Emmanuel Macron's interest in the drug has highlighted disagreements between medical professionals over the drug's reported effectiveness.
The anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are receiving attention from French President Emmanuel Macron as nearly 460,000 people signed a petition asking French officials to allow their wider use as potential treatments for coronavirus.
Although Raoult's studies showed positive results, both have been criticized for their methodology and limitations, according to the American magazineRaoult's first study involved only 42 patients, and Raoult personally decided which ones received drugs and which received placebos, a move which critics say could have biased his results in favor of the treatment.
U.S. President Donald Trump has touted Raoult's studies as indicators that more doctors should consider administering chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to coronavirus patients. Raoult himself gives hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin to his coronavirus patients even though it's not yet approved by French authorities.
French president Emmanuel Macron, takes part in a March 19, 2020 videoconference of the"economic task force" in the green Presidential meeting room at the Elysee Palace in Paris alongside French economic leaders and government members concerned about the coronavirus epidemic and confinement measures.
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