‘I was completely nauseous, couldn’t walk, had weak muscles and vertigo’: Tom Hanks’ wife Rita Wilson describes the extreme side effects she had after taking chloroquine to treat coronavirus and says she had worse symptoms than her husband Rita Wilson said her chloroquine treatment in Australia ‘had such extreme side effects’ after contracting coronavirus at … Read more
Hospitals in Sweden have stopped using the malaria drug chloroquine on coronavirus patients after reports it was causing blinding headaches and vision loss. Doctors in the Vastra Gotaland region, 200miles west of Stockholm, are no longer administering the medication, touted as a ‘miracle drug’ by Donald Trump. A number of patients at hospitals in the county reported suffering … Read more
A small study done in China has claimed the malaria drug chloroquine can help coronavirus patients recover quicker. Doctors in Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, gave 31 coronavirus patients hydroxychloroquine for five days and treated another 31 with normal therapy. Pneumonia infections improved in 25 per cent more patients in the chloroquine group when compared to those … Read more
Donald Trump today promised to fast-track an anti-malaria drug called Chloroquine to treat coronavirus in the US after it was used in China and South Korea. His announcement contrasted directly with Boris Johnson who will not say if Britain will test it – and revealed the first trial of a potential cure involves just one … Read more