Australia's Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth has rejected MP Craig Kelly's push for hydroxychloroquine, saying the drug simply does not benefit COVID-19 patients. 9News
had donated tonnes of hydroxychloroquine early in the pandemic crisis, when it was still thought it might help patients.if it were useful for COVID-19, we would be giving it to patients," he said.
The World Health Organisation has pulled hydroxychloroquine from one of its coronavirus trials, which Dr Coatsworth said only happened in the case of incontrovertible evidence. Mr Kelly said in Parliament that "groupthink" was preventing the use of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients.
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