COVID-19: Could Hydroxychloroquine Really Be An Answer?

Could the old generic malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil, Sanofi-Aventis, among others), which is also used for the treatment of rheumatic disease, be an essential treatment for COVID-19? This hypothesis, put forward by some, including Professor Didier Raoult of the IHU M é diterran é e Infection in Marseille, was dismissed by other eminent infectious disease specialists and dismissed as fake news recently by the Ministry of Health.Yet it resurfaced yesterday with a presentation on You Tube by Prof Raoult of positive results in a non-randomised, unblinded trial of 24 patients.
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