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.
How can you say it’s not effective? Do those 17,000 dead people still have COVID? /s
17000 deaths… Within a limited set of countries, so the entire amount world wide will be much, MUCH higher.
Trump is the direct cause that covid got that big in the US, he directly recommended shit like this medication, hell he recommended injecting bleach.
Trump is DIRECTLY responsible for the deaths of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.
But hey, let’s make him president again!
hell he recommended injecting bleach
Okay…first and foremost: Trump is a fascist moron, an absolute danger to everyone, and can go fuck himself. However, he did not recommend injecting bleach. He VERY STUPIDLY asked his task force if it was something we could do.
Even so, the “one minute” disinfectant was actually alcohol, not bleach. It was an interesting presentation very early in the process when we didn’t know much.
But leave it up to the media to turn that into “injecting bleach.” Repeat a lie enough, people will believe it.
It was as interesting as observing that a handgun kills cancer cells, and have we tried that? It was never not incredibly dumb.
Which you could argue is also a large component of the inflation we’ve had. We wouldn’t have had to massively stimulate the economy if there wasn’t a pandemic. But it was all Biden, charging you more for eggs, right?
Even if 10% of those people took it because he told them to, that’s 1700 deaths on his head.
I haven’t even killed one person.
You’re way behind… /s
Shiity kd/r
Given they’re still alive, their k/d is undefined
No, it’s infinite
Is that a math joke? 😋
1st, I doubt he cares or even thinks about it.
2nd, if we’re talking about his actions leading to deaths, I’d say this one is his top-performer (5/10/2018):
https://x.com/atomicanalyst/status/994696175575068672?s=46&t=g3yM8UdEINqcLyXIxWs-lg
You’ll never make it as a conservative.
That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me. ;)
There’s no such thing as an innocent billionaire.
No one gets to $1bn without being a total cunt. It’s impossible.
I haven’t even killed one person.
Have you even made the effort?
People are so lazy these days.
Sorry, I’m a millennial. I can’t afford a gun because I buy so much avocado toast and coffee.
Heck, when I was a kid, people were buying rocks with googly eyes on them. You can’t kill a person with a rock if you just put in a little effort! Have to explain everything to kids these days.
As a millennial, I my genx/bb father never stuck around, so “throwing” is only something I can do with garbage—in the correct receptacle, compost, trash, cans, plastic, glass. Don’t tell me it goes to the same spot, I can’t hear you with my AirPods in. La la la
If you’re counting indirect deaths, then you’ve probably been responsible for someone’s death and not known it. (Edit: If it’s not obvious, this is supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek)
There’s a big difference between the kind of causality where you cause someone to leave their house 5 minutes later than they would have, ultimately resulting in a fatal car crash that wouldn’t have happened otherwise, and people dying because they did something you encouraged them to do
Yes, in hindsight, I don’t think “responsible” was the right word.
I’ve always wondered about that. I worked at walmart for years. Lots of alcohol. Did I help a drunk driving death? Or who knows what else. Lots of kitchen knives and shit like that. What about hammers? Lots of stuff I sold could be used to kill a person.
If you sold a lot of alcohol, you’ve almost certainly contributed to a death. Between drunk driving, stupid alcohol decisions, and cancer, alcohol is pretty much the most dangerous drug we have in terms of societal damage (because its usage is so widespread).
I probably shouldn’t have used the word “responsible”, though. If person A miles up the road was driving slightly over the speed limit they might make it through an orange light that they otherwise would have missed. This might place a new car at the front of the queue with person B, and this person may then get hit by a driver that missed a red light, leading to their death. While the chain of events ultimately led to their death, and if Person A had driven the speed limit then person B would probably still be alive, I don’t think you can say person A is responsible.
You most certainly sold alcohol to alcoholics, which contributed to their slow deaths, but that isn’t your fault, because if you wouldn’t have sold it to them, they would have gotten it elsewhere. That’s how addiction works.
Well technically, dying does eliminate COVID from your body.
This is probably the grossest “um, actually” I’ve said ever, but I think technically rotting is what eventually gets rid of the covid in your body. A recently deceased person would still “have” covid in them.
Pretty sure it was a joke
It is. I didn’t misunderstand it, I just wanted to comment on it.
And you comment was absolutely perfect :D (not being sarcastic).
pee pee poo poo
Did you want me to respond in some way or is this a standalone statement?
I never turn down human interaction, but yes it’s a standalone statement.
Wait… they got prescriptions for it?
Where are the malpractice suits? Where are the licensing authorities?
Who would sue the pharmacists? The state probably don’t want anything to do with that and the victims are dead. They probably only have relatives that don’t want or haven’t talked to them in years.
'member when Oklahoma bought $2m worth of hydroxychloroquine at the height of repub’s hysteria, then tried to return them for a refund? Pepperidge Farm 'member.
Apparently, they got their refund.
Unfortunately, the people who need to know the results of this study don’t believe in studies.
And they’re dead.
Some of them are. But I know plenty of Trumpers who consider anything coming out of a university or any study as “fake news.”
Look, nobody kills off his base better than him.
To the tune of Gaston –
"No one kills off their base,
let leopards eat their face,
leave thousands of bodies all over the place…"
The base kills itself off pretty well. They would contest this assertion with as much vigor as they can muster!
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What’s the word we use for a group of people who follow their chosen leader no matter how ridiculous? I can’t remember…
Didn’t some people drink a bunch of poison koolaid once?
/s
It was Flavor Aid, not Kool-Aid
CU_T
CURT?
CUNT!
I beg your pardon!?!?!?
Meanwhile, my local Walmart is fully stocked on horse paste. We were in the pet care section yesterday. A bunch of boxes of apple-flavored ivermectin. And I’m guessing they didn’t have that many because people go to Walmart for horse care supplies.
Capitalism!!!
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Killing your supporters, brilliant move. 4d chess.
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.
Doesn’t has buddy own the company that makes the stuff?
This was a pumb and dump scam that Trump ran right from the White House.
Personally I liked his stint as a bean salesman while in the white house, just casually sitting at the resolute desk hocking beans…just president stuff NBD.
Filtering themselves out. No problems here.
Let’s be real. This dude was doing us a favor by doing this. Anyone dumb enough to listen to him fucking deserves it.
If they were just taking it themselves, that is, unfortunately a lot of these shitwads have children and other dependants.
I don’t know that they deserve it, but as a society, we certainly don’t have the resources to fix MAGA. That level of deprogramming and educating is WAY past our infrastructure and resources.
So death IS an affective alternative, then.
When it’s self-selected death by hateful people who dehumanize others I don’t have a problem with it.
Ironically you’re dehumanizing others by painting them all with a broad stroke. Some people get duped for reasons other than hatred. Do you think the ignorant or the outright stupid deserve to die?
The willful ignorant who were given plenty of notice and free access and chose otherwise? Specifically the arrogant people like that? They deserve the consequences of their choices, yes.
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