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1/7 #ManuscriptMonday! 📄 Let’s talk about chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, which were recently FDA-approved for treatment of COVID-19. There has been a lot of hype and misinformation surrounding the drugs. One particular study by Gautret et al. ⬇️ was published... 
2/7 ...in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, and tweeted by President Trump as “one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine.” Since then, patients who take the drugs for other reasons, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus...
3/7 ...have had trouble accessing them due to others stockpiling the medication for their own, off-label use. One American has died and another has been hospitalized due to self-medication with chloroquine phosphate. Many scientists have called the results of the study...
