Lupus medication hydroxychloroquine is being tested in clinical trials as a treatment for coronavirus.
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susceptible to coronavirus, before adding, “maybe that's correct, maybe it's false, you’re going to have to check it out.
Trump said Saturday that hydroxychloroquine, a drug used to treat lupus, “could be a game changer” in treating coronavirus, which so far has no known cure.called chloroquine and is effective in treating autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Trump seemed to infer that people with lupus were not becoming infected with coronavirus because they were already taking hydroxychloroquine for lupus.
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