The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, reaffirmed it on Saturday evening: hydroxychloroquine, a derivative of chloroquine, cannot be prescribed in town. Only hospitalized persons, therefore serious cases, can claim it. “I base all my decisions on the recommendations of learned societies. There were seven of them who spoke out and said that the clinical data we have was far too insufficient to take the risk of prescribing treatment for other French people except under these conditions, ” he insisted.
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In parallel, the highly publicized Didier Raoult, director of the Institut hospitalo universitaire Méditerranée infection (IHU) in Marseille, decided to treat all patients diagnosed in his institute with hydroxychloroquine combined with an antibiotic, azithromycin. An association, however, not recommended, due to the increased risk of heart problems. "1,003 patients treated," he announced on his Twitter account on Sunday.
It is unethical to give a drug outside of a clinical trial when it is not yet known whether it is effective
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