Posted on 04/06/2020 3:38:33 AM PDT by cba123
Mr Trump called India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, a day after the country banned the export of hydroxychloroquine, which it manufactures in large quantities.
The two leaders are on friendly terms, and Mr Trump recently made a high-profile trip to India.
But is India really in a position to help the US? And does hydroxychloroquine even work against the coronavirus?
What is hydroxychloroquine? Hydroxychloroquine is very similar to Chloroquine, one of the oldest and best-known anti-malarial drugs.
But the drug - which can also treat auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus - has also attracted attention over the past few decades as a potential antiviral agent.
President Trump said that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved it for treating coronavirus, something the organization has denied. Mr Trump later said that it had been approved for "compassionate use" - which means a doctor can give a drug that is yet to be cleared by the government to a patient in a life-threatening condition.
Doctors are able to prescribe chloroquine in these circumstances as it's a registered drug.
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1) Yes, they can meet in the middle.
2) The leftwing DOLTS (yes even at the BBC) should simply shut up.
Leftist DOLTS.
H1B frictions aside, they will prove to be a more reliable partner than China ever was.
Sorry I got a bit frustrated with the ubiquitous leftwing media bias.
Didn’t actually intend to call them dolts, twice.
:)
Bone heads, commies, a$$ wipes are all acceptable.
I thought a company in the US was ramping up production of this drug here our country. What happened to that?
Let every voice cry out, “I want my Trump pills!”
India just shut down all exports of the drug.
I know.
That was what got Trump involved. There is some belief, that President Trump, and Prime Minister Modi might just adjust that.
We have had the capability to synthesize Quinine, the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) since 1970.
However, the bark of the Cinchona tree remains the principal source of Quinine as it is cheap and widely available.
It grows wild throughout the tropical Andean forests of western South America.
It is naturalized in Central America, Jamaica, French Polynesia, Sulawesi, the islands of Saint Helena, Sao Tome, and Principe.
It is cultivated in India and Java.
Like Cinnamon, the bark is harvested without having to kill the trees.
The world is NOT going to run out of Quinine.
Baldwin77 wrote:
“I thought a company in the US was ramping up production of this drug here our country. What happened to that?”
Mylan, in West Virginia.
They’re still on it, ramping up production.
Bookmarked!
50 million doses by mid April from Mylan in W. Virginia.
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