047050v1 of 81 hydroxychloroquine patients in which 11% temporarily developed an abnormal heart rhythm. However, there were no deaths.

Here's where it gets really interesting.

Hydroxychloroquine has been used to treat malaria for 70 years. It has been prescribed literally hundreds of millions of times. My own brother was given it. If it had this deadly side effect, don't you think we'd know it?

The thing is, the Mayo clinic says it's risky. They reference an EKG abnormality. The FDA cautions against its use. Every news organization jumped on the bandwagon, painting the drug as something that might help with COVID-19 but also might kill you. But if you dig into the FDA report, you'll find that it did no investigation of its own. The FDA website simply says:

It "will continue to investigate risks"? When did it start?? I'm pretty sure that the FDA hasn't investigated at all since it states clearly that it is "aware of reports" (by one Mayo clinic doctor who sites a study showing a small chance of an abnormal EKG rhythm followed by zero deaths.) The FDA has a section on the web page devoted to this warning titled "What Did The FDA Find?" A visit to it will yield another reference to risks, but no elaboration of what those risks are, how many deaths there were, etc.

Next, the National Capitol Poison Center chimed in, ensuring that all of its readers would be aware of the enormous hazards associated with hydroxychloroquine:


Again, though, there is no elaboration about the risks. How bad are the risks? How many people has this horrible, extremely dangerous drug killed?

These are all new reports. But the drug has been around forever. What did they say about it a few short months ago, BEFORE the pandemic, before President Trump suggested people give hydroxychloroquine a try, incurring the wrath of leftists everywhere? That's what I want to know.

Here's what the CDC had to say, posted to its site pre-COVID. You see that big warning about heart issues, the advice to heart patients to steer clear? Nope, me neither. The CDC advises you not to take it if you're prone to rashes. That's about it.

Not exactly a major risk, the kind that COVID-19 patients might just decide makes the drug NOT WORTH IT.

What else does the CDC have to say? I like this: NO LIMITS ON ITS USE - but you might want to be careful with it if you're on it for more than 5 years at a stretch.

Since COVID-19, all sorts of heart organizations have been warning about the drug's hazards. acc.org says that there is ventricular arrhythmia risk. NIH.gov says patients have a high risk of hydroxychloroquine-induced QT (in their sinusoidal rhythm). Medscape.com says "cardiology groups push back on hydroxychloroquine" because of its massive risk profile.

But the drug has been used for seventy years, by hundreds of millions of people. What risks were people being advised of for those many decades? I found this, published pre-COVID:

By now, it should be apparent that hydroxychloroquine has been politicized and that, if hydroxychloroquine is ultimately shown to be effective, that the stigma it is being unfairly assigned is killing people. A lot of people. Since it's the left that's behind this, I can only say 'Nice going, liberals.'




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