As Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Townsend reviewed, approved, and published the article titled: "Deaths induced by compassionate use of hydroxychloroquine during the first COVID-19 wave: An estimate." The article was always a hypothesized estimate of people that might have died, but now even that estimate has been retracted.
The RECOVERY trial is well known to be a deeply flawed study which, in addition to implementing late treatment in severely ill Covid patients, used extremely high doses of HCQ. The now retracted publication authors were all French or Canadian, with the primary author a pharmacist by the name of Alexiane Pradelle.
Hydroxychloroquine's Fabled Safety History Contrasts Data In addition to being a hypothesized estimate, the article also attacked the legendary safety of HCQ, contradicting centuries of the safety of quinolines as a class.
HCQ, chloroquine and quinine are structurally and pharmaceutically/mechanistically related, sharing the same quinoline structural group.
Quinine is still available today both as a prescription drug, for similar indications as HCQ including malariaand as a Covid-19 treatment.
Winston Churchill once declared, "The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives and minds than all the doctors in the Empire." HCQ is similarly safe when used appropriately and under medical supervision.
The CDC describes HCQ as "a relatively well tolerated medicine" and that "HCQ can be prescribed to adults and children of all ages. It can also be safely taken by pregnant women and nursing mothers" referring to its long-term use in chronic diseases.
Did not even one person on her editorial board of over 50 "Peer-reviewers" and staff ponder the celebrated and storied history of HCQ and how incongruent this study's findings were before choosing to publish data denigrating HCQ safety? The correct answer to that might actually be: "No" The publishing editorial board all seem to be laboratory bench research scientists, per their biographies.
Still, Josh Cohen, a Forbes.com PhD senior healthcare columnist, used this publication to headline an absurdly biased op-ed against HCQ, stating that Trump's HCQ proposal was "Linked To 17,000 Deaths." Forbes' Tufts, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania- trained "Healthcare analyst" misrepresented or appeared to not understand the now-retracted study methodology or projections.
Mere hours following the publication, very similar, now objectively inaccurate, highly politicized, and seemingly coordinated attacks on HCQ and Trump were published by: The Hill, Politico, Frontline News, Scripps News, the Guardian, KFF Health News, News Nation, Newsweek, AOL.com, Yahoo News, and Daily Kos, in addition to a multitude of prominent regional, international, and US federal news outlets, many falsely estimating that 17,000 deaths had already taken place and that the victims' blood was already on Donald Trump's hands.
At that point, untold millions around the world had already been polluted with outrageously incorrect information about non-existent HCQ deaths.
https://brownstone.org/articles/those-published-17000-hydroxychloroquine-deaths-never-happened/
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