Inefficacious drugs against covid-19: analysis of sales, tweets, and search engines

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE Assess the correlation between the sales of two drugs with no proven efficacy against covid-19, ivermectin and chloroquine, and other relevant variables, such as Google® searches, number of tweets related to these drugs, number of cases and deaths resulting from covid-19. METHO...

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Main Authors: Irineu de Brito Junior, Flaviane Azevedo Saraiva, Nathan de Campos Bruno, Roberto Fray da Silva, Celso Mitsuo Hino, Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2024-02-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102024000100205&lng=en&tlng=en