https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-drug-chlorquine-should-not-used-covid-19-because-lethality-primary-outcome-1500119
A randomized clinical trial of whether a malaria drug could be used as a
Covid-19 cure was shut down because its "primary outcome" was death, a
study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed.
Researchers
in Brazil looked at 81 patients with Covid-19, the disease caused by
the novel coronavirus, from March 23 to April 5 to see whether the drug
chloroquine could be an effective treatment for the highly contagious
disease. Forty patients were given a low-dose of the drug; 41 others, a
high dose. They were also given the antibiotic azithromycin.
The
researchers found that 13 people in the low-dose group died, as did 16
in the high-dose group. Another 11 developed heart abnormalities.
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