Fact check: President Trump claimed the Food and Drug Administration had approved the 'very powerful' drug chloroquine to treat coronavirus. But chloroquine has not been approved by the FDA to treat the coronavirus -- and nor has any other drug.
Washington President Donald Trump claimed during a White House briefing on Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the"very powerful" drug chloroquine to treat coronavirus.
Chloroquine is used to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis."It's shown very encouraging -- very, very encouraging early results. And we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that's where the FDA has been so great. They -- they've gone through the approval process; it's been approved. And they did it -- they took it down from many, many months to immediate.
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