8 Jun 2020

Hydroxychloroquine studies retracted

From Lately, 10:45 pm on 8 June 2020

It's one of the harder words in the news cycle to say, but Hydroxychloroquine has been popping up in headlines for weeks as debate persists about its use in treating coronavirus. On Friday the authors of two studies looking at the use of the drug to treat Covid 19 retracted their their work. 

Dr Susan Morpeth is a Clinical Microbiologist and infectious diseases physician at Middlemore Hospital.

A pharmacy tech pours out pills of Hydroxychloroquine at Rock Canyon Pharmacy in Provo, Utah, on May 20, 2020.

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