The country’s public health agency advised against use outside of clinical trials.
The French health ministry is banning the use of hydroxychloroquine as a cure to coronavirus, according to a decree published Wednesday morning.
“Whether [in doctors offices] in the cities or in the hospital, this … should not be prescribed for patients with COVID-19,” the ministry said in a statement.
On Tuesday, the country’s public health agency advised against using hydroxychloroquine outside of clinical trials. Shortly after that, the national medicines regulator suspended its use in clinical trials.
The moves follow the Lancet’s publication on Friday of a large observational study casting doubt on the benefit of hydroxychloroquine and another malaria drug, chloroquine, for Covid-19 patients. It also found an increased risk of heart problems and death.
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The French health ministry is banning the use of hydroxychloroquine as a cure to coronavirus https://t.co/3yiOjY2rmn
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Anthony Fauci today became the first Trump administration official to say definitively that #hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for the coronavirus, based on the available data https://t.co/9a1Hz4Unf9
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Fauci's comments come days after The Lancet published a 96,000-patient study concluding #hydroxychloroquine had no effect on #Covid19 and may have even caused some harm.
This also comes after Trump said he was taking it as a preventative measure https://t.co/9a1Hz4Unf9
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