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Crying wolf in time of Corona: the strange case of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Is the fear of failure withholding potential life-saving treatment from clinical use?

  • Pasquale Nardelli1
  • Alberto Zangrillo1,2
  • Gabriele Sanchini1
  • Valery V Likhvantsev3,4
  • Andrey G Yavorovskiy4
  • Carolina Soledad Romero Garcia5
  • Giovanni Landoni1,2

1Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

2Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy

3Federal Research and Clinical Center of Resuscitation and Rehabilitation, Moscow, Russia

4IM Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia

5Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Consorcio Hospital General Universitario de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

DOI: 10.22514/sv.2021.043 Vol.17,Issue 3,May 2021 pp.3-4

Submitted: 26 February 2021 Accepted: 01 March 2021

Published: 08 May 2021

*Corresponding Author(s): Giovanni Landoni E-mail: landoni.giovanni@hsr.it

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Pasquale Nardelli,Alberto Zangrillo,Gabriele Sanchini,Valery V Likhvantsev,Andrey G Yavorovskiy,Carolina Soledad Romero Garcia,Giovanni Landoni. Crying wolf in time of Corona: the strange case of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. Is the fear of failure withholding potential life-saving treatment from clinical use?. Signa Vitae. 2021. 17(3);3-4.

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