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Preventing disease after exposure to COVID-19 using hydroxychloroquine: A summary of a protocol for exploratory re-analysis of age and time-nuanced effects

2020-08-26

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<h4>BACKGROUND</h4> A recently published randomized trial (Boulware et al., 2020, NCT04308668 ) of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) for post-exposure prophylaxis found a reduction in Covid-19 of 17%. In the context of ambitious powering to detect a 50% reduction, this non-statistically significant finding could translate to a reduction of 22,000/130,828 cases (CDC 8/12/20) among US health care workers (HCW), impacting tra...

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16a1a697-b7f2-5a7b-bb5f-52c47007e95c
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10.1101/2020.08.19.20178376
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