Arizona man dies after taking chloroquine for coronavirus
By: Deena Beasley
Trout here:
trmp didn't go all Jim Jones and force people to self medicate with this drug, but people hang on to every word he says as if he were The Great Messiah come to save us all. All they has to hear or read is the comment I quoted above.
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(Reuters) - An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.
The couple, in their 60s, experienced immediate distress after swallowing the drug, an additive used at aquariums to clean fish tanks, according to Banner Health Hospital in Phoenix.
Chloroquine phosphate shares the same active ingredient as malaria drugs that President Trump has touted as possibly effective against COVID-19, the potentially life-threatening disease caused by the coronavirus.
On Saturday, Trump tweeted about the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, saying it had “a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.”
The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, played down that claim, saying the therapy must be tested to assure its safety and efficacy.
“Chloroquine, a malaria medication, should not be ingested to treat or prevent this virus,” Banner Health said in a statement on Monday.
The new coronavirus, which causes the highly contagious COVID-19 respiratory illness, emerged in December in Wuhan, China and has spread throughout the world.
There are currently no vaccines or treatments approved for the disease, but researchers are studying existing treatments and working on experimental ones. At the moment, most patients can only receive supportive care.
“Given the uncertainty around COVID-19, we understand that people are trying to find new ways to prevent or treat this virus, but self-medicating is not the way to do so,” said Dr. Daniel Brooks, Banner Poison and Drug Information Center medical director.
rooks urged the medical community to not prescribe chloroquine medication to any non-hospitalized patients.
“The last thing that we want right now is to inundate our emergency departments with patients who believe they found a vague and risky solution that could potentially jeopardize their health.”
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According to Gupta & Fauci the small trial sample from France was disappointing.
The acceptable cloroquinine not only failed in 6 cases;
of those 6
one dropped out of the trial after experiencing vision side effects.
5 worsened and went to ICU
where one died.
25% failure rate is not a miracle cure.
And like Fauci said, without a large sample and control groups
who knows if the others were helped or just cured at the same rate they would have without any intervention...
trumpski sure does seem intent on eliminating a large percentage of his base before november for some unknown reason. just saw a blurb on the net that most everyone at jr's mar-a-lago birthday party for his girlfriend have now tested positive. bummer.
Gotta link for that? Couldn't find it on Google.
What is to discuss? Two Darwin Award winners took something that is not even close to being a medication and suffered for it.
An aquarium cleaning product? Really? What other chemicals did the cleaning product have that are not in hydroxychloroquine? Ever think those other chemicals helped to put the couple in hospital? Nah, couldn't be.
The media and the left are seeking to cast the full blame on Trump of course.
Just another day in the TDS driven US.
That's the point I'm trying to get across. This is not about left wing or right wing. Reuters reported it and I thought everyone pretty much respected them.
Somebody died because he didn't have a lick of sense or because his IQ is below room temperature.
That about sums it up.
He loves the poorly educated. However he should be held accountable for not allowing Doctors to exclusively speak on medications. When Trump speaks, his blind worshipers take it to heart and he is not a doctor. No one should recommend drugs or medications unless they have the medical degree to back it up. It follows that his followers will misinterpret the drug name and take anything that comes close to what they heard, or thought they heard him say.
I struggle to find sympathy for anyone that believes whatever POS/POTUS has to say about treating covid-19.
It does??? Why does that follow? And if it does naturally follow, why haven't millions of people swallowed this chemical?
Cause they're not all as stupid as these 2 are
I'm drinking a lot of tonic water. Including the lemon that no one else wants.
Hands off the imported cucumber tonic though...that's Mom's alone.
Because with trump supporters we grade on a curve. You have to understand that there are trump supporters that believe that trump has never ever told a lie. When you throw in a president that at fox news put it, "a strange relationship with the truth", when he makes medical comments of which he has NO clue about, people will die. It's that simple. Yes, these two were idiots for listening to trump, but some of the onus must fall on trump for making blatantly false statements that are designed to protect his image. To put it another way, trump didn't pull the trigger, but he sure as hell loaded the gun and handed it to these two people.
What blatantly false statement did he make? He referenced a set of patients who had been treated and said the results were "encouraging." That's an opinion, but those patients are real. Medical researchers are studying the medicine. That's also true. He said it may work or it may not work.
He said doctors have been prescribing it for a long time. That's also true. In the almost total absence of effective treatments, it's perfectly reasonable to be optimistic about this one.
He didn't say "swallow this shit if you get sick" or "this shit will cure you" or anything like that.
Lots of common medicines, by the way, have really awful side effects, including death sometimes. Only an absolute moron would do what these people did.
Trump should never be making medical comments. Precisely because of what happened in Arizona. Trump said he likes the uneducated. Those people believed they were taking the same thing Trump was touting. They listened to Trump. They didn't bother listening to the doctors. Because, you know, he knows more than they do. Now the gop is literally going to kill their base and have nobody left to vote for them because the rest of us listen to the experts and plan to live and vote this shit out.
Well then neither should any of us.
What does "touting" mean? He never said it would cure the virus. He said he was encouraged by the report. He said it could be a game changer. He didn't say it was. If you're going to blame people's actions on the words Trump says, you should at least be honest about what he said.
That is clearly not true because he never said anybody should be taking the stuff.
Big difference between me and you and the POTUS. One is on TV every time he opens his mouth. The other two? Not so much.
Do you NOT love the poorly educated? Are they beneath your capacity for love because of their education?
Please show us all how he has prevented any doctors from discussing medications.
Saying that certain drugs or treatments show promise is a far, far cry from recommending them.
There is a reason we rely upon doctors and pharmacists with years of training and experience to provide us with appropriate medications. There is a reason we use professional chemists and biologists to develop and test our medications and why government oversight of same is employed.
OMG, science. There'll be a lot of pear clutching after that comment.
In my long, long experience in aquatics, I have never heard of a Chloroquine Phosphate (CP) "fish tank cleaner".
CP is strictly used for killing parasitic infections of fish stock, primarily from fresh and salt water ick.
So I guess if you were twisting words, you could say that it "cleans" or "sterilizes" a quarantine or hospital tank.
CP is strictly a medicine and like all things, if not used in moderation, deadly.
There is no telling how much these sad sacks took.
A wild ass guess would be 2 tablets per hundred pounds which is the equivalent of 10 gallons of water and may or may not be safe at that level but 2 tablets per 10 gallons is common.
Btw it says right on the bottle, not for human consumption...
Perhaps they are not actually humans...perhaps they are Illegal Aliens? (Yet just another reason why we need a fence on our Southern Border!)
It's amazing these people have lived to this old age. How did they avoid walking in front of a bus on the assumption that buses get people where they're going?
Good question!
You'd think they would have at least tested it on one instead of both dosing at the same time. I hope they didn't have children and if they did I hope they're not as stupid as their parents.
States: "Trump, we need ventilators!!!"
Trump: "Ok, but i'll need a favor though.."
States: "OK, what favor?"
Trump: "Have you heard of Hunter Biden?"
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Well, I have to admit I'm disappointed!
When I first saw the title of this seed I was hoping that there would be a large, full colour picture (suitable for framing) of Dear Leader-- so I could put it on my mantle in a place of honor and worship it every day!
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Trumpyrite is wrong
TDS Truth Denied (By) Shitstain in chief
is just over the top
as i've stated for over FOUR FUCKEN YEARS,
yet,
STILL
must state it, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day STILL
WTF AMERICA
WAKE THE FUCK UP !
HE does not give a shit about ANY OF US !
.
PERIOD
That one is perfect!