Brazil recommends chloroquine to treat even mild COVID-19 cases

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Brazil's health ministry recommended Wednesday using chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat even mild cases of COVID-19, a treatment ...

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But some studies have cast doubt on the drugs' effectiveness and safety against coronavirus.

The health ministry acknowledged that"there are still no meta-analyses of randomised, controlled, blind, large-scale clinical trials of these medications in the treatment of COVID-19." However, it said the government had a responsibility to issue guidelines using the information currently available.However, other studies have cast doubt on their effectiveness and raised concerns about the potential for heart, liver and kidney problems, as well as nerve damage.after less than a month on the job, reportedly after clashing with Bolsonaro over the far-right president's insistence on recommending chloroquine against COVID-19.

Bolsonaro, who has compared the new coronavirus to a"little flu" and railed against social distancing measures to fight it, fired Teich's predecessor, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, also after clashing over how to respond to the pandemic.It registered more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, its highest yet, bringing its total death toll to 17,971.

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