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By Marthe Fourcade

April 2, 2020 at 8:09 AM UTC

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Hydroxychloroquine, the malaria medicine that some doctors have been trying as a treatment against Covid-19, hasn’t shown encouraging results so far at France’s Pitie Salpetriere hospital.