{"id":325622,"date":"2020-07-31T11:48:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=325622"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:48:59","slug":"the-controversy-behind-the-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/325622","title":{"rendered":"The controversy behind the use of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC) &#8211; The video, a 45-minute livestream of the first day of a &#8220;White Coat&#8221; summit by the group, was posted to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube by Breitbart and quickly went viral.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/cY0TH-DTYEI<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The virus has a cure, it&#8217;s called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax,&#8221; says one of the doctors in the video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don&#8217;t need masks. There is a cure. I know they don&#8217;t want to open schools. No, you don&#8217;t need people to be locked down. There is prevention and there is a cure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Medical trials have so far been inconclusive and the results of larger-scale randomized studies will be needed to know if it&#8217;s effective or not.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the US Food and Drug Administration warned against the use of the drug outside a hospital setting because of possible risks to the heart from taking it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(BBC) &#8211; The video, a 45-minute livestream of the first day of a &#8220;White Coat&#8221; summit by the group, was posted to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube by Breitbart and quickly went viral. https:\/\/youtu.be\/cY0TH-DTYEI &#8220;The virus has a cure, it&#8217;s called hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax,&#8221; says one of the doctors in the video. &#8220;You don&#8217;t need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Frontline-Doctors.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1mHY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325640,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325622\/revisions\/325640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}