Studies link some drugs, non-white race with higher risk of COVID death
recep aktas / iStock Two new US studies identify risk factors for COVID-19 death, one pointing to the use of certain medications and the other describing development of a risk calculator that showed elevated risk in non-white populations and in people with underlying conditions and social deprivation. Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin combo The first study, published yesterday in JAMA Network Open, found that use of a combination of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin was linked to increased risk of death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, while cholestero...
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