Hydroxychloroquine as an aerosol might markedly reduce and even prevent severe clinical symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection
A Klimke, G Hefner, B Will, U Voss
Medical Hypotheses, doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109783
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Consequences of the hypothesis and discussion Why this treatment strategy is of potential great importance If our hypothesis is true, HCQ as an aerosol might not only reduce the side effect potential of the oral application form but can also be clinically used as an efficient antiviral agent in the early phase of COVID-19 and eventually lower the rate of severely ill patients and fatalities. This might have great relevance for further prognosis and treatment of this often fatal disease.
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Appendix A. Supplementary data Supplementary data to this article can be found online at https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109783.
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