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The current joint study by scientists from Lyon, France, and the Canadian province of Quebec is largely based on data published in the journal Nature in 2021, which reported an 11 percent increase in mortality among patients with Covid-19. 19 related to the use of hydroxychloroquine.
According to the researchers, there were two side effects – on the one hand, due to the increased risk of cardiac arrhythmias with excessive use of this antimalarial drug, and on the other hand, due to the disregard of other effective treatments for Covid-19. 19.
He raised high hopes
Hydroxychloroquine raised high hopes right at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The studies by the French virologist Didier Raoult, who headed the IHU Méditerranée infection institute in Marseille, made a major contribution to this. However, his studies were later found to have numerous weaknesses and Raoult was removed from office after much controversy.
With Covid-19 it is useless. The university has stopped testing the controversial hydroxychloronine
Also in the Czech Republic, in March 2020, the Ministry of Health described the product as “potentially effective” against Covid-19, although at the same time the State Institute for Drug Control described the product as “potentially effective” against Covid-19 he warnedthat the preventive effect of this drug against the coronavirus was not documented and warned of side effects.
Take what you can lose, Trump urged
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced back in June 2020 that it would no longer study this product in relation to Covid-19 because there was no evidence of its benefit.
“We found that treatment with hydroxychloroquine is associated with higher mortality from Covid-19 and that chloroquine has no benefit in this disease,” said the authors of a large meta-analysis based on around dozens of previous studies and published in April 2021 in the journal Nature.
A few months later, then US President Donald Trump promoted hydroxychloroquine as a “miracle cure” against Covid-19.
“Marry him. What do you have to lose?” He defended the use of the drug against Covid-19 several months after the WHO distanced itself from such action.
The WHO has stopped clinical trials of the drug that Trump is taking as a preventive measure against Covid
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