Comparative study between the therapeutic effect of Remdesivir versus Hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19 hospitalized patients.
Maii A Shams Eldeen, Mohamed S Abdelghafar, Hoda A Ibrahim, Alshimaa Aboalsoud, Marwa S Taha
Microbes and Infectious Diseases, doi:10.21608/mid.2021.85877.1177
announced infections and about 4000 deaths were reported in more than 100 countries [1, 2] . In Egypt, the officially reported COVID-19 confirmed cases were 94,316 with 4,834 deaths on August 2020 [3] .
Conflict of interest: no conflict of interest.
Authors' Contribution All authors contributed equally to this work.
Financial disclosure This study was done as a part of the outbreak investigation conducted at Tanta University Hospitals, Egypt and supported by the Ministry of Higher Education (MHE). Patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, who were admitted to Tanta University Isolation Hospital ICU between June and September, 2020 were included.
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