'No miraculous recovery': Some ICU doctors say hydroxychloroquine isn't helping the sickest patients
But,"those reports were talking about patients who received a particular drug and then got better. We know most people with COVID-19 get better on their own," said Dr. Wesley Self, an emergency physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, who is studying the drug."If you took those same people, and didn't give them medicine, many of them would report, we think, similar rates of recovery," Self said.
"People take these tiny studies, and quote them as gospel," Lyn-Kew said."We need real science behind this disease," adding physicians are"desperate for something to help people."Physicians across the country are investigating, in real time, to see whether the drug might indeed be beneficial to treat severe cases or even prevent coronavirus infections.
The study"could provide answers by summer on whether a preventive dose of the drug is safe and effective," according to a
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