The malaria drug chloroquine. that the Meijel GP Rob Elens prescribed in combination with other medicines to corona patients does not work.
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Medical journal The Lancet published a large study on Friday that shows this.
Greater risk
The doctors and researchers have found no effect of chloroquine on patients with Covid-19. It appears that the malaria medicine can cause cardiac arrhythmias, which increases the mortality risk in corona patients who use the medicine.
100,000 patients
The scientists examined about 100,000 corona patients in different hospitals. They divided them into five groups: patients treated with hydroxychloroquine, patients who received chloroquine and then two groups who received the drugs in combination with antibiotics. Patients who did not receive any of the drugs were also studied.
Numbers
The latter group’s death rate was 9 percent, the article said. Of the groups given hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, 18 and 16.4 percent died, respectively. That percentage was even higher among corona patients who received the medicines in combination with antibiotics.
Nine patients
Elens prescribed the drug to nine patients who did not have to go to the hospital. They all recovered from the virus. In addition to chloroquine, the Meijel GP also prescribed azithromycin and zinc. Before that, he was criticized by the Health Care Inspectorate in early April. The reason for this was that Erens did not conduct his experiment according to the guidelines, and that the improper use could lead to a possible shortage.
Trump
Chloroquine came to the attention because the drug was promoted early by US President Donald Trump. The American head of state also uses the drug to prevent him from being infected with the virus.
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