I was asked yesterday at the press conference about hydroxychloroquine & chloroquine as treatments for #COVID19 At this time, medical research has not shown these medications to be meaningfully helpful for this disease. Here’s a short thread with just a handful of articles. /1
May 11: “...treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both, compared with neither treatment, was not significantly associated with differences in in-hospital mortality.” ja.ma/2X4JEKO @JAMANetwork /2
June 18: “..our findings do not support the use of hydroxychloroquine at present, outside randomized clinical trials testing its efficacy.” nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… @NEJM /3
July 23: in “...hospitalized patients with confirmed mild-to-moderate Covid-19, a 7-day course of hydroxychloroquine either with azithromycin or alone did not result in better clinical outcomes” nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… @NEJM /4
Seek the right expert for the right advice.
March 24: “An Arizona man has died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate — believing it would protect him from becoming infected with the coronavirus.”
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March 24: “An Arizona man has died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate — believing it would protect him from becoming infected with the coronavirus.”
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