Hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19: Taking care of statistics to take care of patients

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¹ Liver Transplant Unit, São Lucas Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Liver Transplant Unit, Adventista Silvestre Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: andersonbrito.a@gmail.com.

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Anderson Brito-Azevedo. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct:99:324.

doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.079. Epub 2020 Aug 6.

¹ Liver Transplant Unit, São Lucas Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; Liver Transplant Unit, Adventista Silvestre Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: andersonbrito.a@gmail.com.

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