FILE – This Monday, April 6, 2020, file photo shows the placement of hydroxychloroquine pills in Las Vegas. On Friday, June 5, 2020, leaders of a large UK study rigorously testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and other drugs in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 said they believe the drug is effective. He said he would stop giving people the drug because it was clear there was no such thing. I'm helping. (AP Photo/John Locher)
(news nation) — Nearly 17,000 people in six countries may have died from taking hydroxychloroquine during the first wave of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, according to a report. study This is by a French researcher.
Immunosuppressants used to treat and prevent malaria were prescribed to some of the first patients hospitalized with coronavirus infection.
The study claims hydroxychloroquine was prescribed to patients with COVID-19 despite “low-level evidence.”
A meta-analysis of randomized trials found that hydroxychloroquine use was associated with an 11% increase in mortality. the study Published in “Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy”.
Former President Donald Trump was among the first to support its use to treat the coronavirus. From March 1 to April 30, 2020, Donald Trump tweeted about unproven treatments 11 times and mentioned these treatments 65 times in White House briefings, specifically hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. was advertised. According to the National Library of Medicine.
But Trump wasn't the only one who thought there might be merit in treating the coronavirus.
Physicians and pharmacists from six or more large health systems in New York, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Washington, and California. told Reuters In 2020, it was discovered that hydroxychloroquine was routinely used on patients hospitalized with the new coronavirus infection. At the same time, several people said they saw no evidence that the drug had any effect on the virus.
