The debate over the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus continues to divide. While Professor Didier Raoult, Director of the IHU Méditerranée Infection who is behind its use to eradicate the epidemic, continues to defend its treatment, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran asked Saturday May 23, 2020 the High Council of Public Health to which he asked to propose within 48 hours "a review of the derogating prescription rules" several treatments including chloroquine. A decision following a study published Friday, May 22, 2020 in The Lancet, a British medical scientific journal that the minister quotes in a series of tweets on the subject. This study, which is based on 96,000 cases of Covid-19, shows that hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine therapy results in increased risk of cardiac arrhythmia and death in hospital patients.
Hydroxychloroquine, less dangerous than Doliprane?
Statements that brought up the microbiologist Didier Raoult who spoke Monday, May 25, 2020 in a video broadcast on the IHU Mediterranean YouTube account. "How do you want a messy study done with big data to change what we saw?[…] Here, we have passed 4,000 patients in our hands, don't think I'm going to change my mind because people are doing big data, a completely delusional fantasy that takes data of which we don't know the quality and which mix everything. ", tackles in his video the Marseilles doctor, about this analysis. The Professor went so far as to compare the use of chloroquine with that of another commonly used drug:"Doliprane is more dangerous than hydroxychloroquine. It is the number one cause of poisoning in modern countries around the world. Doliprane is dangerous. It kills a lot. "he got annoyed. Although defended by many personalities like Christian Estrosi who used the treatment to cure coronavirus, Didier Raoult should once again attract the wrath of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.
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