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0 0.5 1 1.5 2+ Time to viral- -203% Improvement Relative Risk c19hcq.org Mallat et al. HCQ for COVID-19 LATE TREATMENT Is late treatment with HCQ beneficial for COVID-19? Retrospective 34 patients in United Arab Emirates Slower viral clearance with HCQ (p=0.024) Mallat et al., Medicine, doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000023720 Favors HCQ Favors control
Hydroxychloroquine is associated with slower viral clearance in clinical COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate disease: A retrospective study
Mallat et al., Medicine (Baltimore), doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000023720 (date from earlier preprint)
Mallat et al., Hydroxychloroquine is associated with slower viral clearance in clinical COVID-19 patients with mild to.., Medicine (Baltimore), doi:10.1097/MD.0000000000023720 (date from earlier preprint)
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Very small retrospective analysis of 34 patients finding slower binary PCR viral clearance with HCQ. No information on severity for treatment versus control is provided. No deaths, ICU admission, or mechanical ventilation. Binary PCR does not distinguish replication-competence. HCQ treatment started very late for many patients with >= 9 days for 25%.
time to viral-, 203.0% higher, relative time 3.03, p = 0.02, treatment 23, control 11, inverted to make RR<1 favor treatment.
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Mallat et al., 2 May 2020, retrospective, United Arab Emirates, peer-reviewed, 8 authors, average treatment delay 4.0 days.
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Abstract: Medicine ® Observational Study OPEN Hydroxychloroquine is associated with slower viral clearance in clinical COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate disease ∗ Jihad Mallat, MD, MSca,b,c, , Fadi Hamed, MDa, Maher Balkis, MDd, Mohamed A. Mohamed, MDe, Mohamad Mooty, MDd, Asim Malik, MDd, Ahmad Nusair, MDd, Maria-Fernanda Bonilla, MDd Abstract There are conflicting data regarding the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in COVID-19 hospitalized patients. The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of HCQ in increasing SARS-CoV-2 viral clearance. Hospitalized adult patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were retrospectively included in the study. The primary outcome was the time from a confirmed positive nasopharyngeal swab to turn negative. A negative nasopharyngeal swab conversion was defined as a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case followed by 2 negative results using RT-PCR assay with samples obtained 24 hours apart. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to adjust for potential confounders. Thirty-four confirmed COVID-19 patients completed the study. Nineteen (55.9%) patients presented with symptoms, and 14 (41.2%) had pneumonia. Only 21 (61.8%) patients received HCQ. The time to SARS-CoV-2 negativity nasopharyngeal test was significantly longer in patients who received HCQ than those who did not receive HCQ [17 (13–21) vs 10 (4–13) days, P = .023]. HCQ was independently associated with time to negativity test after adjustment for potential confounders (symptoms, comorbidities, antiviral drugs, pneumonia, or oxygen therapy) in multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression analysis (hazard ratio = 0.33, 95% confidence interval: 0.13–0.9, P = .024). On day 14, 47.8% (14/23) patients tested negative in the HCQ group compared with 90.9% (10/11) patients who did not receive HCQ (P = .016). HCQ was associated with a slower viral clearance in COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate disease. Data from ongoing randomized clinical trials with HCQ should provide a definitive answer regarding the efficacy and safety of this treatment. Abbreviations: HCQ = hydroxychloroquine, RT-PCR = real-time reverse-transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction. Keywords: COVID-19 infection, hydroxychloroquine, time to COVID test negativity, viral clearance then, the virus has extended around the world, crossing the Middle East and North Africa region, to Europe and then currently to North America, which has become the epicenter of the pandemic. As of April 19, 2020, a total of around 2,241,778 confirmed cases have been documented globally, with more than 152,551 deaths worldwide.[2] Therefore, the focus of therapeutic intervention has been to decrease the duration of viral shedding and thus limit the spread of the virus, and slow the progression of the disease. Besides antiviral drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine (antimalarial drugs) have been proposed as potential agents that could reduce the viral load and the transmission of the virus. Chloroquine analogs appear to block viral entry to cells by inhibiting the acidification of endosomes and glycosylation of host receptors.[3–5] Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) has been demonstrated to be effective in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro studies.[6,7] Clinical studies have shown conflicting results. French studies suggested that HCQ,..
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