Questioning the Use of Chloroquine for the Treatment of Covid-19 Patients

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Sigit Purwanto was nervous when he learned that the swab test results showed he was infected with the corona virus in mid-July. Together with 46 health workers, nurses from the Pundong District Public Health Center, Bantul, Yogyakarta, he underwent a swab test because he often had contact with patients and was at … Read more

BPOM Urges People to Not Use These Three Drugs Free

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Director of Registration Drug National Agency of Drug and Food Control ( BPOM) Rizka Andalucia reminded people not to buy drug hydroxychloroquine, chloroquine and dexamethasone without a doctor’s prescription to treat corona virus infection ( Covid-19). Because, the three drugs are classified as hard drugs that require doctor supervision in the process … Read more

Coronavirus: the scientist and the after

The era is paradoxical. With the coronavirus crisis, there has probably never been more talk of science in the media than in political discourse. The rate of reproduction, the cytokine storm, the protective antibodies are in everyone’s mouth. And yet the streak is not a triumph of reason. We feel like a bitter aftertaste in … Read more

Chloroquine: prohibited but still prescribed

Ending for hydroxychloroquine? It took international studies, a lot of procrastination and an inaudible media hubbub for the Ministry of Health, by a decree published Wednesday May 27 in the Official Journal, to finally ban hydroxychloroquine as a treatment against Covid-19. → READ. Hydroxychloroquine: its use should be reviewed in France The reality, however, is … Read more

Coronavirus: a block in chloroquine

The medico-political-media soap opera of hydroxychloroquine, an abundance of criticized scientific studies, intimate convictions and even irrationality between “pro” or “anti”, begins a new sequence of his crazy story. Title of this episode: the halt. The story started on Friday. In a resoundingly echoing study published that day in the prestigious and very serious medical … Read more

Bigard in government? – Release

Emmanuel Macron chooses Philippe de Villiers, takes advice from Jean-Marie Bigard, show respect to Professor Didier Raoult, comforts Eric Zemmour. Simple courtesy to characters who matter in the media? After all, the Puy du Fou said De Villiers is a popular spectacle, the debate on the treatment of coronavirus at the Raoult stirred opinion, the … Read more

Increased mortality with chloroquine

The authorization to issue in Covid-19, which is already derogatory, is likely to be revised. Disappointment for those who expected to benefit from chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine (a less toxic derivative) protocol, at the early stage of Covid sufficiently disturbing to require hospitalization. A study published on May 22 in the international scientific journal The Lancet … Read more

Study overwhelms chloroquine: it would increase the death rate of coronavirus patients

Harvard and Zurich researchers have evaluated an observational study of 96,000 patients with Covid-19. – Donald Trump announced Monday that he would take hydrochloroquine as a preventative against coronavirus. Today, a study of 96,000 patients worldwide shows that those treated with this drug have a higher mortality rate. Hydrochloroquine and chloroquine, two malaria drugs, have … Read more

increased hospital mortality from choloroquine and hydroxychloroquine

Analysis of nearly 15,000 Covid-19 patients treated with these drugs within 24 hours of diagnosis shows a significant increase in mortality. –The study was published on May 22 in the leading scientific journal The Lancet. JUSTIN SULLIVAN / AFP This is not yet the signal for the complete cessation of the use of chloroquine or … Read more

Chloroquine: “In this case, the state did not play its role”

Professor Bernard Begaud, pharmacologist, former president of the University of Bordeaux, chaired the monitoring committee for clinical trials within the French Medicines Agency (ANSM) for more than fifteen years. He returns for Release on chloroquine, and points to the inconsistency and lack of coordination of the trials in progress. After three months of waiting, do … Read more