Rita Wilson has said she felt ‘completely nauseous’, had achy muscles, vertigo, and couldn’t walk after taking chloroquine as a coronavirus treatment. The opera singer-and-actress contracted COVID-19 at the same time as her husband Tom Hanks while they were working in Australia and were some of the first celebrities to reveal they had the disease. … Read more
Hospitals in Sweden have stopped using the malaria drug chloroquine on coronavirus patients after reports it was causing blinding headaches and vision loss. Doctors in the Vastra Gotaland region, 200miles west of Stockholm, are no longer administering the medication, touted as a ‘miracle drug’ by Donald Trump. A number of patients at hospitals in the county reported suffering … Read more
A small study done in China has claimed the malaria drug chloroquine can help coronavirus patients recover quicker. Doctors in Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, gave 31 coronavirus patients hydroxychloroquine for five days and treated another 31 with normal therapy. Pneumonia infections improved in 25 per cent more patients in the chloroquine group when compared to those … Read more
President Donald Trump once again touted a new drug regimen against the coronavirus he said may prove ‘very affective’ against the disease – at a briefing where top national expert Dr. Anthony Fauci wasn’t present. Trump said clinical trials would begin on the anti-malarial drug chloroquine, which has been seen to have positive effects in … Read more