Novartis CEO says Malaria drug is biggest hope against coronavirus (Hydroxychloroquine)

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ZURICH (Reuters) - Novartis Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan said his Sandoz generics unit's malaria, lupus and arthritis drug hydroxychloroquine is the company's biggest hope against the coronavirus, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported on Sunday.

Novartis has pledged to donate 130 million doses and is supporting clinical trials needed before the medicine, which U.S. President Donald Trump also has been promoting, can be approved for use against the coronavirus.

Other companies including Bayer and Teva have also agreed to donate hydroxychloroquine or similar drugs, while Gilead Sciences is testing its experimental drug remdesivir against coronavirus.

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Novartis Chairman, now says Hydroxychloroquine may be a good treatment.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/novartis-ceo-says-malaria-drug-072752054.html

[snarkytart]

WOW Who said this over a week ago and was made fun of in the media?

I can’t remember. Anyone want to remind me?

[Texas Eagle]

Dr. Trump.

[MHGinTN]

Eat foods rich in zinc, like potatoes,if you end up taking HCQ, even if taking the Axithromucin, too.

[BipolarBob]

What does he know about it? What do the governors of Wisconsin and Colorado think about it?

[ironman]

#TrumpPills

[Chaguito]

...and withholding donation until trials are run to get FDA approval. (around 2nd qtr 2021)

[Calvin Cooledge]

FDA today gave approval. Someone should post an article about that. I don’t know how.

[bray]

It is getting close to unanimous this drug is effective. Why not go with anything that works.

[mmichaels1970]

This one?

FDA issues emergency authorization of anti-malaria drug for coronavirus care

I tried posting the article but FR rejected Politico (I don’t blame it)

The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, decades-old malaria drugs championed by President Donald Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.

The agency allowed for the drugs to be "donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible," HHS said in a statement, announcing that Sandoz donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile and Bayer donated 1 million doses of chloroquine.

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I just did, but it was posted by Politico, so it is under Miscellaneous.

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[Sarah Barracuda]

And whose been saying for over a WEEK that these drugs can work, President Donald Trump but hey commie media, he was just peddling false hope right..right

[SunkenCiv]

• Novartis CEO: Malaria drug is biggest hope against coronavirus - SonntagsZeitung

[Bayard]

Dr Trump just saved the world from Chinavirus.

[TChad]

So evil big pharma is donating 130 million doses of the drug that evil big pharma is trying to block because it will not make them enough money.

Got it.

[jhw61]

“Dr Trump just saved the world from Chinavirus”

emphatic YES!

[Eagles6]

Yeah, but he had 2 scoops of ice cream!

[Herakles]

You know, with machine that detects infection in minutes, and a treatment that actually works, this pandemic may be over before it gets started.

I’m very positive about this.

The next step is a vaccine that is currently in trials.

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Yep, there must be some kind of catch.

For those who don’t know Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan, he is one impressive individual. If we could afford him, he would be a great HHS Sec, but we probably can’t. Novartis also has a vaccine candidate in testing, but unlike a proven 7 decade old drug, a vaccine will take a real trial, and at least a year.