French study finds hydroxychloroquine doesn't help patients with coronavirus
Source: CNN
A drug that's been touted by President Donald Trump as a "game changer" didn't help hospitalized patients with coronavirus and was associated with heart complications, according to a new study.
"This provides evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not apparently treat patients with Covid 19," said Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "Even worse, there were side effects caused by the drug -- heart toxicities that required it be discontinued."
In the new study, among the 84 patients who took hydroxychloroquine, 20.2% were admitted to the ICU or died within seven days of taking the drug. Among the 97 patients who did not take the drug, 22.1% went to the ICU or died.
"These results do not support the use of [hydroxychloroquine] in patients hospitalised for documented SARSCoV-2-positive hypoxic pneumonia," the study authors wrote.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/new-french-study-hydroxychloroquine/index.html
Another Trump lie exposed.
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daily presser, his head is really going to explode.............and still call it Hoax, maybe he can get the governor of South Dakota standing behind him, since she is a big supporter of the drug.........or Desantis, he also support the use of this drug, in fact maybe they will bring up French Fries being un-american for old time sake, since the french are basically saying it don't work......................
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