Wednesday, 22 April 2020

No benefit, higher death rate for malaria drug in coronavirus study

‘A malaria drug [hydroxychloroquine] widely touted as a potential cure for Covid-19 showed no benefit against the disease over standard care - and was in fact associated with more deaths, the biggest study of its kind showed on Tuesday (April 21). The US government funded analysis of how American military veterans fared on hydroxychloroquine was posted on a medical preprint site and has not yet been peer reviewed.’

Read here (Straits Times, April 22, 2020)

Worst ever Covid variant? Omicron

John Campbell shares his findings on Omicron.  View here (Youtube, Nov 27, 2021)