How to Use hydroxychloroquine in a Sentence

hydroxychloroquine

noun
  • Look at the African countries, the Asian countries, where the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are widespread.
    Bob Guccione Jr, SPIN, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Needless to say, this is not how to make hydroxychloroquine.
    Arthur Holland Michel, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Don’t offer me a share in your stash of online hydroxychloroquine.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 6 Jan. 2022
  • This country's experience with hydroxychloroquine is a case study of what happens when hype gets ahead of the science.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 27 Feb. 2021
  • In those emails, Oz mentioned plans to run a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine with his own money.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2022
  • There was a three-day suspension by Facebook because of a post about hydroxychloroquine.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 30 June 2021
  • Throughout the pandemic, Bolsonaro has downplayed the threat of the virus, flouted public health guidance and urged his supporters to discard masks and treat covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, with unproven drugs such as hydroxychloroquine.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • And the risks can increase when people combine hydroxychloroquine with the antibiotic azithromycin.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Aug. 2022
  • In this trial of patients with severe Covid-19, one group received ivermectin while the other, the control group, received hydroxychloroquine (people in this group should have received a placebo).
    Peter G. Lurie, STAT, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Former President Trump promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine during the early days of the pandemic last year.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 30 June 2021
  • The drugs hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin are effective for preventing the disease, though.
    Johnny Edwards, ajc, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Multiple studies have failed to show a benefit for hydroxychloroquine, but the picture is murkier for ivermectin.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 6 Oct. 2021
  • In the early years of the worldwide pandemic, the use of hydroxychloroquine became a controversial treatment that Fauci opposed.
    Brianna Herlihy, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The study, published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found nearly 8% of patients died after being treated with hydroxychloroquine.
    Evan MacDonald, cleveland, 20 July 2021
  • YouTube suspended Johnson for a week last year over his promotion of hydroxychloroquine and the anti-parasite drug ivermectin.
    Lawrence Andrea, Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
  • As part of his plea agreement, Staley also admitted to posing as one of his employees to fill a prescription for hydroxychloroquine to then use it in his kits, prosecutors said.
    Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • Researchers are evaluating the anticancer effects of two malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, that block the final steps of autophagy.
    Justin Quiles, The Conversation, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Faced with a deadly situation, MacGruber goes to the anti-vax playbook of Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to save him both from the coronavirus and the pending detonation.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Studies later found that hydroxychloroquine is not an effective treatment for covid and did not prevent people from becoming sick.
    Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, the HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, and the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin all showed hints of promise and have been touted at various stages of the pandemic as antivirals.
    Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
  • Last summer, the Food and Drug Administration revoked its emergency use authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine as treatment for Covid.
    Maeve Reston, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Isolated from her co-workers, Lake became enmeshed in far-right viewpoints about the coronavirus, including pushing unproven treatments such as hydroxychloroquine for the virus.
    Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Thus began the truly frightening story of Trump’s cheerleading for the unsupervised, home use of hydroxychloroquine.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 23 May 2022
  • Several drugs were tested, including some that turned out to have no benefit, including hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, and lopinavir-ritonavir, used to treat HIV.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Children’s Health Defense says its legal team works closely with state attorneys general to protect off-label use of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine to prevent or treat covid; attorneys general in six states have done so.
    Lauren Weber, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Raoult stirred controversy in the early stages of the pandemic by recommending treatment with hydroxychloroquine.
    Time, 5 Jan. 2022
  • After he was put on a ventilator on March 29 in the Long Island hospital, doctors tried treating him unsuccessfully with hydroxychloroquine and proning.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Drugs in current use to treat the disease, such as hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, corticosteroids, and convalescent plasma can sometimes reduce the disease’s deadliness, but in India these therapies are available only to the very rich.
    T. Jacob John, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In 2023, the group had to defend itself in an ongoing lawsuit alleging that its promotion of hydroxychloroquine led to the death of a Nevada man who had been prescribed the anti-malarial drug by a doctor affiliated with the organization.
    Lauren Weber, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • His promotion of hydroxychloroquine grabbed President Donald J. Trump’s attention and contributed to early misinformation about the virus on the right.
    New York Times, 26 Dec. 2021

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