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Hydroxychloroquine: a potential ethical dilemma for rheumatologists during the COVID-19 pandemic

Rosie Scuccimarri, Evelyn Sutton and Mary-Ann Fitzcharles
The Journal of Rheumatology April 2020, jrheum.200369; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.200369
Rosie Scuccimarri
From the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada;Division of Rheumatology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada; Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada. Address correspondence to Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, 1650 Cedar ave, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4. E-mail:mfitzcharles@sympatico.ca
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From the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada;Division of Rheumatology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada; Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada. Address correspondence to Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, 1650 Cedar ave, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4. E-mail:mfitzcharles@sympatico.ca
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From the Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada;Division of Rheumatology, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada; Division of Rheumatology, McGill University Health Centre, Quebec, Canada. Address correspondence to Mary-Ann Fitzcharles, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, 1650 Cedar ave, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1A4. E-mail:mfitzcharles@sympatico.ca
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Two antimalarial agents, chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), have been trusted treatments for a range of rheumatic diseases over the past seventy years [1]. These agents have attracted intense media attention in the past few weeks with suggestions that this category of drugs may have potential in the management of coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) associated disease called COVID-19 [2, 3].

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