How to Use chloroquine in a Sentence

chloroquine

noun
Definition of chloroquinenext
  • That trial will test the same drugs, with the exception of chloroquine.
    — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 22 Mar. 2020
  • In mid-May, when Bright testified to Congress, there was a partisan push to defend the use of chloroquine.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 June 2020
  • Trump took heat from critics after a man in Arizona died after drinking a form of chloroquine used to clean fish tanks.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, Washington Examiner, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The researchers did get a reaction from one compound, chloroquine, that tastes bitter to human.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
  • White warned, too loudly some say, that the loss of artemisinin could cause a repeat of the chloroquine disaster of the 1980s, when resistant parasites spread from the Greater Mekong to Africa and millions died.
    — Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, 11 Oct. 2017
  • There’s now a wealth of evidence that the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine did not work against Covid.
    — New York Times, 30 Jan. 2021
  • This weekend Brooks cared for a man in his 60s who died after ingesting a version of chloroquine commonly used to clean fish tanks.
    — David Armstrong, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2020
  • The man and his wife, who was in critical condition, ingested the wrong type of chloroquine, instead taking the kind used to clean fish tanks and not the anti-malaria drug.
    — Asia Ewart, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2020
  • After the war, chloroquine was so widely used that parasites grew resistant to it.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The chloroquine phosphate that this Phoenix resident gulped down sterilizes fish tanks.
    — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 7 Apr. 2020
  • And in Arizona, a man died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate to guard against the coronavirus.
    — Lev Facher, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The drug known chemically as chloroquine has been available for decades to treat the mosquito-borne illness malaria.
    — Jamie Hutt, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
  • There isn't enough data to prove hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine were safe or efficient for children and teens, the group said.
    — Rodrigo Pedroso, Tatiana Arias, and Rob Picheta, CNN, 16 June 2020
  • One of the more unorthodox remedies being tested against the coronavirus in China is chloroquine.
    — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have been used with mixed results, since those drugs can cause heart problems in some patients.
    — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 5 May 2020
  • Concerns about the health risks of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were based on evidence beyond the Lancet paper.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 June 2020
  • The agency now says hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing Covid19.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 30 Sep. 2020
  • There's also no reason to believe that Fauci was familiar with the study on chloroquine published in the Virology Journal in 2005.
    — Camille Caldera, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2020
  • But the president is perhaps best known for his early and ardent embrace of the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
    — Jonathan Lemire and Mike Stobbe, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2020
  • But the president is perhaps best known for his early and ardent embrace of the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine.
    — Author: Jonathan Lamire and Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Aug. 2020
  • He, ultimately, credits his recovery to chloroquine and his daughter, Erin, pushing him to quit smoking three years ago.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, Indianapolis Star, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The drug is a single dose of tafenoquine (brand name Kozenis), administered along with the traditional chloroquine treatment.
    — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Nelson Teich stepped down as health minister Friday after Bolosnaro pushed to lift lockdown measures and the widespread use of the drug chloroquine to treat the virus without further testing.
    — Fox News, 18 May 2020
  • Garcez and her collaborators found recently that the malaria drug chloroquine helps limit viral growth in cells.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 July 2016
  • Trump last week falsely stated that the Food and Drug Administration had just approved the use of chloroquine to treat patients infected with coronavirus.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The announcement from the agency is the latest blow to the hopes that hydroxychloroquine, as well as the related drug chloroquine, could provide patients an option at a time when there are too few treatments available for the virus.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 17 June 2020
  • These are known possible side effects of chloroquine, Medline Plus explains, but nausea and muscle aches can also be symptoms of the coronavirus.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Hydroxychloroquine and a similar drug, chloroquine, have been the subject of much debate since Trump started promoting them in March.
    — CBS News, 4 June 2020
  • One study found that Covid-19 patients treated with the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were more likely to die or suffer dangerous side effects.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 June 2020
  • Those include hydroxychloroquine, used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, and chloroquine, used to treat malaria.
    — Alyssa Jung, Good Housekeeping, 2 Oct. 2020

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