Researchers cut chloroquine study short over safety concerns, citing a 'primary outcome' of death
Source: CNBC
Citing a primary outcome of death, researchers cut short a study testing anti-malaria drug chloroquine as a potential treatment for Covid-19 after some patients developed irregular heart rates and nearly two dozen of them died after taking doses of the drug daily.
Scientists say the findings, published Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association, should prompt some degree of skepticism from the public toward enthusiastic claims about and perhaps serve to curb the exuberant use of the drug, which has been touted by President Donald Trump as a potential game-changer in the fight against the coronavirus.
Chloroquine gained widespread international attention following two small studies, including one with 36 Covid-19 patients published March 17 in France, found that most patients taking the drug cleared the coronavirus from their system a lot faster than the control group. The JAMA report said those trials didnt meet the publishing societys standards.
These weak findings, bolstered by anecdotal reports and media attention, have fostered widespread belief in the efficacy of these agents, according to a separate warning about prescribing the drugs issued Friday alongside the new JAMA study.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/24/coronavirus-citing-a-primary-outcome-of-death-researchers-cut-chloroquine-study-short-over-safety-concerns.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Everything Trump touches, or even talks about, dies.
Greg K
(599 posts)SouthernCal_Dem
(852 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,472 posts)her support for this quack remedy/cure spouted by tRUMP - May get be more accurate to call it her helping to solidify the idea into his tiny brainpan.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)soliciting Harmed Persons for a Class Action Suit against the Orange Anus and his crew. You just know it is coming.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)for most of their policies
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)not being anywhere near a doctor should be charged with murder and practicing without a license................and then have that orange blob playing doctor and practicing without a license should be IMPEACHED............again for playing doctor.............
NNadir
(33,561 posts)...
The full paper, open sourced, is here:
Effect of High vs Low Doses of Chloroquine Diphosphate as Adjunctive Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection A Randomized Clinical Trial (Mayla Gabriela Silva Borba, MD1,2; Fernando Fonseca Almeida Val, PhD1,2; Vanderson Souza Sampaio, PhD1,2,3; et al, JAMA, April 24, 2020.)
This fool, the so called "President of the United States" should be arrested for practicing medicine without a license, and sued for malpractice.
Pluvious
(4,323 posts)Truly, we are the Number One Stupid Country on the planet.