Government-approved drug is implicated in a nurse’s death
When a government-approved drug is implicated in a nurse’s death, isn’t it time to think again about whether it should be used in a mass trial?
For clarity: the BBC is reporting that the death of North Lanarkshire nurse Susan McGowan has been linked to the use of ‘weight-loss’ (in fact it is used to treat diabetes) drug tirzepatide – known under the brand name Mounjaro:
Her death certificate, seen by the BBC, lists multiple organ failure, septic shock and pancreatitis as the immediate cause of death – but “the use of prescribed tirzepatide” is also recorded as a contributing factor.
This Site reported less than a month ago that Mounjaro is set to be prescribed to nearly 250,000 people in a trial of whether its weight-loss side-effect will reduce worklessness and the burden on the NHS.
If one of its effects is fatal, then This Writer can predict that the NHS may enjoy a lower long-term burden, and the number of unemployment benefit claims may also fall – but there is unlikely to be a consequent rise in the number of people in work.
The rise is likely to be in the number of people going to their graves.
From This Writer’s point of view, the death of a single person related to this drug should be enough to suspend the trial.
With a sample group of a quarter of a million people, the statistical likelihood of someone else going to their death seems not just to be high – but a certainty.
No national government should approve a process that is certain to kill members of the population when it doesn’t absolutely have to happen; the first duty of any government is to protect the population.
But what will Wes Streeting [pictured] do?
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We know the symptoms that led to her death but not what CAUSED them. The drug is listed as a ‘contributing factor’ only and not as ‘the cause’ So it seems more likely that something has caused her to have a major problem and that the drug has worsened that. As she had medical advice, was well versed in medicine herself it would seem that it would have been considered as safe for her to take this drug as anyone else. There may be many people who have died after taking this drug (29?) but there’s no indication that they died from taking it. Correlation does not equal causation, as they say. And as a follow up – ‘more research is needed’
But to pick up another point – what trial? The drugs have been trialled and approved as both safe and effective (although this doesn’t mean that no one could EVER have a reaction and die – just that it’s a sufficiently low number to be considered tolerable) We know, for instance, that many people die from common drugs (aside from drug abuse) every year. Not only was this trialled and approved for diabetes but it was also trialled and approved for weight-loss (about two years ago?)
And looking back to the anti-vaxxers when COVID was more prevalent we find that they were telling us of every death of a person who’d had a vaccine (unrelated or not to their death) whilst forgetting that (up until March last year) 13 billion doses have been given out.
Incomplete data and a lack of research makes for great headlines but poor fact checking..