The controversy over hydroxychloroquine intensifies
(WorldNews France)

In response, the French Minister of Health, Olivier V&eaigu;ran, announced on Saturday, May 23, that he would ask the High Council of Public Health (HCSP) to decide after an American study published in the scientific journal The Lancet concluded that a treatment with hydroxychloroquine was ineffective against the Covid-19, but also presented an increased risk of mortality, reported French daily Le Figaro. V&eaigu;ran asked that light be shed on the prescriptions. `I asked the HCSP to analyze it and suggest to me within 48 hours a revision of the derogating prescription rules,` he said on Twitter. This antimalarial drug, advocated in the treatment of Covid-19 patients by Marseille specialist Prof. Didier...