Azithromycin Should Not Be Used to Treat COVID-19

Jennifer Lighter^{1

2}, Vanessa Raabe^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health, New York New York, USA.
² Department of Infection Prevention and Control, NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health, New York New York, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health, New York New York, USA.

Jennifer Lighter et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020.

. 2020 May 30;7(6):ofaa207.

doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa207. eCollection 2020 Jun.

Jennifer Lighter^{1

2}, Vanessa Raabe^{1

3}

¹ Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health, New York New York, USA.
² Department of Infection Prevention and Control, NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health, New York New York, USA.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine/NYU Langone Health, New York New York, USA.

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