Sunday, March 29, 2020

Covid-19: "FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care"

Have I mentioned that one of my physicians has a tropical medicine/infectious diseases subspecialty?
Does a lot of charity work in Africa as well as charging top buck to intrepid investor going to Katanga to look at the cobalt mine.
Pretty sharp on hepatitis. Says "Take care of your liver and it will take care of you."
Also malaria.

From Politico, March 29, 8:03 pm EDT:
The drugs have been championed by President Donald Trump for treatment despite scant evidence.

The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, decades-old malaria drugs championed by President Donald Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.
The agency allowed for the drugs to be "donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible," HHS said in a statement, announcing that Sandoz donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile and Bayer donated 1 million doses of chloroquine.

The move was supported by the White House, part of a larger Trump-backed effort to speed the use of anti-malaria drugs as a potential therapy for a virus that has no proven treatment or cure. FDA already has allowed New York state to test administering the medication to seriously ill patients, and some hospitals have added it to their treatment protocols..
"Let's see how it works," Trump said at a press briefing on Sunday, referencing New York state's efforts. "It may. It may not."..MORE
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