Hyped Malaria Pill (Hydroxychloroquine) Doesn't Help Clear Coronavirius in Study

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/hyped-malaria-pill-doesnt-help-clear-coronavirus-in-study/ar-BB12EEbv?ocid=spartanntp

Hydroxychloroquine, the 65-year-old malaria drug that President Donald Trump has praised, appeared not to help patients get rid of the pathogen in a small study.

The pill didn’t help patients clear the virus better than standard care and was much more likely to cause side effects, according to a study of 150 hospitalized patients by doctors at 16 centers in China. The research, which hasn’t been peer-reviewed, was released Tuesday.

The drug did help alleviate some clinical symptoms of Covid-19, however, and the patients who took it showed a greater drop in C-reactive protein, a measure of inflammation.

“When testing new treatments, we are looking for signals that show that they might be effective before proceeding to larger studies,” said Allen Cheng, an infectious diseases physician and a professor of epidemiology at Melbourne’s Monash University. “This study doesn’t show any signal, so it is probably unlikely that it will be of clinical benefit.”

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1. So much for Trump's expertise.

[Aristus]

2. Since symptomatic treatment is the only treatment right now,

it's probably better administered with other medications that don't have hydroxychloroquine's potential side effects.

[SoonerPride]

3. He's not a doctor, so what does he know?

Jack shit obviously.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Brazil pulled the plug on their study after patients started dying

The orange anus totally owns this Hydroxychloroquine hokum