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WHO says hydroxychloroquine won't stop Covid-19 deaths

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LONDON : The World Health Organisation's top scientist says it's now been definitively proven that the cheap malaria drug hydroxychloroquine — the drug favoured by President Donald Trump — doesn't work in stopping deaths among people hospitalized with the new coronavirus.But Dr.

Soumya Swaminathan said there could still be a role for the drug in preventing people from catching COVID-19 in the first place and noted that clinical trials testing hydroxychloroquine's role in this are ongoing.Swaminathan said in a press briefing on Thursday that there is still a gap in determining whether hydroxychloroquine has a role at all in prevention or minimizing the severity of the illness in early infection or even in preventing it.She says: “We don't.

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