Study On Chloroquine Is Halted After Participants Report Heart Problems, Start Dying

[UpInArms]

Source: Hill Reporter

A small study on a drug related to the one President Donald Trump has been touting as a “game-changer” in the fight against coronavirus was halted due to heart arrhythmias and other issues in participants, including the deaths of 11 individuals who were involved in the study.

The study, according to reporting from the New York Times, took place in Brazil, and involved the drug chloroquine, a close cousin to the drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19 by the president and others, despite lacking scientific evidence demonstrating such.

Both chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are used to treat malaria patients.

There were 81 patients involved in the study, broken into two groups: one taking 450 mg of chloroquine, and the other taking 600 mg of the drug. Some participants in the group with the larger dosage began to complain about heart issues, with 11 later dying as a result of arrhythmias.

Read more: https://hillreporter.com/study-on-chloroquine-is-halted-after-participants-report-heart-problems-start-dying-64266

[bucolic_frolic]

1. As I said last week

some people who start this drug will no longer have CRVID-19 and will no long need oxygen! See!

[spudspud]

2. Sweet baby Jesus...

God help those poor families of the test participants who died. I can only hope that Frump stops pushing this thing as a wonder drug for COVID-19. But I suspect, as with his whole griftin' family, he has some kind of business interest in doing so.

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. During the days before the 2008 recession,

the wealthy would take out life insurance policies on unknown individuals who were health risks so that they could collect money on them when they died. Consider these kinds of windfalls for Trump and his army of thieves. He may not have direct investments in the malaria drug, but MAY have investments in life insurance policies for those more susceptible to CV-19 deterioration.

[Maraya1969]

9. Is that legal? I've heard of it but I thought it was illegal.

[lagomorph777]

14. And that would matter to Trump, how?

[CrispyQ]

16. I thought it was illegal too, buying a life policy on someone without their knowledge or consent.

???

[AllyCat]

18. Walmart used to do this on its employees

Don’t know if they still do or can.

[murielm99]

21. Dead peasant insurance.

That is what they called it.

[stopdiggin]

29. with the corporation as beneficiary? (nt)

[AllyCat]

39. Yes. Families of the employees didn't even know about it.

[BComplex]

41. If only it could have been trump instead of these innocent people trying to get better.

Isn't he taking this drug he's pushing as the cure? Maybe that's what caused his melt-down yesterday.

[lostnfound]

3. Chloroquine is much more dangerous than hydroxychloroquine

Not really the same level of risk

[lagomorph777]

15. I totally missed that! The docs I saw talking about it pointed that out. Way higher risk.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Same thing happened in Sweden: Chloroquine trial stopped due to deaths. . . nt

[lagomorph777]

4. Those dosages are a bit on the high side for chloroquine.

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This drug is much more hazardous than the hydroxy- version.

Unlike Trump, I'm not an automatic "fan" of a drug that could save his ass from mass-murder charges.

This drug doesn't have a large safety margin; dosage is pretty sensitive.

https://www.drugs.com/dosage/chloroquine.html

[Maraya1969]

10. It has to be safe in the correct dosage or they wouldn't be prescribing it to Lupus

and other patients.

[Rebl2]

12. Used

to take it for RA and took 200mg a day. Eventually it caused eye damage and had to stop it. Went to my eye doctor twice a year and he caught it early, so didn’t lose my sight.

[Maraya1969]

13. Now that you bring that up my uncle took Humira for a short time and had horrible

sides effects including hallucinations and a couple years later developed Lou Gehrig's disease. We all think there is a connection. Those types of medications can be brutal. Usually people have to be suffering a lot to take them.

[warmfeet]

6. I suppose death qualifies as a cure in the orange assholes world.

FUBAR = normal expected outcome whenever the dolt is involved.

[turbinetree]

7. Okay, why not say in this report that the narcissus jerk had no business telling people

to take this drug...................but he said this...............what do they have to lose.................I don't know how your life.............

Trump, offering no scientific backing while doing so, has repeatedly suggested the drug should be used to treat patients suffering the ill-effects of coronavirus. “I hope they use hydroxychloroquine…I hope they use it because, I tell you what, what do you have to lose?” he said earlier this month.

[gibraltar72]

8. dying is a bad thing in drug testing.

[Doodley]

11. Why even do a drug trial when all we have to do is listen to an expert called Donald Trump?

[mpcamb]

23. Surely his family is making money on it. $2 a pop , $60 for 30 locally. And you get to wake up dead.

[yaesu]

17. Its still going on in Detroit hospitals. nt

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

19. Governor Noem of South Dakota just committed SD to hydroxychloroquine trial...

... the first state to do so. She hopes that she can get 100,000 South Dakotans to participate, because Trump already gave the state enough for 100,000 lab animals.

[Marcuse]

20. Who was the Principal Investigator for the Brazil study? Dr Josef Mengele, Jr?

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. Calling Dr tRUMP - calling Dr tRUMP - shut the fuck up about chloroquine.

[PatSeg]

24. Well, NOW we know what they had to lose

Life itself.

[pecosbob]

25. Shite...I just read on the front page of the LVRJ that UMC is already giving that stuff to patients

Las Vegas Review Journal...University Medical Center

Sorry to link to Sheldon Adelson's paper, but it is what it is...

https://www.reviewjournal.com/life/health/las-vegas-hospital-blazes-own-path-with-malaria-drug-to-treat-covid-19-2005095/

[Fla Dem]

26. " involved the drug chloroquine, a close cousin to the drug hydroxychloroquine"

" involved the drug chloroquine, a close cousin to the drug hydroxychloroquine"

Trump will use the fact that it was not the EXACT drug to continue to support its use.

[mr_lebowski]

28. That's not an unimportant distinction ...

Morphine is a very close cousin to heroin, just as a for example. The former is safer.

Not by a huge amount in clinical settings, but ...

[stopdiggin]

32. correct. and the differnce here is not a minor one

up string are several posts stating that chloroquine is quite a bit more tricky and potentially dangerous. Not sure why it would be chosen for this trial. (availability over hydroxychloroquine?)

And, of course, Trump has no f**king clue what either of them are ...

[Fla Dem]

35. So he would be correct saying it has no relevance to him supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine?

Chemistry was never my strong suit. In fact pretty much sucked in all sciences.

[KPN]

27. Tell the moron that The Cure Shouldn't Be Worse

Than the Problem!

[olddad65]

30. If it is causing people to die, that will be encouraging news to trumputin.

[AKing]

31. Paging Dr NoNothing Trump,Paging Dr NoNothing Trump...Cleanup in aisle 4. Grrr!

[Botany]

33. Trump, "What do you have to lose?"

[MyOwnPeace]

34. I'm sure IQ45 will have figured out...........

the "trial program" was no good because it was using, you know, brown people/foreigners.
Yeah, that's the reason.
Besides, it just made his immigration program even more effective - fewer people alive to try to break in!

[Blue Owl]

36. (In whispered tone:) "Go ahead tRump... Take it..."

"Take it... C'mon... Take it..."

[ananda]

37. Every study so far has reported this.

Why anyone keeps doing these studies is beyond me!

[liberalla]

38. well now they need to run a trial study on the HYDROXY-chloroquine version

of the drug to get better and more complete answers.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. Heckuva job Trumpy