Chloroquine and COVID19: what to think about it?

Chloroquine arouses the enthusiasm in the population after the not very careful communications of a Marseillaise research team. However, care must be taken. The entire scientific community criticizes and calls for restraint in the interpretation of the results of this study.

Currently, we can hear everything and its opposite on the chloroquine. To have an informed opinion, you have to know how to go back to primary sources and remember how to develop scientific knowledge. Even in so many crises, where panic pushes our brain towards what we think is the only hope available, we must not do anything, at the risk of worsening the situation. We must be careful and wait for rigorous data which will allow experts to assess the benefit-risk balance and to propose (or not) an appropriate treatment against COVID 19 disease induced by SARS-CoV-2.