Chloroquine and hydroxycloroquine got the Food and Drug Administration's go-ahead to be put in the nation's strategic storehouses. But the drugs haven't been approved to treat coronavirus patients.
The Food and Drug Administration has authorized two malaria — chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — to be added to the national emergency stockpile for use in responding to COVID-19.Photo Illustration by John Phillips/Getty Images
two malaria drugs"emergency use authorization" for the treatment of COVID-19. The move makes it easier to add the medicines to the strategic stockpile, which can be drawn upon in the current public health emergency. But gold standard clinical trials in the United States only just got underway. Preliminary results from those studies aren't expected for weeks or months.
"This is not FDA approval of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19," says epidemiologistwho is leading Massachusetts General Hospital's COVID-19 treatment task force."There's an epidemic of misinformation out there, and we need to combat that."
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