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Trump was not Totally Wrong in Suggesting Hydroxychloroquine as COVID-19 Medicine

Study on the use of  Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 will be resumed.(sources) A major study on a drug called hydroxychloroquine has been withdrawn, saying it could increase the risk of death in patients with the corona virus. The reason for withdrawing the research is due to concerns about the data related to the drug. One of the three authors of the research paper said that a company called Serge Sphere was not allowing independent testing of its data on medicine, so they could not continue their research. As a result of the research, the World Health Organization (WHO) stopped testing this drug used to treat malaria. However, many world leaders, including President Donald Trump, have spoken out in support of the drug. Sapin Desai, chief executive of Surge Sphere and the fourth author of the study, told the Guardian that he was ready to cooperate with an independent inquiry, but that transferring data would violate agreements and privacy with consumers. The article, pu...