Tag: #chloroquine

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São Paulo police exempt Prevent Senior from pandemic death liability

2 years ago • Ana Ferraz

hydroxychloroquine President Jair Bolsonaro (right) next to Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga. Photo: Alan Santos/PR

Bolsonaro has silently given up on hydroxychloroquine

President Bolsonaro continues to bang the hydroxychloroquine drum, but is no longer putting the government's money where his mouth is

2 years ago • Amanda Audi

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Covid inquiry yet to grill senator and ‘chloroquine brothers’ on ineffective drug scandal

A case revealed by The Brazilian Report is among the stones left unturned by the Senate’s Covid hearings committee

3 years ago • Amanda Audi

Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga during a ceremony at the presidential palace. Photo: Frederico Brasil/Futura Press/Folhapress

Chloroquine could see a third Brazilian Health Minister fired

Marcelo Queiroga already lacked his staff’s backing, having fallen in with President Bolsonaro's Covid-19 denialism. But now, he may have lost his boss’s support too

3 years ago • André Spigariol

prevent senior ANS Chairman Paulo Rebello Filho arrives at the Senate for his deposition in front of the Covid hearings. Photo: Edilson Rodrigues/SF/CC-BY 4.0

Private health agency to intervene in Prevent Senior

3 years ago • André Spigariol

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Brazil’s medicine council sued for allowing chloroquine use

3 years ago • Ana Ferraz

Brazil's own Tuskegee Study

Explaining Brazil #171: Brazil’s own Tuskegee Study

Between the 1930s and the 1970s, hundreds of black men were unknowingly used as subjects in an American syphilis study. In 2020, a Brazilian HMO allegedly used elderly citizens for Covid experiments without their knowledge or consent

3 years ago • Gustavo Ribeiro

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The ‘Chloroquine Brothers’ behind government-backed trials on unproven Covid drugs

Evidence shows that two major HMOs are continuing to distribute unproven coronavirus treatments to patients, often putting pressure on doctors to prescribe ineffective drugs

3 years ago • Amanda Audi