The medico-political-media soap opera of hydroxychloroquine, an abundance of criticized scientific studies, intimate convictions and even irrationality between “pro” or “anti”, begins a new sequence of his crazy story. Title of this episode: the halt. The story started on Friday. In a resoundingly echoing study published that day in the prestigious and very serious medical journal The Lancet, researchers have announced that their work concludes that chloroquine (or its derivative, hydroxychloroquine, promoted in France by professor Didier Raoult) is ineffective for hospital patients. Declaring, moreover, that their observations showed an increase in mortality and an increase in cardiac arrhythmias associated with the use of this treatment. Before concluding : “These results suggest that these drug regimens should not be used outside of clinical trials and confirm the urgency of the need for trials.
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Anaïs Moran
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