Topic: hydroxychloroquine

Brazil adrift as virus toll approaches 100,000

Brazil adrift as virus toll approaches 100,000

Paula Ramon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 06 11:14 AM

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Five months after confirming its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil is fast approaching the bleak milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, a tragedy experts blame on the country's lack of coherent response. Read more »

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 90,000

Brazil's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 90,000

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 30 08:11 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil registered record daily numbers of infections and deaths from the new coronavirus Wednesday, sending its overall death toll surging past 90,000 people.   Read more »

Trump ditches new tone on coronavirus to tout questionable theories

Trump ditches new tone on coronavirus to tout questionable theories

Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 29 11:17 AM

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's much heralded new tone on the coronavirus pandemic evaporated Tuesday in a burst of misleading medical speculation, criticism for his own top virus expert, and praise for an eccentric preacher-doctor touting conspiracy theories. Read more »

Reptilians and 'demon sperm': US viral video doctor's odd beliefs

Reptilians and 'demon sperm': US viral video doctor's odd beliefs

Issam Ahmed, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 29 08:17 AM

WASHINGTON - A Houston physician who praised hydroxychloroquine as a miracle coronavirus cure in a viral video retweeted by President Donald Trump blames gynecological problems on sex with evil spirits and believes the US government is run by "reptilians." Read more »

WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials

WHO halts hydroxychloroquine, HIV drugs in COVID trials

Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Updated as of Jul 05 07:32 AM

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday that it was discontinuing its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 after they failed to reduce mortality. Read more »

WHO says looking at interim trial data on HIV drugs to treat COVID-19

WHO says looking at interim trial data on HIV drugs to treat COVID-19

Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 08:51 PM

LONDON/GENEVA - Large multi-country trials of the combination HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir to treat COVID-19 have recruited thousands of patients and the World Health Organization is now looking at interim data, the UN agency's chief scientist said on Thursday. Read more »

WHO halts trial of malaria drug in COVID-19 patients

WHO halts trial of malaria drug in COVID-19 patients

Kate Kelland and Emma Farge, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 09:27 AM

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that testing of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in its large multi-country trial of treatments for COVID-19 patients had been halted after new data and studies showed no benefit.   Read more »

'No benefit' from hydroxychloroquine for virus: UK trial

'No benefit' from hydroxychloroquine for virus: UK trial

Kelly Macnamara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 09 07:56 AM

A major British clinical trial has found hydroxychloroquine has "no benefit" for patients hospitalized with COVID-19, scientists said Friday, in the first large-scale study to provide results for a drug at the center of political and scientific controversy. Read more »

Authors pull study flagging hydroxychloroquine risks

Authors pull study flagging hydroxychloroquine risks

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 05 06:41 AM

Three of the 4 authors behind a large-scale study in The Lancet that raised safety fears over the use of common anti-malarial drugs to treat COVID-19 retracted their paper on Thursday, blaming a health care company that supplied the dataset. Read more »

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