TheDrug agency publishes this Wednesday April 22 a study on our consumption of pharmaceuticals during the first two weeks of containment. And there is a link with our level of anxiety and our knowledge of the coronavirus.
As some rushed to toilet paper and pasta, patients with chronic illnesses rushed to pharmacies to buy their usual medications: + 30% for anti medication hypertension, + 42% for insulin the first week of containment.
At the same time, 1.5 million additional buyers were registered for doliprane while ibuprofen, considered dangerous in the case of coronavirus, saw its sales fall by 62%.
At the heart of debates about the treatment of the disease, chloroquine also recorded an increase in sales. Overall, it was bought by people under the age of 60 who were sensitive to announcements from the professor Raoult in Marseille, mainly in the Bouches-du-Rhône and in the Paris region.
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