First Trump promotes hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, which can prolong the heart’s QT interval causing sudden cardiac death. Now Ben Carson and the MyPillow guy promote oleandrin, which poisons the heart’s Na⁺/K⁺ pump. Just because they have no heart they want to destroy ours.
The issue with this for diehard Trump supporters is that Ben Carson is a doctor. Or was. Or some shit. And documentaries about him make him out to be a brilliant person. So that’s going to be a hard row to hoe.
This is a particular problem in our heart cells, which use the sodium gradient to pump calcium ions out by letting sodium ions in. Calcium builds up in our heart cells which at first can increase their contractility but at higher levels can cause heart rhythm problems and death.
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