May 21, 2020
Healthcare workers to participate in chloroquine study
Editor's Note
An international study will include more than 30,000 front-line healthcare workers to assess whether chloroquine can prevent COVID-19 or decrease its severity.
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis is the clinical coordinating center for the study.
Healthcare workers will be divided randomly into four groups. Three groups will receive chloroquine at various doses, and the fourth group will receive a placebo.
The study will last 5 months.
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