Beneficial effects exerted by hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients via protecting multiple organs

摘要

Dear Editor.The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic caused by widespread infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2)(Chen et al.,2020;Guan et al.,2020)has led to a global health crisis.More than 3.5 million infections and 246,838 deaths have occurred as of May 4,2020(Saqrane and El Mhammedi,2020),with a rapid upward trend.Many CO VID-19 patients suffer from complicated systemic injuries such as cardiac(Chen et al.,2020)and hepatic(Huang et al.,2020)damages.