Doctors see patients at a New Delhi hospital on 18 March. India recommends hydroxychloroquine for health care workers at risk of COVID-19.
By Kai KupferschmidtScience's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.When malaria researcher Nicholas White saw coronavirus infections picking up around the world 2 months ago, he immediately thought of the impact they could have on poorer countries. “In fragile health care systems, if you start knocking out a few nurses and doctors, the whole thing can collapse,” says White, who is based at Mahidol University in Bangkok. “So we realized that the priority would be to protect them.”White and his colleagues at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit wondered whether widely