{"id":41239,"date":"2020-04-08T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=41239"},"modified":"2023-06-06T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:52:26","slug":"cnn-asks-sheikh-about-potential-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-patients-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cnn-asks-sheikh-about-potential-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-patients-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Consults Sheikh On the Use of Hydroxychloroquine for Patients with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41240\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 302px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2020\/04\/saira-sheikh.jpeg\" alt=\"saira-sheikh\" width=\"292\" height=\"164\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Saira Sheikh, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Experts say there isn\u2019t sufficient evidence currently to show hydroxychloroquine\u2014used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis\u2014will benefit people affected by the coronavirus. Saira Sheikh, MD, director of the UNC Rheumatology Lupus Clinic and director of the clinical trials program at UNC\u2019s Thurston Arthritis Research Center, told CNN that &#8220;hydroxychloroquine may also cause side effects and could be dangerous to otherwise healthy individuals.&#8221; She also emphasized the &#8220;need for evidence and science, not fear and anxiety to drive&#8221; decisions about usage. Access the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/05\/health\/trump-lupus-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-protection\/index.html\">on CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say there isn\u2019t sufficient evidence currently to show hydroxychloroquine\u2014used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis\u2014will benefit people affected by the coronavirus. Saira Sheikh, MD, director of the UNC Rheumatology Lupus Clinic and director of the clinical trials program at UNC\u2019s Thurston Arthritis Research Center, told CNN that &#8220;hydroxychloroquine may also cause side effects and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cnn-asks-sheikh-about-potential-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-patients-with-covid-19\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CNN Consults Sheikh On the Use of Hydroxychloroquine for Patients with COVID-19\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":41240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,103],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-41239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rheumatology","tag-629","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CNN Consults Sheikh On the Use of Hydroxychloroquine for Patients with COVID-19 | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/cnn-asks-sheikh-about-potential-use-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-patients-with-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CNN Consults Sheikh On the Use of Hydroxychloroquine for Patients with COVID-19 | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Experts say there isn\u2019t sufficient evidence currently to show hydroxychloroquine\u2014used to treat lupus and rheumatoid arthritis\u2014will benefit people affected by the coronavirus. 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