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To: SeekAndFind

Hydroxychloroquine is an FDA-approved drug already.

This is a phony issue and a distraction.


54 posted on 03/22/2020 9:07:01 AM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Jim Noble

RE: Hydroxychloroquine is an FDA-approved drug already.

Not really. FDA’s stance is this -— Hydroxychloroquine has shown some promise against the coronavirus in a very small French study, but it is not federally approved to treat the COVID-19 because no official studies have been conducted to determine whether it’s both safe and effective for those sick patients.

SEE HERE:

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/politics-policy/trump-wrongly-claims-fda-approved-covid-19-drug

(EXCERPT)

But FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn walked back Trump’s remarks minutes later, clarifying that the FDA will conduct a clinical trial to determine whether chloroquine is a safe and effective coronavirus treatment and at what dosage.

“That’s a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at,” Hahn said. “We want to do that in the setting of a clinical trial, a large pragmatic clinical trial to actually gather that information and answer the question that needs to be answered.”


61 posted on 03/22/2020 9:13:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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