A major study just found hydroxychloroquine doesn’t prevent COVID-19
The anti-malarial pills may be a bust when it comes to COVID-19 (Julie Viken/Pexels/)Follow all of PopSci’s COVID-19 coverage here, including tips on cleaning groceries, ways to tell if your symptoms are just allergies, and a tutorial on making your own mask.The final nail doesn’t seem to be in the coffin yet for hydroxychloroquine, but more evidence now suggests that the anti-malarial drug isn’t going to help the fight against COVID-19. A double-blind placebo study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that hydroxychloroquine didn’t prevent disease in people with known exposures to coronavirus patients any better than did a placebo.Researchers from Minnesota and Canada recruited 821 people who had been exposed to a person with confirmed COVID-19 for more than 10 minutes and at less than six feet away, either while wearing no protective equipment or while only wearing a face mask. Half were assigned to take...