{"id":4241,"date":"2020-05-08T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2020-05-08T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:23:43","slug":"do-we-have-enough-evidence-to-use-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-as-a-public-health-panacea-for-covid-19-originally-published-in-clinics-vol-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2020\/05\/08\/do-we-have-enough-evidence-to-use-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-as-a-public-health-panacea-for-covid-19-originally-published-in-clinics-vol-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we have enough evidence to use chloroquine\/hydroxychloroquine as a public health panacea for COVID-19? [Originally published in Clinics, vol. 75]"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although chloroquine\/hydroxychloroquine might yield promising results, they should not be announced as a cure by politicians and the mass media, as they have never been tested as treatments for Coronaviridae viruses. Clinical trials are ongoing during the course of this pandemic, yet no scientific evidence has been found to support the widespread use of these medications. Available in English. <em>Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/WsTP_d3VEgk\">analuisa gamboa<\/a>.<\/em> <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2020\/05\/08\/do-we-have-enough-evidence-to-use-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine-as-a-public-health-panacea-for-covid-19-originally-published-in-clinics-vol-75\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":3741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4242,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}