A drug that's been touted by President Trump as a 'game changer' didn't help hospitalized patients with coronavirus and was associated with heart complications, according to a new study.
A drug that's been touted by President Donald Trump as a"game changer" didn't help hospitalized patients with coronavirus and was associated with heart complications, according to a new study.
"This provides evidence that hydroxychloroquine does not apparently treat patients with Covid 19," said Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia."Even worse, there were side effects caused by the drug -- heart toxicities that required it be discontinued.
Looking just at deaths, 2.8% of the patients who took hydroxychloroquine died, and 4.6% of the patients who did not take it died. That difference was also not found to be statistically significant. "These results do not support the use of [hydroxychloroquine] in patients hospitalised for documented SARSCoV-2-positive hypoxic pneumonia," the study authors wrote.The study was published Tuesday on medRxiv.
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