Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, when taken together, can prolong your heart’s QT interval, which is the time it takes for the ventricles to contract and relax. Early after-depolarizations during this time can cause torsades de pointes and lead to sudden cardiac death.

Doctors who prescribe hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for the coronavirus and put their patients into fatal ventricular arrhythmias like torsades de pointes must be sued for malpractice and lose their licenses to practice medicine. Let this be a warning to all those who dare.

Human beings are not guinea pigs. We took a solemn oath to “first, do no harm.” That means not testing drugs that have deadly side effects without any proven benefit against the coronavirus with no evidence from clinical trials. This is the most basic rule of ethics in medicine.