U.S. FDA revokes emergency use of malaria drugs Trump promoted as COVID-19 treatment
the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the coronavirus. Citing reports of heart complications, the FDA said the drugs' unproven benefits "do not outweigh the known and potential risks."
"There has never been any high-quality evidence suggesting that hyrdoxychloroquine is effective" for treating or preventing coronavirus infection, he said, but there is evidence of serious side effects. Trump aggressively pushed the drug beginning in the first weeks of the outbreak and stunned medical professionals when he revealed he took the drug preemptively against infection.
The FDA granted emergency use of the drugs for coronavirus patients in late March at the same time the U.S. government accepted 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine that had been donated by two foreign drug manufacturers. Millions of those doses were shipped to U.S. hospitals to treat patient who weren't enrolled in clinical trials.
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