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Myron Cohen, MD, director of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, wrote an editorial on the results of a clinical trial to determine efficacy of hydroxychloroquine as prevention of COVID-19.


As of June 1, 2020, ClinicalTrials.gov listed 203 COVID-19 clinical trials with hydroxychloroquine, 60 of which were focused on prophylaxis — prevention of disease transmission. Researchers just published the latest results of a clinic trial in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Myron Cohen, MD, director of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the Yeargan-Bate Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology at the UNC School of Medicine, wrote an accompanying editorial in NEJM, which can be read in full here.