Hydroxychloroquine: a potential ethical dilemma for rheumatologists during the COVID-19 pandemic
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2020-04Autor
Scuccimarri, Rosie
Sutton, Evelyn
Fitzcharles, Mary-Ann
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Two antimalarial agents, chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), have been trusted treatments for a range of rheumatic diseases over the past seventy years [1]. These agents have attracted intense media attention in the past few weeks with suggestions that this category of drugs may have potential in the management of coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) associated disease called COVID-19