NEW YORK (NYTIMES, BLOOMBERG) - President Donald Trump has said that the federal government is placing millions of doses of a malaria drug in the federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies to make it available for coronavirus patients, even though the drug has not been approved for Covid-19 treatment and his top coronavirus advisers have warned that more study is needed to determine its safety and efficacy.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump has said that the federal government is placing millions of doses of a malaria drug in the federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies to make it available for coronavirus patients, even though the drug has not been approved for Covid-19 treatment and his top coronavirus advisers have warned that more study is needed to determine its safety and efficacy.
"The other thing, if you have a heart condition, I understand, probably you stay away from the Z-Pak. But that's an antibiotic. It can clean out the lung. The lungs are a point of attack for this horrible virus." A more recent study from China was conducted more carefully than the earlier ones, and found that the drug did help, but the study was small, included only mildly ill patients and its authors said more research was needed.
At the Saturday briefing, Dr Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the FDA, said the agency had given special permission for imported hydroxychloroquine to be used in the US, in part to make sure that there would be enough for patients who need it for chronic diseases like lupus.
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