Infectious disease specialists say Trump's claims about the drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, may be a bit premature.
believing it would protect him from the coronavirus. His wife also took some and is in critical condition, according to NBC News. The toxic ingredient they consumed was not the medication form of chloroquine, used to treat malaria in humans. Instead, it was an ingredient listed on a parasite treatment for fish.President Trump talked about the potential benefits of chloroquineThere have also been reports of people stockpiling the drugs, which are needed to treat Lupus and other diseases.
Without a formal trial, it's difficult for doctors to tell whether the drug is actually working or whether a patient is improving from a strong placebo effect, said Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.Chloroquine is a decades-old drug that was approved by the FDA in 1949 to treat malaria. Its derivative, called hydroxychloroquine, is often used by doctors to treat rheumatoid arthritis and lupus in patients.
"It's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results," Trump told reporters. "And we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately." Hahn said it was "important not to provide false hope," minutes after Trump said he felt good about the drug.
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