Hydroxychloroquine plus personal protective equipment versus personal protective equipment alone for the prevention of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infections among healthcare workers: a multicentre, parallel-group randomised controlled trial from India

• Rohina Joshi,
• Sudha Vidyasagar,
• Niveditha Devasenapathy,
• Rinaldo Bellomo,
• Vivekanand Jha,
• Chirag Patel,
• Vijay Kumar,
• Lachlan Donaldson,
• Oommen John,
• Balasubramanian Venkatesh,
• Michael John,
• Naomi Hammond,
• Jeyaraj Pandian,
• Ashwani Kumar,
• Arpita Ghosh,
• S Radhakrishnan,
• Rajib Paul,
• Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan,
• Dorrilyn Rajbhandari,
• Sheila Nainan Myatra,
• Amritendu Bhattacharya,
• Sumaiya Arfin,
• Abhinav Bassi,
• Lachlan Hugh Donaldson,
• Naomi E Hammond,
• Mallikarjuna Kunigari,
• Cynthia Amrutha,
• Syed Haider Mehdi Husaini,
• Subir Ghosh,
• Santosh Kumar Nag,
• Hari Krishnan Selvaraj,
• Viny Kantroo,
• Kamal D Shah,
• Sheila Myatra,
• Amritendu Battacharya,
• Pavan Kumar Vecham,
• Evangeline Elvira,
• Gomathi Parthasarathy,
• Archana Ragunathan,
• Gnanavel Rajendra Kunjurao,
• Pavithra Sampath Kumar,
• Hilda Nirmala Kumari,
• Jayanthi Swaminathan,
• Murshid Cheriyeri Peediyekkal,
• Arun Chander Yadav,
• Aarthi Venkatramanan,
• Cynthia Amrutha Sukumar,
• Dharini Prasad,
• Krishnanda Nayak,
• Ravindra Prabhu,
• Rohini Bilagi,
• Akash Bhange,
• Bhumika Patel,
• Ekta Ramchandani,
• Jinesh Patel,
• Krupa Gandhi,
• N Prathyusha,
• Rayshma Rao Bonshlay Lakshmanan,
• S Hari Krishnan,
• Abhishek George Mehta,
• Mousumi Pradhan,
• Syed Haider Mehdi Husaini,
• Shahid Ali Siddique,
• Naved-ur Rahman,
• Mohammad Jamalludeen,
• Mounika Amarneni,
• Suresh Sankar,
• Vidya Rajesh Joshi,
• Alka Yadav,
• Nikhil Modi,
• Rinku Dahiya,
• Serena Knowles,
• Nikita Bathla,
• Fatima Butt

Affiliations

Rohina Joshi

The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, India

Sudha Vidyasagar

Department of Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

Niveditha Devasenapathy

Indian Institute of Public Health - Delhi, Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

Rinaldo Bellomo

3 Department of Intensive Care, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia

Vivekanand Jha

executive director

Chirag Patel

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Vijay Kumar

1 Centre for Perinatal Neuroscience, Brain Sciences Department, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK

Lachlan Donaldson

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Oommen John

The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, New Delhi, India

Balasubramanian Venkatesh

The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Michael John

Dept of Paediatric Surgery, Queen`s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK

Naomi Hammond

George Institute for Global Health, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

Jeyaraj Pandian

143 Neurology, Christian Medical College and Hospital Ludhiana, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Ashwani Kumar

From the *Department of Internal Medicine, and †Division of Cardiology, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX.

Arpita Ghosh

Public Health Foundation of India, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi, India

S Radhakrishnan

1Gastroenterology, Whipps Cross Hospital, London, UK

Rajib Paul

4 Department of Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan

Critical Care, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Dorrilyn Rajbhandari

The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Sheila Nainan Myatra

Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Amritendu Bhattacharya

The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Sumaiya Arfin

The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Abhinav Bassi

The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Lachlan Hugh Donaldson

The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Naomi E Hammond

Critical Care, The George Institute for Global Health, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Mallikarjuna Kunigari

The George Institute for Global Health, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Cynthia Amrutha

Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Syed Haider Mehdi Husaini

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Subir Ghosh

Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Santosh Kumar Nag

Christian Hospital, Nabarangpur, Odisha, India

Hari Krishnan Selvaraj

Apollo Hospitals, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Viny Kantroo

Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Kamal D Shah

NephroPlus Health Services, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Sheila Myatra

Amritendu Battacharya

Pavan Kumar Vecham

Evangeline Elvira

Gomathi Parthasarathy

Archana Ragunathan

Gnanavel Rajendra Kunjurao

Pavithra Sampath Kumar

Hilda Nirmala Kumari

Jayanthi Swaminathan

Murshid Cheriyeri Peediyekkal

Arun Chander Yadav

Aarthi Venkatramanan

Cynthia Amrutha Sukumar

Dharini Prasad

Krishnanda Nayak

Ravindra Prabhu

Rohini Bilagi

Akash Bhange

Bhumika Patel

Ekta Ramchandani

Jinesh Patel

Krupa Gandhi

N Prathyusha

Rayshma Rao Bonshlay Lakshmanan

S Hari Krishnan

Abhishek George Mehta

Mousumi Pradhan

Syed Haider Mehdi Husaini

Shahid Ali Siddique

Naved-ur Rahman

Mohammad Jamalludeen

Mounika Amarneni

Suresh Sankar

Vidya Rajesh Joshi

Alka Yadav

Nikhil Modi

Rinku Dahiya

Serena Knowles

Nikita Bathla

Fatima Butt