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About hydroxychloroquine
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mahnmutSo Trump's been taking hydroxychloroquine. Touting a medicine with unproven effects on Covid-19, and dangerous for the cardiovascular system, I'm told. Next up, could he please inject himself with some bleach and be done with it? Please?
But about this drug. Let's not get so hyped up over it. This is a drug that is sold over the counter all over Asia and here in Africa. It has literally been taken by billions of people to treat and protect against malaria, and then lupus and rheumatoid arthritis since the 1940s and is one of the must-have drugs listed by the WHO.
The safety profile of Hydroxychloroquine (H/CQ) did not just change after 70 years simply because the POTUS touted it as a possible therapy. H/CQ has been an extremely low risk, commonly prescribed, (world)widely used drug by billions for 70 years. It is considered safe for children, pregnant women and seniors. Hundreds of millions use it today.
If H/CQ were that risky, hundreds of thousands of people in Africa and Asia should be keeling over daily from heart failure thanks to H/CQ.
According to the WHO (2017);
"Despite hundreds of millions of doses administered in the treatment of malaria, there have been no reports of sudden unexplained death associated with quinine, chloroquine or amodiaquine, although each drug causes QT/QTc interval prolongation."
https://www.who.int/malaria/mpac/mpac-mar2017-erg-cardiotoxicity-report-session2.pdf
That's not to say it's useful in any way against Covid-19. It may or may not be. And Donnie the most beautiful and brightest president this world has ever seen, is free to take as much of it as he likes. His MAGA followers as well. Darwin would be proud.
But about this drug. Let's not get so hyped up over it. This is a drug that is sold over the counter all over Asia and here in Africa. It has literally been taken by billions of people to treat and protect against malaria, and then lupus and rheumatoid arthritis since the 1940s and is one of the must-have drugs listed by the WHO.
The safety profile of Hydroxychloroquine (H/CQ) did not just change after 70 years simply because the POTUS touted it as a possible therapy. H/CQ has been an extremely low risk, commonly prescribed, (world)widely used drug by billions for 70 years. It is considered safe for children, pregnant women and seniors. Hundreds of millions use it today.
If H/CQ were that risky, hundreds of thousands of people in Africa and Asia should be keeling over daily from heart failure thanks to H/CQ.
According to the WHO (2017);
"Despite hundreds of millions of doses administered in the treatment of malaria, there have been no reports of sudden unexplained death associated with quinine, chloroquine or amodiaquine, although each drug causes QT/QTc interval prolongation."
https://www.who.int/malaria/mpac/mpac-mar2017-erg-cardiotoxicity-report-session2.pdf
That's not to say it's useful in any way against Covid-19. It may or may not be. And Donnie the most beautiful and brightest president this world has ever seen, is free to take as much of it as he likes. His MAGA followers as well. Darwin would be proud.
