The Minister of Health Olivier Véran announced Saturday to seize the High Council of Public Health (HCSP) after the publication in the health journal The Lancet of a study concluding to the ineffectiveness and risks of certain treatments of coronavirus, including hydroxychloroquine.
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" I asked the HCSP to analyze it and propose to me within 48 hours a revision of the derogating prescription rules ," said the minister in a tweet.
This treatment against malaria is at the heart of a controversy about its effects against the coronavirus.
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US President Donald Trump has revealed he is taking the drug preventively and urged others to do the same, but according to new study published in The Lancet, the product is linked to an increased risk of death and abnormalities. heart rate in patients with Covid-19 and hospitalized.
The study, which involved more than 96,000 people, also found no benefit to infected patients taking chloroquine, the magazine writes.
