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[Artigo] COVID-19 – Discharge 32020
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[Artigo] Chloroquine (All Populations Monograph)
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Recent publications have brought attention to the possible benefit of chloroquine, a broadly used antimalarial drug, in the treatment of patients infected by the novel emerged coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (Colson et al., 2020; Gao et al., 2020). The scientific community should
