NEW: FDA on Friday cautioned against prescribing hydroxychloroquine to COVID-19 patients outside of hospital settings or clinical trials.
Hydroxychloroquine, and a related compound called chloroquine, is a medication that's been around for decades. It's used to treat malaria, as well as certain autoimmune diseases, including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
Enthusiasm for its potential as a treatment for the coronavirus began to build in March, when a Frenchsuggested hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin might benefit COVID-19 patients. The journal that published the French study, however, later said that the article did not meet its expected standard. A week later, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, allowing health care providers to use the medicine for COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe disease, even though the drug had not been approved as a specific treatment for the illness, and was known to increase the risk for
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