Reuters - British scientists halted a major drug trial on Friday after it found that the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, touted by US President Donald Trump as a potential "game changer" in the pandemic, was "useless" at treating COVID-19 patients.
“This is not a treatment for COVID-19.
It doesn’t work,” Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor who is
co-leading the RECOVERY trial, told reporters.
“This result should change
medical practice worldwide. We can now stop using a drug that is useless.”
Landray, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Oxford
University, noted the “huge speculation” about the drug as a treatment for
COVID-19 but said there had been until now “an absence of reliable information
from large randomised trials”.
He said the preliminary
results from RECOVERY, which was a randomised trial, were now quite clear:
hydroxychloroquine does not reduce the risk of death among hospitalised
patients with COVID-19.
“If you’re admitted to
hospital, don’t take hydroxychloroquine,” he said.
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