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A UNC research team led by Ross Boyce, MD, is conducting a randomized clinical trial on the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in preventing novel coronavirus infections in U.S. healthcare workers. The study is funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), which hosts an established network of 850,000 clinicians and hundreds of health care systems. UNC is\u00a0one of 18 sites<\/a>\u00a0participating.<\/p>\n

Hydroxychloroquine is a drug used to treat malaria, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Some successful cell studies have showed its effectiveness in treating the SARS coronavirus \u2014 a different strain of the current virus causing COVID-19 \u2014 a few years ago, according to Ross Boyce, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medicine, who is leading the study at UNC. A\u00a0paper released in\u00a0Cell Research<\/em>\u00a0in March<\/a>\u00a0provided positive results regarding the drug\u2019s effectiveness for treating the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Learn more from the UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine Newsroom<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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