A petition launched by the former Minister of Health Philippe Douste-Blazy, asking to soften the possibilities of prescribing chloroquine, this treatment whose use against the coronavirus provokes heated debates, exceeded 200,000 signatures on Sunday evening, while a trio of eminent doctors supported Pr Didier Raoult.
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The petition called “#NePerdonsPlusDeTemps”, launched on Friday on the Change.org platform, aims to extend hydroxychloroquine treatments for patients with Covid-19, by authorizing their prescription without waiting for them to have an aggravated stage of the disease.
In addition, three eminent doctors recommended, in a column published on Sunday evening in our edition of Figaro dated Monday, to apply the treatment developed by the highly publicized Professor Didier Raoult, who advocates the use of hydroxychloroquine from the onset early symptoms of coronavirus.
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The Minister of Health Olivier Véran again called on Saturday not to take the steps, in an interview with the online media Brut, and stressed that we would know in the coming days the first intermediate results of clinical studies , which are aimed at determining whether chloroquine but also "other promising drugs" are effective when taken at the onset of the disease.