Claim: Randomized controlled trials -- the highest standard of evidence -- have found that hydroxychloroquine isn't beneficial in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Yet social media posts are claiming the drug works, and conservative outlets have touted an unpublished, and much-criticized, observational study as evidence of the drug's effectiveness.
Fact-check: No New Revelation on Hydroxychloroquine and COVID-19 - FactCheck.org
Verdict: randomized controlled trials -- the highest standard of evidence -- have found that hydroxychloroquine isn't beneficial in treating hospitalized covid-19 patients. yet social media posts are claiming the drug works, and conservative outlets have touted an unpublished, and much-criticized, observational study as evidence of the drug's effectiveness.
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Lori Robertson
Date published: 2021-07-02T19:57:35