Those responsible for the clinical trial Recovery on hydroxychloroquine announced Friday that this drug, considered as a possible treatment against Covid-19, did not show "no beneficial effect" on patients suffering from the disease. This announcement comes a few days after the imbroglio around the controversial study published in the journal The Lancet. 

Hydroxychloroquine shows "no beneficial effect" for Covid-19 patients, according to officials of the British clinical trial Recovery who announced in a press release the "immediate" cessation of the inclusion of new patients for this treatment.

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Recovery, a major clinical trial whose results were eagerly awaited, was one of the only ones not to have suspended its tests on hydroxychloroquine after a controversial study of the Lancet, since withdrawn, which pointed to the ineffectiveness or even the harmful effect of the controversial molecule.

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