The National Institutes of Health has halted its study of hydroxychloroquine, saying the drug appeared to provide 'no additional benefit compared to placebo control' for treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds a bottle of hydroxychloroquine while raising concerns about its use.Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Ge
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds a bottle of hydroxychloroquine while raising concerns about its use.The National Institutes of Health has halted its study of hydroxychloroquine, a drug President Donald Trump has promoted as a possible treatment for COVID-19 and once claimed to be taking himself.issued on Saturday, the agency said that although it did not appear hydroxychloroquine caused harm to patients in the study, it was also"very unlikely to be beneficial.
"The data from this study indicate that this drug provided no additional benefit compared to placebo control for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients," according to the NIH. The announcement could represent the final judgement in the effort to determine whether the drug can be used to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19, an illness that has infected more than 2.2 million Americans and which has claimed
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