• modeler@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Not quite. The drug causes heart irregularities in some people at therapeutic doses, and this killed some of those 17k people. It just doesn’t quantify it here.

    • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      10 months ago

      The study does quantify the cardiac risk from HCQ. Those causes of death are included in the all-causes mortality rate previously determined by a separate meta analysis