A small study done in China has claimed the malaria drug chloroquine can help coronavirus patients recover quicker. Doctors in Renmin Hospital, Wuhan, gave 31 coronavirus patients hydroxychloroquine for five days and treated another 31 with normal therapy. Pneumonia infections improved in 25 per cent more patients in the chloroquine group when compared to those … Read more
Drug maker Amneal Pharmaceuticals is donating 400,00 tablets of the unproven malaria drug that President Donald Trump has dubbed a ‘gift from God’ to Louisiana to help fight the state’s coronavirus crisis, the state attorney general said Tuesday. The drug, hydroxychloroquine, was given emergency FDA approval Monday, and the Trump administration plans to distribute millions … Read more
The unproven claim that an antimalarial drug can cure coronavirus – called a ‘game-changer’ and a ‘gift from God’ by Donald Trump – has been promoted by a crypto-currency lawyer who has made a string of bogus claims, DailyMail.com can reveal. Gregory Rigano made a series of Fox News and conservative and Christian radio appearances … Read more
The malaria drug that President Donald Trump has hailed as a ‘game-changer’ for treating coronavirus may be no better for treating the virus than standard care like being placed on a ventilator, a Chinese study found. Clinical trials of the drug, hydroxychloroquine, began in New York on Tuesday, and US doctors can now prescribe it … Read more
Dr. Tony Fauci said on Saturday that President Donald Trump was ‘talking about hope’ when he bragged that malaria drugs could be a ‘gift from god’ to cure the coronavirus and not whether the medication ‘actually works.’ ‘The president is talking about hope for people and it’s not an unreasonable thing to hope for people,’ … Read more
A London barista died of malaria after failing to get through to 111 six times over two days due to the volume of coronavirus-related calls before waiting nearly an hour and a half for an ambulance as his sister begged the 999 operator for help. Davide Saporito, 28, who had returned from a holiday in … Read more
Doctor behind Minnesota clinical trial for malaria drug that could potentially prevent coronavirus spread makes TV appeal to get 1,500 who have been exposed to COVID-19 to sign up Dr. David Boulware told Good Morning America that he had 150 out of the 1,500 people he needs for the trial He wants people who do … Read more
President Donald Trump told reporters the nation has ordered ‘millions’ of units of the drug ‘cloroquine’ that he said he has a ‘feeling’ will be effective against the coronavirus. ‘We ordered them. We have millions of units ordered,’ Trump said, name checking the German manufacturer Bayer, which he called a ‘great company.’ ‘Millions of units … Read more