FOX 29's Jennifer Joyce reports. Excitement about treating the new coronavirus with malaria drugs is raising hopes, including with President Donald Trump.

But the evidence that they may help is thin, and a run on the drugs is complicating access for people who need them for rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.

Chloroquine and a similar drug, hydroxychloroquine, showed encouraging signs in small, early tests against the coronavirus. But the drugs have major side effects, one reason scientists don't want to give them without evidence of their value, even Yet those preliminary studies Some French doctors and politicians also are pushing to expand hydroxychloroquine's use.

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Coronavirus 'worse than 9/11' as it kills one every 9 minutes in New York

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Coronavirus: Trump weighs tri-state quarantine as N.Y. postpones its presidential primary

As coronavirus cases kept rising in the national epicenter of New York, U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he is considering a quarantine affecting residents of the state and neighbouring New Jersey and Connecticut.

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Coronavirus outbreak: Trump says USNS Comfort will treat patients not infected with COVID-19

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that the staff onboard the USNS Comfort, a U.S.

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US coronavirus cases surge past 115,000; Donald Trump mulls New York quarantine

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Blasts Trump-Led Government Response To Coronavirus As ‘Staggeringly Incompetent’

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U.S. Navy hospital ship heading to NYC for coronavirus aid

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President Trump signs 2 trillion dollar recovery plan as US coronavirus cases soar

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Trump tells Pence to not call states critical of federal COVID-19 response

After days of desperate pleas from the nation’s governors, U.S. President Donald Trump took a round of steps Friday to expand the federal government’s role in helping produce critically needed supplies to fight the coronavirus pandemic even as he warned the leaders of hard-hit states not to cross him.

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US overtakes China with largest number of coronavirus cases

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Coronavirus outbreak: Trudeau says it’s in both Canada, U.S. interests to keep border ‘un-militarized’

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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