{"id":15402,"date":"2020-05-26T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2020-05-26T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T09:57:49","slug":"covid-19-under-fire-who-suspends-trial-for-hydroxychloroquine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=15402","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Under-fire WHO suspends trial for hydroxychloroquine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Monday it had temporarily suspended clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19<\/a> as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, who disclosed this at a virtual press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, said the decision came after the publication last week of a study in the Lancet indicating that using the drug on COVID-19 patients could increase their likelihood of dying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that the WHO-backed trials had been suspended while the safety was reviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The WHO chief said: \u201cThe executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the solidarity trial while the safety data is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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United States President, Donald Trump, was among the first set of people to wax lyrical about the possible benefits of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump<\/a> declared that he took the drug for two weeks as a prophylactic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cThis would be a gift from heaven. This would be a gift from God if it works. We are going to pray to God that it does work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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