Professor Didier Raoult, infectious disease specialist and director of the IHU in Marseille, defends the efficacy of chloroquine against the coronavirus. – GERARD JULIEN / AFP
New tackle from Didier raoult. In his point
video weekly posted on his YouTube channel, the professor
marseillais, director of the IHU, again strongly criticized the study published by The Lancet which contradicts his conclusions on the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus. “The LancetGate is such a comical symptom that, in the end, it looks like” Nickel-plated feet do science “. This is not reasonnable. “
A study, published May 22 in the scientific journal The Lancet, concludes that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), derived from the antimalarial chloroquine, is not effective against Covid-19 and that it even increases the risk of death and cardiac arrhythmia. Its methodology, however, has been called into question by part of the scientific community, as had the methodologies of previous studies praising its effectiveness. The study prompted many countries to stop using the molecule, most notably France.
