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For weeks, both President Trump and Fox News have promoted the malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for coronavirus, but now the Food and Drug Administration has published warnings for doctors not to prescribe the drugs following reports of serious poisoning and deaths.
The agency says the drugs should only be used in hospitals or during formal clinical trials in order to decrease the risk of life-threatening heart problems associated with their use.
Fridays FDA warning follows a study, reported by the AP on Tuesday, from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia, that showed more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care. In the study, which included 368 males afflicted with the virus, 28 percent who were given hydroxychloroquine died, compared to 11 percent who received only routine care.
According to Politico, prescriptions for the medicines have steadily increased since Trump touted them, claiming that because they are used for other ailments that theyve passed the safety test. But that doesnt take into consideration side effects like heart arrhythmia from the drugs or account for patients with pre-existing conditions who might unknowingly assume its safe for them because the president of the United States said so.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-promoted-coronavirus-drug-fda-warnings-989763/
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Anyone who dies because they trusted the word of Donald Trump is so fucking stupid I consider their death to simply be the result of nature taking it's logical course.
There ... I said it.
ProfessorGAC
(64,417 posts)...need an online appointment with the review board, too.
Prescribing because a C student in undergrad business school thought it might work?
Poor judgment!