- Researchers in the UK have put an abrupt stop to another COVID-19 trial involving the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine.
"We reviewed the data and concluded that there is no evidence of a beneficial effect of hydroxychloroquine in patients hospitalized with Covid and decided to stop enrolling patients to the hydroxychloroquine arm, with immediate effect, and that has been actioned this morning," Martin Landray, deputy chief investigator of the trial and a professor at the University of Oxford, said during a media briefing on Friday.
About the study: The data showed that after about 28 days, 25.7% of the patients who received hydroxychloroquine had died compared with 23.5% of patients who received usual care alone. "I think we can say that this data convincingly rule out any meaningful mortality benefit," Landray said."Our conclusion is that this treatment does not reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19 among hospital patients. That clearly has a significant importance for the way that patients are treated not only in the UK, but all around the world."
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