WHO panel issues strong advice against hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

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Former US President Trump said last March that hydroxychloroquine could be a game-changer in the coronavirus pandemic. He also said he was taking it himself.

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The drug hydroxychloroquine, once touted by Donald Trump as a pandemic"game-changer," should not be used to prevent COVID-19 and has no meaningful effect on patients already infected, a World Health Organization expert panel said on Tuesday, March 2.

This"strong recommendation," the experts said, is based on high-certainty evidence from six randomized controlled trials involving more than 6,000 participants both with and without known exposure to COVID-19. But the WHO's experts said they now"judged that almost all people would not consider this drug worthwhile."

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And now it was proven, Trump was right all along!

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