Trump Clears Way to Use Malaria Drug Against COVID-19
19th March 2020
In what he called a “game-changer or maybe not,” President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Food and Drug Administration to clear regulatory hurdles and move toward expanding use of a malaria drug to battle the coronavirus.
The drug chloroquine has shown “very, very encouraging early results,” Trump said during the daily press conference on the coronavirus disease, which health officials call COVID-19. The drug has been used to treat malaria since 1944.
“If treatments … in Europe, Japan, or other nations are known to be safe against the virus, we’ll use that information to protect the health and safety of the American people,” Trump said….
Good. I doubt that we’d get this kind of cut-through-the-red-tape action out of one of the Deep State Usual Suspects like, oh, Mitt Romney or one of the Democrat Presidential candidates.