Analysis Reveals Heart-related Side Effects of Hydroxychloroquine

[Fall River]

Analysis reveals heart-related side effects of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine | EurekAlert! Science News

"Hydroxychloroquine [HCQ] and chloroquine were associated with higher rates of various cardiovascular problems, including life threatening heart rhythm events, heart failure, and damage to the heart muscle itself (termed cardiomyopathy)."

"Moreover, we show how these adverse events carry high risks for severe outcomes including death, even with standard doses of the drugs."

My comment: The reason I easily found this link is because I looked, as opposed to Sean Hannity who I recently heard on the radio still promoting Hydroxychloroquine.





You can observe a lot just by watching - Yogi berra

[Fall River]

Hydroxy is ineffective against covid-19

"Further evidence demonstrating the lack of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was detailed in a new randomized, multicenter, blinded, placebo-controlled study published in JAMA."

[Oceander]

Hydroxquinone affects the so-called complement part of the immune system. If one has already been hospitalized with cytokine-storm effects from COVID-19, then it is already too late to get a benefit out of hydroxyquinone.

This mechanism of hydroxyquinone has been known for years and years. So someone who is dosing people who have already suffered injury from COVID-19's impact on the complement system is - intentionally in my mind - creating a false-flag effort to create "fake" results in order to accomplish a foreordained political agenda.

It's a little bit like giving antibiotics to a COVID-19 sufferer and then claiming that antibiotics don't work. Duh.

[Foghorn]

It's pretty much the same news we were reading a year ago.

The list of potential side effects is long and heart-related issues are way down on the list on how commonly they occur. Setting aside Lupus and other similar medical ailments the main idea with this drug was to start taking it two weeks before you traveled into the jungle so you don't catch malaria.

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Analysis reveals heart-related side effects of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine | EurekAlert! Science News

"Hydroxychloroquine [HCQ] and chloroquine were associated with higher rates of various cardiovascular problems, including life threatening heart rhythm events, heart failure, and damage to the heart muscle itself (termed cardiomyopathy)."

"Moreover, we show how these adverse events carry high risks for severe outcomes including death, even with standard doses of the drugs."

My comment: The reason I easily found this link is because I looked, as opposed to Sean Hannity who I recently heard on the radio still promoting Hydroxychloroquine.





You can observe a lot just by watching - Yogi berra

Sheesh. Propagandist.
We have been using Hydroxochloroquine since the 1940s. Generally safe and effective. Yes, if combined with other drugs, and if it you are over 60, you can see some vision related symptoms. But for heart issues, very rare.
Why do you leftists always spread the shit so deep? I guess you favor vaccines, huh? I guess the Regeneron Cocktail is dangerous too?
It's people like you who have my Mom Scared shitless to come outdoors. I resent your lemming-like nonsense.

[Traddles]

Yes, HCQ can have side effects. Welcome to real life medicine. HOWEVER, HCQ has been in use in the US and around the world for decades and is on WHO's list of essential medicines. IOW, doctors know how to use it safely.

As for effectiveness against Covid:

Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin therapy at a higher dose improved survival by nearly 200% in ventilated COVID patients

Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin therapy at a higher dose improved survival by nearly 200% in ventilated COVID patients

Treatment options have been limited in the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Earlier optimism regarding immunomodulatory drugs such as azithromycin (AZM) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) seemed to be undermined by results of large interventional trials.

However, a fascinating new study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server (not peer-reviewed), suggests that such disappointment may have been both premature and unwarranted, based on a re-analysis of over 250 patients on invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) during the first two months of the pandemic.

Using computational modeling, the use of weight-adjusted HCQ and AZM appears to be associated with a more than 100% increase in survival, without a clear correlation with ECG abnormalities.

My emphasis. I'm neither one who thinks HCQ is a silver bullet that could have prevented all Covid deaths nor a denier that HCQ, used properly, can be a good treatment.

[Fall River]

Hydroxquinone affects the so-called complement part of the immune system. If one has already been hospitalized with cytokine-storm effects from COVID-19, then it is already too late to get a benefit out of hydroxyquinone.

This mechanism of hydroxyquinone has been known for years and years. So someone who is dosing people who have already suffered injury from COVID-19's impact on the complement system is - intentionally in my mind - creating a false-flag effort to create "fake" results in order to accomplish a foreordained political agenda.

It's a little bit like giving antibiotics to a COVID-19 sufferer and then claiming that antibiotics don't work. Duh.

But Duh.....no link to prove your point?

[Traddles]

Hydroxquinone affects the so-called complement part of the immune system. If one has already been hospitalized with cytokine-storm effects from COVID-19, then it is already too late to get a benefit out of hydroxyquinone.

This mechanism of hydroxyquinone has been known for years and years. So someone who is dosing people who have already suffered injury from COVID-19's impact on the complement system is - intentionally in my mind - creating a false-flag effort to create "fake" results in order to accomplish a foreordained political agenda.

It's a little bit like giving antibiotics to a COVID-19 sufferer and then claiming that antibiotics don't work. Duh.

Whether intentionally or from ignorance, the early "studies" that included a significant % of people on death's door were poorly designed. HCQ's major strength is in hindering the invasion of cells by, in this case, SARS-CoV-2 viruses. People on death's door are already fully infected - possibly well on their way to being clear of the virus - but are being killed by Covid's pneumonia, which is particularly nasty and persistent. Treating such people with HCQ, especially if by HCQ only, is like the proverbial closing of the barn door after the horses have escaped.

[Rutabaga]

But Duh.....no link to prove your point?

just type "how long has hydroxyquinone been successfully used in the medical field". into your search engine...


there might be links to articles about it.


[you can just c&p the query i wrote]

[Fall River]

Yes, HCQ can have side effects. Welcome to real life medicine. HOWEVER, HCQ has been in use in the US and around the world for decades and is on WHO's list of essential medicines. IOW, doctors know how to use it safely.

As for effectiveness against Covid:

Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin therapy at a higher dose improved survival by nearly 200% in ventilated COVID patients

Hydroxychloroquine + Azithromycin therapy at a higher dose improved survival by nearly 200% in ventilated COVID patients




My emphasis. I'm neither one who thinks HCQ is a silver bullet that could have prevented all Covid deaths nor a denier that HCQ, used properly, can be a good treatment.

Absolutely, it's not a silver bullet, not even close. The study was observational, not peer reviewed, and not published in any journal. And only a little over 1% of the study subjects were clinically diagnosed with COVID-19.