Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of Covid-19, according to a study by French researchers, Politico reports.<\/p>\n
The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits,” the researchers point out in their paper, published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.<\/p>\n
Now, researchers have estimated that some 16,990 people in six countries\u2014France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and the US\u2014may have died as a result.<\/p>\n
That figure stems from a study published in the Nature scientific journal in 2021 which reported an 11 percent increase in the mortality rate, linked to its prescription against Covid-19, because of the potential adverse effects like heart rhythm disorders, and its use instead of other effective treatments.<\/p>\n
It was considered something of a \u201cmiracle cure\u201d by the then-US President Donald Trump, who had said: \u201cWhat do you have to lose? Take it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nearly 17,000 people may have died after taking hydroxycholoroquine during the first wave of Covid-19, according to a study by French researchers, Politico reports. The anti-malaria drug was prescribed to some patients hospitalized with Covid-19 during the first wave of the pandemic, “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits,” the researchers point out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n