March 10, 2020

Of chloroquine and COVID-19

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Testing and Treatment

• Touret and Lamballerie provide a commentary on studies that demonstrated benefits of chloroquine phosphate in inhibiting the exacerbation of pneumonia, improving lung imaging findings, promoting a virus negative conversion, and shortening the disease course. They however caution against drawing definitive conclusions without a clinical trial.

Touret and Lamballerie (Mar 2, 2020). Of chloroquine and COVID-19. Antiviral Research. Pre-print downloaded Mar 10 from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104762