NIH clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine, a potential therapy for COVID-19, begins

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11. I agree Steel. The only way to verify or disprove the efficacy of hydrochloroquine as a treatment

for COVID-19 is to run a clinical double-blind trial. As for the possible side-effects, millions of people have taken the drug for malaria without suffering ill effects. If a test proved it can help prevent COVID-19 from leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome I wouldn't think twice about taking it if I caught the virus. I took chloroquine for 2 years to prevent and treat malaria when I was in the Peace Corps in West Africa. I didn't suffer any side-effects, but I knew people who said they had. No one died from the drug.