Tag: Hydroxychloroquine
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Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: Trump backs Dr Stella Immanuel, calls her ‘spectacular, impressive’
U.S. President Donald Trump has described as “impressive” and “spectacular” Dr Stella Immanuel and her sensational video prescribing hydroxychloroquine as cure for COVID-19. His comment came just as social media companies cracked down on the viral coronavirus disinformation that came out of the Doctors summit event, where Immanuel spoke in Washington D.C. That didn’t perturb…
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WHO discontinues trial of hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19 patients
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has discontinued the use of hydroxychloroquine and lopinavir/ritonavir in its global trial for treatment of COVID-19 as recommended by the Solidarity Trial’s International Steering Committee. The UN health agency, in a statement posted on its website, stated that the Solidarity Trial was established by WHO to find an…
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WHO to resume trial of hydroxycholoroquine on COVID-19
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it will resume its trial of hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this in official twitter account of the UN health agency. According to him, the hydroxychloroquine section of the WHO’s Solidarity Trial can resume after being paused temporarily on May…
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France counters U.S, bans use of Hydroxychloroquine as treatment for COVID-19 patients
The French government on Wednesday canceled a decree allowing hospital doctors to administer hydroxychloroquine as a treatment to patients suffering severe forms of COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus. The ban, which takes immediate effect, is the first by a country since the World Health Organisation said on Monday it was pausing a…
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COVID-19: WHO suspends trial of hydroxychloroquine over safety concerns
A clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 has been ’temporarily’ suspended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Director-General of the UN health agency, Tedros Ghebreyesus, in a virtual press conference on Monday said the decision follows a study in the Lancet indicating that use of the drug on COVID-19 patients…
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COVID-19: Trump admits self-medicating with hydroxychloroquine, dismisses warnings on side effects
U.S. President Donald Trump admitted on Monday that he has been on self-medication for about 10 days, taking the malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine. He told reporters he has been taking it with a zinc supplement to lessen COVID-19 symptoms should he contract it. So far, the drug is unproven for fighting COVID-19. Trump spent weeks pushing…
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Largest trial: Trump’s hydroxychloroquine fails on treatment of Covid-19, increases deaths
A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care, researchers reported. The nationwide study was not a rigorous experiment. But with 368 patients, it’s the…
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COVID-19 patient claims hydroxychloroquine saved his life
A 52 years old Florida man, Rio Giardinieri, who was down with the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is claiming that yet to be approved antimalarial drug, hydroxychloroquine saved his life. Giardinieri was diagnosed of COVID-19 and pneumonia at the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in South Florida, and was put on oxygen in the intensive care unit…