Anti-malarial drug killed some 200 Covid patients in NL: study

The use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine in the first months of the Covid pandemic may have cost the lives of some 200 patients in the Netherlands, according to new research Calculations by a French team of scientists show the side effects of the drug killed at least 17,000 people worldwide. The real number is probably higher because of “incomplete data from most countries”, the researchers said. It is not clear exactly how many people died from the side effects...