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A task force led by the American Thoracic Society in New York has temporarily endorsed using hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized coronavirus patients with “severe pneumonia.”

The group stressed the recommendation only applies to hospitalized patients where the “clinical condition is sufficiently severe to warrant investigational therapy.”

And the endorsement only applies to cases where the patient can be informed of the malaria drug’s possibly lethal side effects, the task force said.

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