How to Use chloroquine in a Sentence
chloroquine
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That trial will test the same drugs, with the exception of chloroquine.
—Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2020
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After the war, chloroquine was so widely used that parasites grew resistant to it.
—The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
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The researchers did get a reaction from one compound, chloroquine, that tastes bitter to human.
—Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
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Trump took heat from critics after a man in Arizona died after drinking a form of chloroquine used to clean fish tanks.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2020
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The chloroquine phosphate that this Phoenix resident gulped down sterilizes fish tanks.
—Deroy Murdock, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
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Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have been used with mixed results, since those drugs can cause heart problems in some patients.
—Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 5 May 2020
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There isn't enough data to prove hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine were safe or efficient for children and teens, the group said.
—Rodrigo Pedroso, Tatiana Arias, and Rob Picheta, CNN, 16 June 2020
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There’s now a wealth of evidence that the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine did not work against Covid.
—New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
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And in Arizona, a man died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate to guard against the coronavirus.
—Lev Facher, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
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Garcez and her collaborators found recently that the malaria drug chloroquine helps limit viral growth in cells.
—Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2016
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Those include hydroxychloroquine, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and chloroquine, used to treat malaria.
—Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 26 Mar. 2020
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One of the more unorthodox remedies being tested against the coronavirus in China is chloroquine.
—Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
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This weekend Brooks cared for a man in his 60s who died after ingesting a version of chloroquine commonly used to clean fish tanks.
—David Armstrong, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2020
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In mid-May, when Bright testified to Congress, there was a partisan push to defend the use of chloroquine.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 June 2020
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But the president is perhaps best known for his early and ardent embrace of the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
—Jonathan Lemire and Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2020
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The man and his wife, who was in critical condition, ingested the wrong type of chloroquine, instead taking the kind used to clean fish tanks and not the anti-malaria drug.
—Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2020
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Concerns about the health risks of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were based on evidence beyond the Lancet paper.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 June 2020
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The drug is a single dose of tafenoquine (brand name Kozenis), administered along with the traditional chloroquine treatment.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
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Amodiaquine’s molecular structure is very similar to those of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the latter of which was discovered around the same time.
—Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
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The agency now says hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing Covid19.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
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These are known possible side effects of chloroquine, Medline Plus explains, but nausea and muscle aches can also be symptoms of the coronavirus.
—Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 17 Sep. 2020
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One study found that Covid-19 patients treated with the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were more likely to die or suffer dangerous side effects.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 June 2020
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The agency said Monday that the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the coronavirus.
—Matthew Perrone, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
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The announcement from the agency is the latest blow to the hopes that hydroxychloroquine, as well as the related drug chloroquine, could provide patients an option at a time when there are too few treatments available for the virus.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 June 2020
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Trump last week falsely stated that the Food and Drug Administration had just approved the use of chloroquine to treat patients infected with coronavirus.
—USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
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Nelson Teich stepped down as health minister Friday after Bolosnaro pushed to lift lockdown measures and the widespread use of the drug chloroquine to treat the virus without further testing.
—Fox News, 18 May 2020
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There's also no reason to believe that Fauci was familiar with the study on chloroquine published in the Virology Journal in 2005.
—Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
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White warned, too loudly some say, that the loss of artemisinin could cause a repeat of the chloroquine disaster of the 1980s, when resistant parasites spread from the Greater Mekong to Africa and millions died.
—Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
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