Drug touted by Trump as Covid-19 treatment linked to a greater risk of death, study finds
(WorldNews Health)

Seriously ill Covid-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were more likely to die or develop dangerous heart arrhythmias, according to a large observational study published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet. Researchers looked at data from more than 96,000 Covid-19 patients from 671 hospitals. All were hospitalized from late December to mid-April and had died or been discharged by April 21. Just below 15,000 were treated with the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, or one of those drugs combined with an antibiotic. Those treatments were linked with a higher risk of dying in the hospital, the study found. About 1 in 6 patients treated with...