Hospital-Based Quasi-Experimental Study on Hydroxychloroquine Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for COVID-19 in Healthcare Providers with Its Potential Side-Effects.

Lubaba Shahrin Mustafa MahfuzMd Waliur RahmanMd Rezaul HossainAfsana Mim KhandakerMohammed Ashraful Alam Din-E-Mujahid Mohammad Faruque OsmanyMd Munirul IslamMohammod Jobayer ChistiChaudhury Meshkat AhmedTahmeed Ahmed

Published in: Life (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)

Although the number of symptomatic infections in health personnel was lower in the control group, the difference was not statistically significant. However, in the absence of any effective pre-exposure prophylaxis medicine for COVID-19, practicing proper infection prevention and control (IPC) and vaccination is the only way forward.

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