{"id":105877,"date":"2020-04-22T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/study-finds-no-benefit-higher-death-rate-in-patients-taking-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19"},"modified":"2020-04-22T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:43:22","slug":"study-finds-no-benefit-higher-death-rate-in-patients-taking-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/study-finds-no-benefit-higher-death-rate-in-patients-taking-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Study finds no benefit, higher death rate in patients taking hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-finds-no-benefit-higher-death-rate-in-patients-taking-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you think about.this?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which reviewed veterans\u2019 medical charts, was posted Tuesday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.16.20065920v1\" target=\"_blank\">medrxiv.org<\/a>, a pre-print server, meaning it was not peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think about.this? Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, 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. The study, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}