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Anti-malaria drug being tested as potential coronavirus treatment
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that an anti-malaria drug known as chloroquine could be a game-changer in the treatment of coronavirus. “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA has been so great.
They’ve gone through the approval process, it’s been approved. And they took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states,” Trump said during a press conference.
However, the FDA quickly corrected the president in a statement, saying that while it is approved for malaria and several other ailments, it has not yet been approved for the widespread treatment of COVID-19.
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