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- President Trump has boosted the drug chloroquine, which is used to treat malaria, as a potential treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.
- The FDA has not approved it as a treatment for the coronavirus, though doctors in the US have wide latitude to prescribe drugs for diseases they're not approved to treat.
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Trump's top infectious-disease expert, on Friday stressed the need for clinical study of chloroquine's use for COVID-19.
- Trump jumped in shortly after and said he was a "big fan" of using chloroquine and that he "comes from a very positive school when it comes to, in particular, one of these drugs."
- He did acknowledge the need to "see how it works out."
- Fauci repeatedly had to stress the need for clinical testing and the lack of definitive proof for the treatment during the briefing.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted a decades-old malaria drug as a promising coronavirus treatment, undercutting his own top infectious-disease expert.
At press briefings and on Twitter, he's been playing up the promise of chloroquine and a related pill called hydrochloroquine, drugs that treat malaria but have not yet been rigorously tested and approved for treating the coronavirus.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: A law professor weighs in on how Trump could beat impeachment See Also: SEE ALSO: A malaria pill from the 1940s has caught the eyes of doctors, analysts, and even Elon Musk as a potential coronavirus treatment
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