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FDA is fast tracking malaria drug to possibly treat coronavirus
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t could be more than a year before a COVID-19 vaccine is developed and tested to treat the current coronavirus pandemic, in the meantime doctors and scientists with the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration are looking to drugs already in use for other illnesses to possibly slow or stop the respiratory virus from spreading further.
FDA Commissioner Dr. Steve Hahn said during a White House briefing Thursday that the FDA is examining using a drug called Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, which has been used to treat malaria since 1944 and severe cases of arthritis.
Hahn said because the drug is already in use and the side affects are known it is safer. President Donald Trump put it more directly, “If things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to
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