
UM researchers launch preventative drug trial for health-care workers at risk of COVID-19
Posted on May 21, 2020UM researchers in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, in collaboration with the University of Minnesota and McGill University, have launched an online clinical trial for health-care workers at higher risk of exposure to COVID-19.
The purpose of the trial is to study the medication hydroxychloroquine to see if it can help prevent health-care workers from contracting COVID-19 – a concept called ‘pre-exposure prophylaxis.’
Hydroxychloroquine is a Health Canada-approved drug used to prevent and treat malaria since the 1950s.....
https://news.umanitoba.ca/preventative-drug-trial-health-care-workers-covid-19/