Fact check: President Trump claims 'normal life will return soon.' Doctors and scientists caution otherwise.
"The hydroxychloroquine and the Z-pack, I think, as a combination, probably, it's looking very, very good," Trump claimed Monday. He called the pair of medicines a"drug that got approved in record-setting time."
There's anecdotal evidence that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — decades-old drugs used to prevent malaria and treat rheumatic diseases — might help patients fight off the virus, particularly when paired with the antibiotic azithromycin, commonly known as a Z-Pack. But it's not an"approved" treatment for coronavirus, according to the Food and Drug Administration, or even a fully vetted option.
"The information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal. It was not done in a controlled clinical trial. So you really can't make any definitive statement about it," Fauci said Friday. Last week, Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the FDA, said the agency wants"a large, pragmatic clinical trial" to see whether the drug"actually benefits patients."
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