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Drug that Trump called a ‘miracle Covid cure’ is linked to 17,000 deaths (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A drug infamously touted by Donald Trump has been linked to nearly 17,000 Covid deaths in a new scientific study.

Researchers say that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was prescribed to patients during the first wave of Covid-19 “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits.”

The French study estimated that 16,990 patients in the US, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Turkey may have died as a result of the drug.

The study has been published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.

Researchers say the data used comes from a study published in the Nature scientific journal, which reported that there was an 11 per cent increase in mortality rate linked to the drug’s prescription.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Killing your supporters, brilliant move. 4d chess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

It's bc he thought it would affect the cities (where dems live) way more, which of course he had zero issues with because he has only child feelings. By the time his version of thinking was vaguely able to realize that unvaxxed people (his cultists) died way more even in rural areas, his stupid smelly broken brain wouldn't allow him to think he was wrong about something. So he started throwing random words (like hydroxychloroquin) at the wall in hopes that something would work, and even though it didn't he couldn't go back on anything he'd ever vomited out of his piehole.

Basically maintaining his false image of himself as someone literally incapable of error is way more important for him than anything else, otherwise he'd have to confront a lifetime of failure. That'd be a monumental task for even the most resilient people, let alone one of the weakest and most pathetic cowards ever to have lived.