The Dept. of Veterans Affairs said it's continuing to use hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus after the FDA said it hasn't been shown to be “safe and effective' for treating Covid-19, and carries “known risks” of potentially deadly heart complications
Bottles of hydroxychloroquine pills to be distributed in hospitals in San Salvador, El Salvador on April 21. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images
The FDA said those risks"may be mitigated when health care professionals closely screen and supervise these patients such as in a hospital setting or a clinical trial," which is mentioned in an emergency-use authorization for the drugs issued last month. CNN previously reported coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a study of hundreds of patients at US Veterans Health Administration medical centers., a pre-print server, meaning it was not peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal. The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the University of Virginia.
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