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Originally Posted by Deschodt
Nope - for France anyway, can't speak for sweden. It's being used extensively, especially in the major Marseille hospitals, and very successfully so....
Side effects, pff - chloroquine was available without prescription until 2 months ago in most of the world, and over a billion people have used it over past decades when travelling to Africa... The heart issues are super overblown and very unlikely on a 2 week treatment... I smell a pharma lobby with a more expensive pill to sell...
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Here's the story from Sweden (posted previously)
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/carl-40-fick-kramp-och-syn-problem-av-coronamedicin/
Not everyone in France is excited about it:
https://www.newsweek.com/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-france-heart-cardiac-1496810
There's one main advocate for HCQ in France -- who has pushed some pretty unscientific "research."
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/29/more-on-cloroquine-azithromycin-and-on-dr-raoult