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Questions About Hydroxychloroquine, Touted As A COVID-19 Treatment

Dr. Jinoos Yazdany, a rheumatologist from the University of California, San Francisco, and NPR science correspondent Joe Palca answer questions about the drug hydroxychloroquine.

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Corrected: April 7, 2020 at 11:00 PM CDT
A previous version of the Web summary for this story misspelled Dr. Jinoos Yazdany's last name as Yazdanya.
Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR.