White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday acknowledged that members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus outbreak clashed over ...
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro listens to a news conference about a presidential executive order relating to military veterans outside of the West Wing of the White House in Washington, U.S. March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Leah MillisWASHINGTON: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Monday acknowledged that members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus outbreak clashed over the weekend about the efficacy of a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, for use against the disease.
"There was that discussion on Saturday," Navarro said in an interview with CNN."If we didn't have disagreements and debate the Trump administration would not be as strong as it is." Trump has made his opinion on the drug well known and personally pressed federal health officials to make them available to treat coronavirus, two sources have told Reuters.The president has repeatedly pushed the drug as a potential treatment, most recently on Sunday, adding"But what do I know? I'm not a doctor."
At Saturday's meeting of the task force, Navarro told CNN,"there was unanimous agreement that FEMA would immediately begin surging hydroxy into the hot zones to be dispensed only between a doctor and a patient decision not the federal government." He said there were 29 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine sitting in a warehouse.
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