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AUGUST 21, 2020

IDSA: Recommends Against Using Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19

By PPN News Staff

The Infectious Diseases of America treatment guidelines for COVID-19 were updated Friday afternoon. The panel recommended against the use of either hydroxychloroquine alone or in combination with azithromycin in the hospital setting.

In assessing the current state of the literature, IDSA’s expert guidelines panel concluded that higher certainty benefits, such as a reduction in mortality, for the use of these treatments are now "highly unlikely even if additional high