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Judi Lynn

(164,067 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 11:33 AM Jan 2021

Doctors Report Serious Side-Effects of 'Early Treatment' for Covid-19


There is no proof of the effectiveness of the drug kit pushed by the Ministry of Health

Jan.25.2021 12:21PM

Everton Lopes Batista
Phillipe Watanabe
SÃO PAULO

When Edson José da Rocha, 51, was diagnosed with Covid-19, he received a prescription for the so-called early treatment, which included drugs such as azithromycin and ivermectin. When he was admitted to the hospital with the disease, he took chloroquine and soon after, started to feel a strange sensation in his chest.

His condition worsened and less than a month after entering the hospital, he died.

Medicines from the Covid-19 early treatment kit promoted by the Ministry of Health and President Jair Bolsonaro can cause cardiac arrhythmia, bleeding and inflammation in the liver, according to experts.

After a year of pandemic and dozens of studies, chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin have shown no beneficial effect in treating the disease and there is no convincing study on the antiviral efficacy of ivermectin.

More:
https://brazilian.report/business/2021/01/27/bolsonaro-privatizations-plan-for-brazil-all-but-buried/
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Doctors Report Serious Side-Effects of 'Early Treatment' for Covid-19 (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2021 OP
Chloroquine Phosphate Intended for Fish Arne Jan 2021 #1
Ivermectin CountAllVotes Jan 2021 #2
jair bolsonaro is another trump still_one Jan 2021 #3
I've written here at DU extensively on the dosages used to treat malaria. Those doses abqtommy Jan 2021 #4

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
4. I've written here at DU extensively on the dosages used to treat malaria. Those doses
Wed Jan 27, 2021, 12:54 PM
Jan 2021

are fairly low and fairly safe. But I've never found any dosage levels given for anti-malarial
drugs used to treat covid. Any medication can have serious side effects including death if
not used properly.

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