{"id":1050,"date":"2020-09-22T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:10:13","slug":"hydroxychloroquine-as-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-in-healthcare-workers-a-randomized-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/22\/hydroxychloroquine-as-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-in-healthcare-workers-a-randomized-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydroxychloroquine as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers a Randomized Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Pre-exposure prophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine once or twice weekly did not significantly reduce laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 or COVID-19-compatible illness among healthcare workers in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. For once weekly hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis, the hazard ratio was 0.72 (95%CI 0.44 to 1.16) and for twice weekly it was 0.74 (95%CI 0.46 to 1.19), as compared with placebo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rajasingham et al. (Sept 21, 2020). Hydroxychloroquine as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers a Randomized Trial. Pre-print downloaded Sept 22 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.18.20197327\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.18.20197327<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-exposure prophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine once or twice weekly did not significantly reduce laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 or COVID-19-compatible illness among healthcare workers in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. For once weekly hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis, the hazard ratio was 0.72 (95%CI 0.44 to 1.16) and for twice weekly it was 0.74 (95%CI 0.46 to 1.19), as compared with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/22\/hydroxychloroquine-as-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-in-healthcare-workers-a-randomized-trial\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,28],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-treatment","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}