aquarium cleaner as a Covid cure attempt

[Mark_C]

Needless to say, it didnt work out well.

Arizona man dies after taking chloroquine for coronavirus

An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

www.reuters.com

 

[MadReefer]

Competing for this year's Darwin Award.

 

[jgraz]

Haha
I was dipping corals over the weekend and told my wife who is an RN, if she gets it at work I could try and dip her in Coral RX or Bayer to see if it kills it.

 

[Haus]

Based on her quotes here doesn’t even sound like they had covid; "I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, 'Hey, isn't that the stuff they're talking about on TV?'" she said, according to the broadcasting company. "We were afraid of getting sick."

Arizona man dies after self-medicating to treat coronavirus

An Arizona man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they both took the drug chloroquine phosphate, which has been touted as a treatment for coronavirus despite a lack of study on it or approval by federal health agencies.

www.google.com

 

[horseplay]

He must've been treating his wild fish prophylactically and figured doing the same to himself.

 

[Humblefish]

So, this has been bugging me as I knew there had to be more to the story. First there's this:

That pharmaceutical name matched the label on a bottle of chemicals they used to clean their koi pond, NBC News reported

Many sources repeat that the woman said it was a "Koi pond cleaner", including the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/24/coronavirus-chloroquine-poisoning-death/

So, what other ingredients were contain therein? But for the sake of argument let's say the only listed ingredient in the "Koi pond cleaner" was Chloroquine:

They each mixed 1 teaspoon of the chloroquine phosphate with soda. Within 20 minutes, the woman began vomiting and her husband had trouble breathing. The woman called paramedics, and the couple were admitted to a Banner Health hospital.

Source: Man Dead From Taking Chloroquine Product After Trump Touts Drug For Coronavirus

So, I weighed 1 teaspoon of chloroquine phosphate and it weighs 3.56 grams. That's well above the 400mg - 1 gram experimental doses for treating COVID-19, and anything above 2 grams has been long considered a dangerous "suicide dose" of Chloroquine.

So, while these two were idiots for self-medicating (esp ingesting "Koi pond cleaner")... There's a little more to the story than the mainstream news media is telling you.