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Comment
. 2021 Feb:103:560-561.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.12.006. Epub 2020 Dec 9.

Response to "Early hydroxychloroquine but not chloroquine use reduces ICU admission in COVID-19 patients"

Marijke Linschoten  1 , Linda Nab  2 , Iwan C C van der Horst  3 , Robert Tieleman  4 , Folkert W Asselbergs  5
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Response to "Early hydroxychloroquine but not chloroquine use reduces ICU admission in COVID-19 patients"

Marijke Linschoten et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Feb.
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Total number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to the ICU in the Netherlands (indicated by black dots) during the first wave between 9 March and 3 May 2020 (based on publicly available data from the NICE foundation (Nationale Intensive Care Evaluatie, 2020)). The median age of ICU admitted patients (indicated by blue dots, blue vertical bars interquartile ranges) declined during that period (based on data of 1182 patients from the Dutch CAPACITY registry (Linschoten and Asselbergs, 2020)). The blue dots indicate median age of the patients admitted to the ICU at that date and the six leading days. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1150 ICU beds in the Netherlands (indicated by the black line).
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  • Early hydroxychloroquine but not chloroquine use reduces ICU admission in COVID-19 patients.
    Lammers AJJ, Brohet RM, Theunissen REP, Koster C, Rood R, Verhagen DWM, Brinkman K, Hassing RJ, Dofferhoff A, El Moussaoui R, Hermanides G, Ellerbroek J, Bokhizzou N, Visser H, van den Berge M, Bax H, Postma DF, Groeneveld PHP. Lammers AJJ, et al. Int J Infect Dis. 2020 Dec;101:283-289. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.1460. Epub 2020 Sep 29. Int J Infect Dis. 2020. PMID: 33007454 Free PMC article.

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