{"id":6280,"date":"2020-04-24T13:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:53:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:53:49","slug":"national-consumption-of-antimalarial-drugs-and-covid-19-deaths-dynamics-an-ecological-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/24\/national-consumption-of-antimalarial-drugs-and-covid-19-deaths-dynamics-an-ecological-study\/","title":{"rendered":"National Consumption of Antimalarial Drugs and COVID-19 Deaths Dynamics: An Ecological Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This ecologic modeling study compares the dynamics of COVID-19 daily deaths in countries using anti-malaria drugs as a treatment from the start of the epidemic versus countries that do not. The authors report major differences in death rates, with countries using or producing chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine on a massive scale faring better than those which do not.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors note that there could be systematic differences between the two groups, such as testing strategies or political structure that could account for the difference in death rates.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Izoulet (Apr 24, 2020). National Consumption of Antimalarial Drugs and COVID-19 Deaths Dynamics: An Ecological Study. Pre-print downloaded Apr 24 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.18.20063875\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.18.20063875<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ecologic modeling study compares the dynamics of COVID-19 daily deaths in countries using anti-malaria drugs as a treatment from the start of the epidemic versus countries that do not. The authors report major differences in death rates, with countries using or producing chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine on a massive scale faring better than those which&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/24\/national-consumption-of-antimalarial-drugs-and-covid-19-deaths-dynamics-an-ecological-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6281,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}