The man who died ingesting fish tank cleaner thinking it was the drug championed by Donald Trump to beat COVID-19 has been remembered as a ‘level-headed’ engineer. Gary Lenius and his wife Wanda, both in their 60s, took chloroquine phosphate, confusing it with hydroxychloroquine, last month. Gary died and Wanda was left in critical condition after drinking the … Read more
CIA employees have been privately warned against taking an anti-malaria drug hailed by Donald Trump as a ‘game changer’ in the war on coronavirus. Sudden death is one of the suspected side effects of hydroxychloroquine, according to the intelligence agency in a memo to its workforce posted online. Despite a lack of medical evidence, the President … Read more
Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of a malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested. Chloroquine and a newer, similar drug called hydroxychloroquine, have been pushed by President Donald Trump after some early tests … Read more
A pharmaceutical firm will donate two million antimalarials to the world’s largest COVID-19 medication trial following Donald Trump’s praise of the drug. Accord Healthcare Ltd, a global medicine distributor, will supply hydroxychloroquine to 40,000 frontline healthcare workers in the COPCOV study. They will take a hydroxychloroquine tablet daily and be followed for a five-month period to … Read more
Two NHS hospitals begin using ‘game changer’ malaria drug championed by Donald Trump – amid fears of global shortages Hydroxychloroquine is used at Barts in London and the Royal Devon and Exeter Trump said the drug is a ‘game changer’ but the NHS has discouraged its use It is thought some doctors have expressed concern … Read more
Coronavirus patients in the UK have started to receive an anti-malaria drug that US President Donald Trump has labelled a ‘game-changer’. And early signs of whether a British coronavirus vaccine works – or doesn’t – may be only weeks away, a leading expert has said. Professor Sarah Gilbert said yesterday she was ’80 per cent confident’ a … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed highly unusual guidance from its website informing doctors on how to prescribe the anti-malaria drugs recommended by President Donald Trump to treat coronavirus. The medications, chloroquine and its analog hydroxychlorquine, are also used to threat arthritis and the autoimmune disorder lupus. Initially, the CDC webpage had … Read more
Doctors around the globe report that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine seems the most effective treatment they’ve tried for coronavirus patients – but less than half as many doctors are prescribing it in the US as in other hard-hit countries like Spain. A survey of 6,200 doctors around the globe reveals that while few corners of … Read more
Desperate Britons are putting their lives at risk by taking anti-malaria tablets in a ‘misguided’ attempt to fight Covid-19, experts warned last night. They dismissed claims by French researchers that the decades-old drugs could ‘cure’ patients and called a controversial study published last month that appeared to show benefits ‘deeply flawed’ and ‘dangerous’. The pills, chloroquine … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more