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Med student | AIIMS New Delhi | Aspiring Neurologist-scientist | Tennis enthusiast | Tweets are my own views
May 24, 2020 11 tweets 7 min read
Correspondence justifying ICMR's guideline for using #HCQ for prophylaxis in healthcare workers, in @TheLancet by AIIMS medicine department. My first thought: "They're the experts, so there must be some good science behind it!" To convince myself, I dig a little deeper
1/n Ref 4: open-label, non-randomized trial. 26 received HCQ (but 6 lost to follow up), 16 controls. Adjusted for age and sex. NO DATA ON CO-MORBIDITIES. Result-HCQ led to significant reduction of viral carriage ar D6. Azithromycin if added more efficient. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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